Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported health facilities across North, Central and South Darfur in Sudan on Sep. 10. Four people across the facilities were declared dead on arrival. […]
Read More… from Sudan: Darfur hospitals receive nearly 100 wounded people in one day
I am Majda Rizq, a Sudanese woman filled with compassion for my country. I grew up surrounded by my large family in Sudan, where I learned, worked, married and established my own family. Looking back, it feels as though the life I once knew and the memories I made over decades are a distant dream […]
I’ve just returned home to Canada after several months working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan, a country facing one of the most urgent and underreported humanitarian crises in the world right now. Since the start of the war in April 2023, the UN estimates that more than 13 million people have been […]
Read More… from “How long and how bad does it have to be for a meaningful response?”
Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan’s North Darfur region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns in the new report “Besieged, Attacked, Starved.” We are urging warring parties to halt indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence and facilitate an immediate large-scale humanitarian response. MSF is extremely concerned about the threats of a full-blown assault on the […]
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is profoundly disappointed that Canada and other G7 countries failed to use their power at this month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit to defend international humanitarian law (IHL) and the lives of civilians caught in conflict. At a time when medical care and aid workers are being deliberately targeted, humanitarian […]
Outbreaks of measles have spread widely across Sudan’s Darfur region over the past year, affecting people in many communities where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are treating patients. While massive vaccination campaigns are finally ongoing in several locations across the region, efforts must be increased to catch up on the immunization of children who have never been […]
Violence, insecurity and hunger are devastating people’s lives in South Darfur, Sudan, according to a new Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report. The report, “Voices from South Darfur”, illustrates in vivid testimony how the impact of pervasive violence, a healthcare system in ruins and an inadequate international response have all combined to push people’s […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF report reveals stark lack of protection and assistance in South Darfur
Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal. Yet all the survivors who speak with MSF […]
Read More… from Sudan: “They beat us and they raped us right there on the road in public”
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 […]
Read More… from Sudan: Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed
Three weeks on from the large-scale ground offensive by the Rapid Support Forces on Zamzam camp in early April 2025, reports of intensified fighting in El Fasher continue and more displaced people are arriving in Tawila, North Darfur. With Zamzam camp having been classified as facing famine in August 2024 and many people having been […]