On June 1, 2020, a new Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was declared in Équateur province, western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s eleventh recorded epidemic. Declared while DRC was still grappling with the tenth Ebola epidemic in the country’s northeast, and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new Ebola outbreak has already spread to […]
Read More… from DRC: Responding to the new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province
More than 2,000 asylum seekers sheltering in a camp in Matamoros, at the Mexican border with Texas, are now dealing with even more fear and uncertainty as the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Mexico and the government fails to take decisive action. These people are living in tents packed closely together, unable to practice social distancing and with […]
Read More… from Mexico: Asylum seekers stranded in Matamoros tent camp face threat of COVID-19
The two centres are housed in Tamaulipas State University basketball gymnasiums.
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Read More… from COVID-19 in Mexico: MSF opens two centres in Reynosa & Matamoros
“Spending our lives in the camps is difficult; the area is small and there is no space for the children to play,” says Abu Siddik. He lives in one of the camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of south-eastern Bangladesh, where around 860,000 Rohingya refugees are crammed into just 26 square kilometres (km) of land. […]
Read More… from Living in limbo: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh three years after the main exodus
Welcome to the August 2020 edition of the Recruitment Zone newsletter. The Recruitment Zone helps connect professionals in Canada with opportunities to join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s lifesaving humanitarian medical action around the world. We are always seeking skilled medical and non-medical experts who can help us provide essential care to people affected by crisis, conflict, disaster […]
Read More… from Recruitment Zone, Summer 2020: Who are MSF staff
A week after the devastating blast that took place in Beirut on August 4, 2020, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is carrying out an emergency response to provide medical support to the people most impacted by the explosion. MSF’s activities cover three main areas of intervention: wound care for people still suffering from injuries, continuity […]
Mosul is located in Ninawa Governorate, home to a population of 3.5 million, with merely one hospital bed for every 3,000 persons.
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Read More… from Mosul, Iraq: MSF teams working on COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on the Yazidi community in Sinjar district in north-west Iraq.
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Read More… from Iraq: From one crisis to another for the Yazidis
On August 4, 2020, a powerful blast ripped through the port warehouses near central Beirut in Lebanon, after highly explosive material that was being stored there ignited. More than a hundred people were killed and nearly 5,000 thousand were injured. Two days later the death toll is still growing as more bodies are found under […]
Read More… from Lebanon: MSF teams supporting health services in explosion aftermath in Beirut
MSF is to join Sea-Watch on board the Sea-Watch 4, a new ship bound for lifesaving operations in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
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Read More… from MSF & Sea-Watch announce collaboration to save lives at sea