Brother and Sister in Chad’s Andressa, on the border with Sudan

MSF nurse triaging children at the Andréssa site in Sila province for Refugees from Sudan and host communities in eastern Chad an the MSF mobile Clininc.

Neal Russell is a pediatric doctor and advisor based in London – who has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for 10 years. Following a recent visit to MSF’s project in Chad’s eastern region of Sila near the border with Sudan, Neal provides his account of the situation he witnessed there. He […]

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South Sudan: A crisis within a crisis as people fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

MSF nurse checking temperature of a patient at a mobile clinic in South Sudan.

Thousands of people who escaped the conflict in Sudan by crossing into South Sudan are now struggling for survival at transit centres in Upper Nile and Northern Bahr El Ghazal states, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Most are South Sudanese nationals who were living in Sudan when conflict broke out in April, and […]

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Insecurity and lack of access to healthcare: the forgotten emergency of Ituri

Since early 2023, Djugu territory in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has seen intense intercommunal violence and armed clashes, forcing an estimated 156,000 people to flee their homes. This is the latest surge of violence in a decades-long conflict, which has seen 700,000[1] people displaced within Djugu territory and 1.7 million across Ituri […]

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Sudan: Obstructive bureaucracy and insecurity hampering humanitarian response

MSF Mobile clinic near Wedwill refugee camp in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state.

As the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enters its third month, rampant violence and huge health needs persist across Sudan, particularly in Khartoum and Darfur. Although Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is running medical projects, its ability to scale up activities is being impeded by extensive […]

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“Survivors showed me their scars and told me how they were beaten by guards in Libya”

MSF search and rescue teams helping a survivor get onto the rescue boat.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues search and rescue activities on the Mediterranean Sea to support people in distress who are fleeing crises. Children and adults, no matter who they are, everyone we assist at sea is in a vulnerable position. We see people from all over the world taking dangerous journey. By Niamh […]

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DRC: MSF calls for a rapid and tangible increase in humanitarian aid in response to North Kivu crisis

MSF staff handling medicine distribution to displaced people after their consultation at the Rusayo camp.

Some 600,000 displaced people are living in desperate conditions, with inadequate access to food and exposed to violence in camps around Goma, in the North Kivu region. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s medical teams have witnessed alarming rates of malnutrition and mortality in some of the camps. UN agencies recently announced they would be […]

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Occupied Palestinian Territories: MSF treats patients, condemns attack on medical facilities and civilians

An MSF staff carrying emergency and trauma medical supplies in the Jenin refugee camp.

Following the air and ground military raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin, MSF is assisting Jenin’s Khalil Suleiman hospital by providing medical care in its emergency room. So far, five Palestinians were killed and more than 90 were wounded, per the Palestinian health authorities. The raid began earlier this morning, and seven Israeli soldiers […]

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Sudan Crisis: MSF calls for civilians to be spared and enabled to flee the city safely

A group of wounded people in Adré Hospital being treated by MSF and Ministry of Health teams in Chad.

As almost 900 wounded and 15,000 Sudanese refugees from West Darfur’s capital and its surroundings have reached the Chadian town of Adré in the last four days, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of consistent reports of people being shot at and killed as they try to leave the city during their perilous escape […]

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Over 600 war-wounded Sudanese arrive in Adré hospital in eastern Chad in the space of just three days

MSF teams are assessing the medical situation of newly arrived refugees in Adré seated in front of the fence.

As violence rages in West Darfur, wounded people are coming in waves to Adré hospital in Chad, where they are being treated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and  Ministry of Health teams. At least 242 wounded were received on June 15 alone, and 348 on June 16. A total of at least 622 […]

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Water and sanitation in northwest Syria: the invisible health threats to displaced people

Aerial photo of 2 MSF Team members setting up water collection tanks.

Jindires, a once-magnificent city located in northwest Syria, near the Turkish border, has been reduced to rubble, bearing the scars of both a relentless war and a recent earthquake. In northwest Syria, nine out of 10 people who were newly displaced by the earthquakes into camps, had been displaced by the war at least once […]

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