The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people ur is making it impossible for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions. Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF forced to halt activities as violence engulfed Zamzam camp
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in three different parts of Sudan – Khartoum, North Darfur and South Darfur states – treated mass influxes of wounded people as the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued, with little respect shown for civilian life. On Feb. 4, in […]
Read More… from Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals, “war on people” continues
International donors, the United Nations (UN), Sudan’s warring parties and their allies must act now to prevent even more avoidable deaths from malnutrition in Sudan, as the already catastrophic situation is expected to worsen this year, according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Half of Sudan’s population faces high levels of acute food insecurity […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation
On the morning of Feb. 1, a Rapid Support Forces explosive hit a market in Omdurman, Khartoum state, causing a scene of devastation at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) supported Al Nao hospital as patients, dead bodies and family members arrived at the hospital. The Ministry of Health said the attack killed 54 […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF responds to attack in Khartoum after 54 killed, others injured
On Jan. 10, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance was shot at in El Fasher, North Darfur, by an unknown gunman while referring a female patient in labor requiring emergency surgical procedure from MSF field hospital in Zamzam camp to Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, the only public hospital with surgical capacity still […]
2024 saw Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responding to various emergencies spanning the globe. Abyei: area between Sudan and South Sudan The 38-kilometer trip from Agok to Abyei takes over 6 hours due to poor roads. MSF uses a tractor to navigate mud bogs. The road conditions prevent water and sanitation trucks from […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the violent incursion by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the emergency room of Bashair Teaching Hospital in South Khartoum on Dec. 18. The attackers fired weapons inside the emergency ward, directly threatened medical staff, and severely disrupted lifesaving care. MSF urgently calls on RSF to respect the […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF condemns RSF violent attack on Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum
“The most important thing you can do is let the world know what is happening here.” This recent plea from Dr. Abu Baker, a hospital director in the West Bank, is a familiar one for our teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The simple request – to share the grave realities we […]
Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since Jan. 2024 have been under the age of 15. Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving at the hospital severely malnourished. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working […]
Read More… from Sudan: 16 per cent of war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital children
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) resumed its outpatient nutritional program in Zamzam camp, near El Fasher in North Darfur, for children suffering from acute malnutrition after receiving therapeutic food supplies this week. MSF was forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam camp in late September after the warring parties […]