Eleven days since the UN Security Council called for an end to the fighting in El Fasher, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) one of the few international humanitarian organisations still present in the city warns that hospitals continue to be attacked, and that no outside help can reach the city due to the intensity […]
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Renk transit centre, located around 60 kilometres from Joda, the official entry point, hosts 13,000 refugees and returnees fleeing the war. There, living conditions are dire, with insufficient food, water, shelter, sanitation, and healthcare. About 300 kilometres away, thousands of people are facing the same conditions in the Bulukat transit centre. Dak Denj Uchol, 70 […]
The ongoing war in Sudan is drastically increasing people’s needs across the border in South Sudan, alerts international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. MSF calls for an immediate scale-up of lifesaving aid for refugees and returnees fleeing the war and for the communities hosting them. The war in Sudan, which began […]
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A few weeks into my new role as Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada, I woke up this past Mother’s Day to contrasting realities. As I spent the morning with loved ones, my thoughts were also with two mothers who mourned in #Sudan. Their children were killed as ‘collateral damage’ in […]
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In the five days since intense fighting began between the RSF, Joint Forces, and SAF on Friday May 10, 454 casualties have arrived at South Hospital in El Fasher. 56 people have succumbed to their injuries, but the wounded and death toll are likely far higher since the fighting continues to be so intense that […]
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