From June 15 to 17, Canada will be hosting the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta. It will be the first time all the leaders of the G7 countries will meet this year. The meeting is taking place amid a period of global upheaval, as the world faces multiple large-scale conflicts and humanitarian crises, from Gaza […]
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“I didn’t think that this hospital was going to be bombed,” says David Charo Kahindi, medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in South Sudan, who was in Old Fangak on May 3 when the MSF-supported hospital was bombed. He was part of the team extinguishing the fire and treating and evacuating wounded […]
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“I thought I was going to die in the flames,” says Jordan, who suffered burns over 60 per cent of his body in a tanker truck explosion in Miragoâne, in southwest Haiti, on Sept. 14, 2024. Like him, two other survivors have been receiving care for months at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
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An insufficient amount of humanitarian assistance is being allowed into Gaza, merely a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over. Meanwhile, at least 20 medical facilities in Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service in the past week by advancing Israeli ground operations, intensified airstrikes and widespread evacuation orders. As […]
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This week, the Canadian Government made two statements in strong opposition to Israel’s military operations and siege in Gaza. These statements include a joint declaration by Prime Minister Mark Carney and leaders of the United Kingdom and France reaffirming what we at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) already know first-hand from our teams providing […]
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The U.S.-Israel proposition to control the distribution of supplies under the guise of humanitarian assistance raises grave humanitarian, ethical, security and legal concerns, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Making assistance conditional on forced displacement and vetting of people are other tools in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population. MSF […]
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The number of mental health consultations and new patients admitted to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Comprehensive Care Centre (Centro de Atención Integral or CAI, in Spanish) for survivors of extreme violence, based in Mexico City has increased significantly in the last six months. MSF attributes the increase to continued violence at the […]
Every attack on healthcare is unacceptable and has consequences. When two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) boats were fired on as they crossed a river in South Sudan in January this year, we had to make a difficult decision to suspend our outreach activities due to safety concerns. Just three months later, MSF’s hospital […]
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Port-au-Prince is undergoing an extremely high level of violence as armed groups are coordinating attacks on several areas of the city previously beyond their control. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning that our Tabarre trauma hospital – one of the last in the capital – could reach the limits of its capacity. This […]
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Exactly two years after MSF first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching Hospital, the team is again scaling up activities to help meet immense medical needs in partnership with the Ministry of Health. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. MSF’s initial focus will be the very worrying and […]
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