Mass killing of civilians is sickening and must be condemned in all possible terms. Horrific violence has been wreaked over the last 10 days. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed in Israel. Thousands of men, women and children have been killed in Palestine. The situation today in Gaza is catastrophic. Hospitals and […]
Read More… from MSF: Unconditional humanity needs to be restored in Gaza
Community based mental health sessions give hope to people in Myanmar who have faced years of conflict and displacement and are still rebuilding from the damage of a grade five cyclone that hit parts of the country in mid-May. “Patients often say to me that our sessions give them hope for the future. They feel […]
Read More… from Myanmar: Mental health counsellors are more important than ever after Cyclone Mocha
On Sept. 19, Azerbaijan launched an attack on various areas in Nagorno-Karabakh. The region is a self-proclaimed republic internationally recognised as belonging to Azerbaijan, but which has traditionally been home to many ethnic Armenians. After a ceasefire agreement was reached 24 hours later, more than 100,000 residents from the region made their way to neighbouring […]
Read More… from Armenia: MSF offers mental health support to people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh
At around 11:10 a.m. local time on Oct. 7, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by several aftershocks. As of 7 p.m. local time, health authorities have confirmed 23 deaths, and 300 wounded people have been received at Herat Regional Hospital. Several aftershocks were experienced including one of 6.3 magnitude on Oct. 11. Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: MSF is responding to Herat earthquake
More than one million people have fled the fighting linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of them currently live in complete destitution in overcrowded camps in Goma, the provincial capital, and the surrounding area. Claire Magone, MSF-France’s Executive […]
Read More… from DRC: a “total dead end” for displaced people in Goma
Fouzia Bara is a French-Moroccan nurse with previous experience in psychological first aid (PFA). She has just returned from Morocco after two weeks as part of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) emergency response team. She provided first psychological aid to the people in the most impacted villages. During her work in Morocco, Fouzia […]
Read More… from Morocco: Treating the invisible wounds as people rebuild their lives
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently calling for an improved medical and humanitarian response for people fleeing conflict in Sudan and entering South Sudan through Renk, a town located in the northernmost state of Upper Nile. Since the fighting erupted in Sudan, around 290,000 individuals have entered South Sudan — 80 per cent […]
Read More… from South Sudan : Malaria and malnutrition rise among returnees
The morning of Oct. 9, at around 7:20 a.m. shelling struck the MSF supported Al Nao hospital, in Omdurman, Khartoum. A shell hit Al Nao’s emergency department, killing two patient caretakers, and injuring five people, who were immediately referred to other facilities. As one of the last functioning hospitals in Omdurman, the hospital was treating […]
Despite Israeli announcements suggesting that there are safe areas for the population trapped in the Gaza Strip, they are in fact exposed to bombardment throughout all the territory, including in the south, where tens of thousands of people have fled following the ultimatum. As the Israeli army has been bombarding the Gaza Strip without restraint […]
Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity. We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that. We are talking about more than a million human beings. ‘Unprecedented’ doesn’t even […]
Read More… from MSF states Israeli order to evacuate northern Gaza ‘outrageous’