Over the past two years, more than one million women, men and children have fled the ongoing fighting in the DRC’s North Kivu province. More than half of them have sought refuge near the provincial capital of Goma, with many living in inhumane conditions on improvised sites where everything is lacking: decent shelter, water, food, […]
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In an escalation of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, armed men attacked the town of Drodro on the night of 6 to 7 March, killing a patient in her bed ransacking the general hospital, and looting medical equipment, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams work in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been ordered by Panamanian authorities to stop all medical activities for people on the move through the Darién Gap, on the border between Panama and Colombia. Since receiving the order on Monday 4 March, MSF has suspended our activities. The Panamanian authorities allege that MSF does not currently […]
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The first survey in more than a decade to examine the impact of violence on mortality in Haiti reveals the extreme levels of violence experienced by residents of Cité Soleil, the largest slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The retrospective mortality survey was carried out by Epicentre, the epidemiology and medical research arm of Doctors Without […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its medical activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to care for the mounting number of people injured in the chaos that has engulfed the Haitian capital since the Feb. 28 announcement that general elections may be postponed as late as August 2025. The violence has taken on a […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is devastated about the death Reem Abu Lebdeh, an associate trustee of the MSF UK Board and former staff member in Gaza, whom we believe was killed sometime in December 2023. Though the exact circumstances and date of Reem’s death remain unclear, we believe she was killed along with […]
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People on the migration route through the Darién Gap, the roadless region between Colombia and Panama, experience an intensified level of brutality and cruelty in attacks of sexual violence. In the last two months, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have also recorded an exponential increase in the number of assaults, in what […]
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“We are horrified by the latest news from Gaza City, where over 100 people were killed and about 750 wounded today, according to local health authorities, after Israeli forces reportedly opened fire as Palestinians were waiting to receive food from aid trucks. MSF staff were not present on the site, and due to bad telecommunications, we […]
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“I was not like this before, I knew how to cope with problems, but now I find it hard,” says Camila,* tears running down her face as she sits in a shelter for migrants in Matamoros, in Mexico’s Taumalipas state. Camila’s tears are just one sign of what she has been through in recent weeks. […]
Ituri province, in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been gripped for decades by recurring cycles of violence. Since mid-February there has been a resurgence of attacks, many of them targeting civilians, resulting in significant casualties, especially among women and children. In response to people’s critical medical needs in the province, in […]