When the question was put to a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) colleague in Sudan, the answer came quickly: “It is we, the Sudanese, who can tell the world our story.” Sudan’s war has entered its fourth year — more than 1,200 days of conflict. But despite the scale of the crisis, its complexity, and its impact on people, this story has received little international attention […]
Why is El Obeid attracting attention now? The vast Kordofan region in south-central Sudan has remained one of the most volatile and active conflict zones of the three-year-old long war in the country. North Kordofan state is at the centre of the hostilities and its capital, El Obeid has become a refuge for about 100,000 […]
Read More… from Sudan: Drone attacks are worsening the crisis in El Obeid
Across Sudan, healthcare, nutrition, clean water and other basics for survival are in desperate need. As the situation becomes more desperate, local crises must reach near-catastrophic levels just to attract attention and unlock emergency funding. Um Rakuba refugee camp in eastern Sudan has not yet reached catastrophic levels, but walk through the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
Read More… from Sudan: A forgotten camp inside a forgotten war
Drone strikes around the Sudanese town of Tina, have intensified since early May, leading to influxes of wounded patients across the border in Chad at the nearby Tiné hospital, which is supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In recent weeks, residents have reported near-daily strikes, attributed to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, with as […]
Javid Abdelmoneim, physician and international president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just completed a visit to MSF projects across Darfur*. In this interview, he shares his impressions from his visit, the critical humanitarian needs he witnessed and the situation facing civilians in what is currently one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. You recently […]
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 […]
Read More… from A decade on, Canada is still a bystander to attacks against healthcare
Three years of devastating war in Sudan have dismantled the essential services people rely on – including healthcare, protection, food security and basic safety. Beyond causing direct casualties, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), along with the allied groups of both parties, is inflicting profound and far‑reaching […]
Read More… from Sudan: Three years of war have shattered Sudan’s lifelines
In Tawila, North Darfur state, Sudan, the landscape has changed as successive waves of people fleeing violence across Darfur have arrived seeking safety since the start of the war in 2023. Camps like Daba Naira continued to grow as families escaped attacks carried out by the Rapid support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Zamzam and […]
Once again, in Sudan, healthcare has been struck at its heart. On April 2, a drone attack reportedly carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted Al‑Jabalain hospital in White Nile state. There were two strikes – one hit the operating room and the other one the maternity ward. This unacceptable assault resulted in […]
Women in Darfur, Sudan, are demanding protection, care and justice as sexual violence continues across the region, both in active conflict areas and far beyond frontlines, according to a new report released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The report, “‘There is something I want to tell you…’: Surviving the sexual violence crisis in Darfur,” provides the most comprehensive documented accounts […]
Read More… from Sudan: No safe place for women and girls in Darfur, MSF report finds