“In the heart of South Sudan, nestled within the confines of Abyei, is where my story begins. My name is Awa Abdou, but to the locals and the volunteers here, I’m lovingly known as Nyan Abyei, the ‘Abyei Lady’. Though I arrived as an outsider, this community embraced me, making me feel as if I’ve […]
People displaced from Sudan sheltering in camps in eastern Chad are living in dire conditions, desperately short of clean water and decent sanitation. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing water and sanitation assistance in three camps in the border region. Some 40,000 people in Metche refugee camp are receiving just six litres […]
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Since the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, collapsed on Dec. 1, aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces have resulted in hundreds of people killed and injured. Two hospitals supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Al-Aqsa in the Middle Area and Nasser in the south of the […]
On 18 November 2023, an MSF evacuation convoy came under fire in Gaza city. Two people were killed in what immediately appeared as a deliberate attack against clearly identified MSF cars. Both were family members of MSF staff, one of them was also a volunteer supporting MSF medical teams at Al-Shifa hospital. Two weeks later, […]
This morning, the truce broke after a week. Israeli forces have called for people in some neighbourhoods in the Middle Area and Khan Younis to evacuate further south to Rafah. MSF-supported clinics Martyrs and Beni Suhaila are located in areas under the evacuation order. Nearly a million internally displaced people in the Strip have sought shelter in the south of Gaza, […]
Read More… from Gaza: Israeli forces issue evacuation orders as fighting resumes
Following the outbreak of war in early October between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Israeli forces have repeatedly pushed people to move from the north of Gaza to the south. Today, the humanitarian situation in the south of Gaza is dire and unsafe. Intense bombardment and fighting have uprooted over 1.8 million […]
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A version of this article appears in Policy Options magazine. The negotiation text of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposed Pandemic Treaty, released Oct 30th, contains language around not only equitable access to pandemic products like medicines and vaccines, but sustainable production of these products. Thankfully, Canadian proposals that would have undermined equitable access were […]
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Dr. Nataliia Pyvovar works on the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical train in Ukraine. The train evacuates patients from frontline areas to facilities in safer regions of the country. Another journey begins today. Nataliia feels confident and resilient because there was no shelling at night, so she managed to sleep. This is necessary […]
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Migrants crossing the Darien Gap – a 100-km stretch of wilderness straddling the borders of Colombia and Panama – have described being subjected to kidnappings and group rapes in tents set up for that purpose in the mountainous rainforest and swampland. This year, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have treated 397 survivors […]
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Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities. “The world’s most vulnerable people are paying with their health […]
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