Following the current outbreak of violence in Jonglei State and the Greater Pibor Administrative area of South Sudan, thousands of people have fled for their lives and are seeking refuge inside the United Nation’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Pibor town. Our teams have treated over 28 wounded in the last two weeks in […]
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Interview with Luis Eguiluz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humantiarian crisis inthe northeast of the country. You arrived in Nigeria in September 2017; do you think the situation for the population in Borno has improved since then? After more than 10 years of conflict […]
Read More… from Northeast Nigeria: ‘The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive’
For almost two decades, active conflict has made life extremely difficult for people in Afghanistan. In addition to those who have been directly impacted by violence, many others can’t even access basic healthcare. Hazards such as landmines, bombs, active fighting and the danger of being caught in crossfire can make simply travelling to or from […]