Sudan: Children in urgent need of immunization as a measles outbreak spreads in Darfur

Outbreaks of measles have spread widely across Sudan’s Darfur region over the past year, affecting people in many communities where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are treating patients. While massive vaccination campaigns are finally ongoing in several locations across the region, efforts must be increased to catch up on the immunization of children who have never been […]

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Sudan: MSF report reveals stark lack of protection and assistance in South Darfur

Violence, insecurity and hunger are devastating people’s lives in South Darfur, Sudan, according to a new Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report.  The report, “Voices from South Darfur”, illustrates in vivid testimony how the impact of pervasive violence, a healthcare system in ruins and an inadequate international response have all combined to push people’s […]

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Chad: MSF calls for urgent aid to support Sudanese refugees

In the Tine transit camp and the nearby refugee camps in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up assistance to newly arrived refugees from Sudan. They are fleeing escalating attacks and violence in North Darfur. Since the end of April, an estimated 40,000 refugees, the vast […]

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Chad: Refuges from Sudan face dangerous journey in search of safety

Bakboula Mamat Issa is one of 57,000 Sudanese people who managed to cross into Chad in the last three weeks. She fled El Fasher with her six children, who are between two and 14 years old. “I used to cultivate the land for a living. We ran for our lives leaving everything behind when armed […]

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Sudan: “They beat us and they raped us right there on the road in public”

Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal. Yet all the survivors who speak with MSF […]

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Sudan: Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed

Exactly two years after MSF first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching Hospital, the team is again scaling up activities to help meet immense medical needs in partnership with the Ministry of Health. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. MSF’s initial focus will be the very worrying and […]

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Sudan: Thousands of displaced people struggle weeks after deadly attack on Zamzam camp

Three weeks on from the large-scale ground offensive by the Rapid Support Forces on Zamzam camp in early April 2025, reports of intensified fighting in El Fasher continue and more displaced people are arriving in Tawila, North Darfur. With Zamzam camp having been classified as facing famine in August 2024 and many people having been […]

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Sudan: Malnutrition crisis in South Darfur, dire situation for people most at risk

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has not only devastated health structures but has also severely compromised food security, leaving millions of people in danger, particularly in conflict-affected areas such as South Darfur. Among those enduring the most in this crisis are internally displaced persons, many of whom are struggling to secure even the most basic […]

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Sudan: MSF urges lifting of siege on Zamzam camp, delivery of assistance and protection of civilians

Following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) large-scale ground offensive on Zamzam camp that started on April 11, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the communities already besieged and deprived of lifesaving assistance in El Fasher, the neighbouring capital city of North Darfur.   In Tawila, further west, overwhelmed Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams […]

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Sudan’s two years of war

As the war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year, people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care and basic vital services. Sixty per cent of the country’s 50 million people need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations (UN), and […]

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