Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 2023, killing up to 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages, Israeli forces have pursued an all-out war on people in Gaza, killing more than 41,500 according to the UN, and wounding over 96,000. People have been repeatedly displaced and forced into smaller and smaller areas […]
Lebanon is experiencing the most significant escalation of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War, with close to 1,300 people killed over a span of 16 days, between Sept. 16 and Oct. 1, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The intense Israeli bombardments have forced more than one million people to flee their homes, according […]
In a retrospective report published-on Monday, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that together with the Ministry of Health it had treated an unprecedented number of survivors and survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023, and that this upward trend continued in the first months of 2024. The medical […]
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Following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families including MSF staff, have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place. MSF is providing support to displaced people in shelters, like schools, in the south of […]
On Sep. 23, 2024, the Italian authorities imposed yet another punitive measure on the Geo Barents, the search and rescue vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for performing its legal and humanitarian duty to save lives at sea. This time, the vessel received two separate detention orders, immediately after the Geo Barents […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project coordinator Belen Ramirez recounts two days of work alongside volunteers from Arizona-based Samaritans, providing aid to people crossing the border into the unforgiving Sonora desert. It’s early morning in Arizona, just before daybreak, and I am driving on an unpaved road along the border wall between the United […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all its outreach activities in Yei, in Central Equatoria State, South Sudan, until further notice, following a critical security incident involving MSF staff and staff from a partner organization on Friday, Sep. 20, 2024. MSF strongly condemns this attack against health workers in an area where people […]
One of the worst maternal and child health emergencies in the world is unfolding in South Darfur, Sudan, according to a report released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Pregnant, birthing, and postpartum women, as well as children, are dying from preventable conditions as their health needs far exceed what MSF can respond to. […]
Read More… from MSF report: Pregnant women and children dying in shocking numbers in South Darfur
Canadian Ada Yee is an MSF emergency coordinator who has worked in over 17 countries, including Ethiopia, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. She recently completed a four-month assignment in Sudan’s South Darfur region and shares some insight on the impact of the war in Sudan. 17 months after war broke out […]
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Following the widescale Israeli bombings of multiple areas in Lebanon on Monday Sep. 23, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gradually stepping up its response to the escalating humanitarian needs by delivering primary healthcare and essential relief items to the displaced population. According to the Ministry of Health, 558 people were killed and 1,835 […]
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