After witnessing the deaths of his wife and daughter in the middle of bombings in El Fasher, AM* set out on a grueling journey toward Tawila, 60 kilometres away, on Oct. 27. He and his remaining family members spent four agonizing days walking on foot, in which they endured torture, beatings and robbery. Along the way, in the village of Garni, he had to bury his niece, a young girl who […]
Read More… from Sudan: Desperate conditions and accounts of mass violence in North Darfur
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is mourning the death of a Ministry of Health (MoH) colleague at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur on Nov. 18. We call once again for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to guarantee the protection of health facilities and staff. MSF extends our deepest condolences to the family of the MoH stretcher-bearer who was killed in the shooting outside Zalingei hospital, which also left four people wounded. […]
Mighty desert, mighty rivers, The flow of life in the heat of passions The depths of the message are hard to reach Standing still in the action The sands and the waters are speaking the same language We are at the crossroad of space and time The hardest is to face what is The tears […]
Read More… from Sudan: The war on people, the choice is ours
As starving people continue to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing critical care to people who have reached the town of Tawila. Here, MSF is witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition, in what is now the most severe example of a […]
Read More… from Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in Sudan’s protracted crisis
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the Canadian government’s plan to reduce funding for international assistance and global health programs – especially at a time when more people than ever need urgent medical and humanitarian support. In our programs around the world, we’ve already seen first-hand how other recent cuts to […]
Read More… from MSF statement on Canada’s 2025 Federal Budget: Cuts to global aid will cost lives
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the horrendous mass atrocities and killings, both indiscriminate and ethnically-targeted, that have culminated this week in and around El Fasher. We reiterate our fear that large numbers of people remain in grave danger and are being prevented by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies from reaching […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appeals for civilians’ lives to be spared in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, and for them to be allowed to flee to safer areas. Given the ethnic-based violence spiking across Darfur for over two years, and the large-scale massacres committed in Zamzam camp for internally […]
Read More… from Sudan: Civilians must be spared in El Fasher
Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported health facilities across North, Central and South Darfur in Sudan on Sep. 10. Four people across the facilities were declared dead on arrival. […]
Read More… from Sudan: Darfur hospitals receive nearly 100 wounded people in one day
I am Majda Rizq, a Sudanese woman filled with compassion for my country. I grew up surrounded by my large family in Sudan, where I learned, worked, married and established my own family. Looking back, it feels as though the life I once knew and the memories I made over decades are a distant dream […]
I’ve just returned home to Canada after several months working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan, a country facing one of the most urgent and underreported humanitarian crises in the world right now. Since the start of the war in April 2023, the UN estimates that more than 13 million people have been […]
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