Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have received a mass influx of 83 wounded patients in Pieri and Lankien over the space of just five days between March 9-13, and have treated 45 gunshot wounds in Pibor over the past months as waves of intercommunal clashes in Jonglei State and the Greater Pibor […]
Issue: Political Violence
Syria: Indiscriminate attacks in Idlib
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians areas had predictably horrific consequences yesterday in Idlib governorate, Syria
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‘It makes you cry to see it’: An MSF doctor in Syria describes the scene as people flee attacks in Idlib region
A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor working in Deir Hassan camp, 30 kilometres west of Aleppo, describes the situation as hundreds of thousands of people flee an offensive by government forces on the last opposition-held area in Syria. “In the past week, the army has advanced rapidly through the countryside west of Aleppo. People weren’t […]
Conflict in Syria: As government forces move into Idlib, ‘people are facing a desperate situation’
In northwest Syria, airstrikes combined with a ground offensive conducted by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have triggered a huge wave of displacement in the last opposition-held area in the country. With towns and camps west of Aleppo hit by shelling in recent days, roads are packed with cars and trucks as people […]
Northwest Syria : Advancing frontlines reduce access to hospitals in Idlib
The military offensive carried out by the Government of Syria and its allies in southern Idlib continues, further worsening an already critical situation for the population in Northwest Syria. In the space of two months – December 2019 and January 2020 – nearly 390,000 people have fled from their homes or from the camps they were […]
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Bodies at War: the crossroads of fate and war in the Middle East
Bodies at War recounts the stories of four families whose lives have been scarred by years of conflict in the Middle East. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has joined forces with Upian to produce a unique multimedia smartphone experience based on the stories of Hassan, Qatada, Joud and Abu Wesam now living in Amman […]
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Gaza: Deaths and broken lives are the aftermath of airstrikes
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 11 civilians in November 2019. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s teams working in Dar al Salam hospital treated an 11-year-old girl who lost her entire family and was badly injured during the raids. Her story exposes the harrowing consequences of these attacks for the helpless population of the blockaded […]
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MSF 10 monumental moments
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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Northwest Syria: Despair and displacement in winter
Intense military offensives by the Government of Syria and its allies in southern Idlib, involving shelling, aerial bombing and ground offensives, have resulted in a massive new movement of people to escape the war zone. The northern part of Idlib, near the Turkish border, already hosted around 1.5 million vulnerable people, and according to the […]
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Iraq: MSF treats wounded protesters in Baghdad
In 2017, when the war to retake Iraqi cities from the Islamic State (IS) group was leaving scores of people dead, wounded or maimed, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre (BMRC) in the Iraqi capital to provide early medical and physical rehabilitation to the men, women and children […]
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