With violence intensifying in South Sudan, more than 33,000 refugees have fled to northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency intervention to provide essential medical care to a community facing crisis. “We saw people shooting guns,” says Blessing Halima, a refugee from Morobo County, in […]
“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing,” a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), documents the horrors witnessed by MSF staff at two clinics in Gaza that regularly received mass influxes of casualties following violence at sites run by the GHF, an Israeli-US proxy that has militarized food distribution. An analysis […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all operational activities in Yei River and Morobo counties in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State for a minimum of six weeks. This decision follows the abduction of an MSF staff member, occurring just four days after the abduction of a health ministry staff member from an MSF […]
A data analysis on more than two hundred thousand Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) consultations from 2024 in six health structures finds that 83 per cent of the wound-care consultations for survivors of violence are caused by explosive weapons: bombs and grenades, published in the Lancet. These weapons were designed to be used in […]
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Every week, hundreds of survivors of sexual violence seek care at health centres supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2024 alone, nearly 40,000 women were treated by MSF teams in North Kivu province — a record high. In January 2025, after years of fighting […]
On Thursday, July 24, I tried to go to Zikim to get flour. I waited there all night, but I got nothing. On Friday, I decided to try again. My father did not want me to go because last time I went, I saw many dead people from the shelling and shooting from tanks. But we […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the abduction of a Ministry of Health (MoH) staff member from an MSF ambulance in South Sudan’s Morobo County, Central Equatoria State, at around 10:00 a.m. on July 25. Although the staff member was released unharmed on July 26, this incident further highlights the growing violence against healthcare […]
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Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and healthcare workers themselves now fighting to survive, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. MSF staff are receiving an increasing number of malnourished patients at our clinics, while they themselves struggle to find sufficient food. Across screenings […]
At Jahun general hospital in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provide reconstructive surgery, mental health care and rehabilitation for women with obstetric fistulas. Around 300 women benefit from these services every year. “We don’t see fistulas in [high income] countries because there’s access to cesarean sections or suction cups, but here in […]
What better return on investment is there than supporting lifesaving services for people affected by humanitarian crises? For Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this is a rhetorical question, as we prepare our pre-budget submission to the Government of Canada before they determine their priorities for the 2026 federal budget. Inside, we, highlight the importance […]
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