Drone attacks carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are hitting civilian areas and critical infrastructures, including schools, markets, healthcare facilities and water sources, across Sudan. In the first two weeks of February, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have treated 167 patients suffering from penetrating injuries to […]
Last summer, when Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) asked if I was interested in going back to Sudan, I said yes, in a heartbeat. I had lived and worked in Sudan during a previous assignment with MSF from September 2021 until March 2023 — long enough for Khartoum to become familiar: the tea ladies, […]
Read More… from Sudan: In search of a missing scarf amidst destruction
As violence continues to spread across Sudan, the Kordofans, in the south-central part of the country, have remained one of the most volatile and active conflict zones. At the same time, it is one of the least accessible regions for humanitarian organizations. At the heart of this vast area, the city of El Obeid, the […]
Hover Button ADD MSF TO GOOGLE Add MSF as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was granted access to El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, to assess the current situation of the civilians and health facilities. This comes after the Rapid […]
Read More… from Sudan: A glimpse of the “ghost town” of El Fasher
In 2026, Sudan marks three years of a war that has devastated cities, collapsed essential services and forced millions of people to flee. Among them are our Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues, who make daily efforts to sustain hope. Each of our Sudanese colleagues has lost something because of the war. From the […]
Read More… from Sudan: In the midst of war, how Sudanese colleagues continue to save lives
Measles cases are rising rapidly across Sudan’s Central, South and West Darfur states, in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign. More than 1,300 cases have been recorded in health facilities supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since September, despite our repeated advocacy for vaccination campaigns and the resumption of routine […]
Read More… from Sudan: Measles cases surge in Darfur despite months calling for vaccination
After witnessing the deaths of his wife and daughter in the middle of bombings in El Fasher, AM* set out on a grueling journey toward Tawila, 60 kilometres away, on Oct. 27. He and his remaining family members spent four agonizing days walking on foot, in which they endured torture, beatings and robbery. Along the way, in the village of Garni, he had to bury his niece, a young girl who […]
Read More… from Sudan: Desperate conditions and accounts of mass violence in North Darfur
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is mourning the death of a Ministry of Health (MoH) colleague at Zalingei hospital in Central Darfur on Nov. 18. We call once again for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to guarantee the protection of health facilities and staff. MSF extends our deepest condolences to the family of the MoH stretcher-bearer who was killed in the shooting outside Zalingei hospital, which also left four people wounded. […]
Mighty desert, mighty rivers, The flow of life in the heat of passions The depths of the message are hard to reach Standing still in the action The sands and the waters are speaking the same language We are at the crossroad of space and time The hardest is to face what is The tears […]
Read More… from Sudan: The war on people, the choice is ours
As starving people continue to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing critical care to people who have reached the town of Tawila. Here, MSF is witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition, in what is now the most severe example of a […]
Read More… from Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in Sudan’s protracted crisis