By the time the current conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, its Darfur region had already been facing war and ethnic violence for over two decades. Today’s fighting – which first erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—has rekindled fault lines in communities throughout Darfur, […]
30-year-old Khadidja Iba sits on a colorful mat in the waiting area of a therapeutic feeding center that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up at a health center in Massakory, a small town in Chad’s Sahel belt. The mother of six has walked for two hours to bring her youngest child, 9-month-old […]
Read More… from Chad: Lack of rainfall exacerbates already dire malnutrition situation
Right now, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the few organizations on the ground responding to the world’s largest currently active outbreak of measles – which has already killed more than 6,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and continues to ravage different parts of the country. Nearly 75 per cent […]