When 13-year-old Mamouch suffered a convulsive seizure at home one night, he fell into his family’s cooking fire in their village in Lankien, Jonglei State. Since the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Lankien was bombed and destroyed in February 2026, his family had to travel more than 50 kilometres to the nearest […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to run emergency medical activities in Akobo, eastern Jonglei State, South Sudan, following months of fighting earlier this year. On March 6, the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) launched an offensive on Akobo. Almost all of the town’s residents fled across the border to Ethiopia, where they […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Residents return to Akobo, a town stripped of services
Since early 2025, fighting has intensified across South Sudan in a multi-party war with shifting allegiances along ethnic, regional and political lines. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has issued an in-depth report on the impact of violence against civilians in this conflict, “They killed them while we were running.” Indiscriminate attacks on civilians and […]
Read More… from South Sudan: “They killed them while we were running”
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to permanently close our hospital in Lankien, Jonglei State, South Sudan, after it was bombarded on Feb. 3. This closure brings to an end 31 years of continuous medical support to the community of Lankien, which already had extremely limited access to healthcare. Before its destruction, […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Bombing, looting force MSF hospital to close after 31 years
What does the collapse of a rules-based world order look like? It looks like children and health workers screaming from Gaza’s hospitals as Israel’s shelling draws near. It looks like pharmacies in South Sudan burned to the ground, patients fleeing in fear, their vital medicines reduced to ashes. It feels like the panic and terror tearing through Zamzam camp in Sudan after shelling forced 400,000 people to flee […]
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A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Nyatim, in Nyirol county, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Some 30,000 people have fled to Nyatim in search of safety after recent violence in Lankien and Pieri, finding shelter under trees next to a swamp. According to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members who are in the area, at least 58 people have died over […]
Read More… from South Sudan: As people die in Nyatim, humanitarian access must be opened
“I have lived through many wars, but this kind of displacement has never happened before,” says Moses, who fled his home in Lankien, Jonglei state, South Sudan, as conflict intensified. “I have never seen civilians’ homes burned to ashes on such a scale. We are now living under the trees.” An escalation of violence between […]
Hundreds of thousands of people in Akobo, Jonglei state, are facing an impossible choice as a government-forces-led offensive on the town is imminent, following evacuation orders on March 6. The number of people in the town, currently led by the opposition, includes over 17,000 who were displaced just weeks ago, in the ongoing conflict in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and wellbeing of our staff from Lankien and Pieri in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, following an escalation of violence that has caused many people to flee. On Feb. 3, the MSF hospital in Lankien was hit in an airstrike by the government of […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Dozens of MSF staff remain missing amid escalating violence in Jonglei
Early on Sunday morning, March 1, large-scale violent clashes occurred in Abiemnhom town, in the northwest of Ruweng administrative area. Local communities have been significantly impacted. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the Ministry of Health hospital in Abyei town, which has so far received 80 patients with gunshot wounds, including women and children. […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Mass causality in Abiemnhom town