I’ve just returned home to Canada after several months working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan, a country facing one of the most urgent and underreported humanitarian crises in the world right now. Since the start of the war in April 2023, the UN estimates that more than 13 million people have been […]
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is profoundly disappointed that Canada and other G7 countries failed to use their power at this month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit to defend international humanitarian law (IHL) and the lives of civilians caught in conflict. At a time when medical care and aid workers are being deliberately targeted, humanitarian […]
Exactly two years after MSF first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching Hospital, the team is again scaling up activities to help meet immense medical needs in partnership with the Ministry of Health. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. MSF’s initial focus will be the very worrying and […]
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Three weeks on from the large-scale ground offensive by the Rapid Support Forces on Zamzam camp in early April 2025, reports of intensified fighting in El Fasher continue and more displaced people are arriving in Tawila, North Darfur. With Zamzam camp having been classified as facing famine in August 2024 and many people having been […]
The ongoing conflict in Sudan has not only devastated health structures but has also severely compromised food security, leaving millions of people in danger, particularly in conflict-affected areas such as South Darfur. Among those enduring the most in this crisis are internally displaced persons, many of whom are struggling to secure even the most basic […]
Read More… from Sudan: Malnutrition crisis in South Darfur, dire situation for people most at risk
Following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) large-scale ground offensive on Zamzam camp that started on April 11, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the communities already besieged and deprived of lifesaving assistance in El Fasher, the neighbouring capital city of North Darfur. In Tawila, further west, overwhelmed Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams […]
As the war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year, people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care and basic vital services. Sixty per cent of the country’s 50 million people need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations (UN), and […]
After being starved, shelled and deprived of vital assistance, people in Zamzam displacement camp, near El Fasher, are once again under attack. The Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups launched a large-scale ground offensive on April 11. There are reports of people fleeing and many casualties, although we can’t verify how many at the […]
Read More… from Sudan: Deadly attack on Zamzam camp, survivors arriving to Tawila
“The morning of the attack I was at home and my mother was sick. We ran to escape with my children. I carried my mother on a donkey cart as she could not walk. When we were near the mountains, we stopped to bury her. My two brothers were shot and killed during the escape,” […]
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With only a few health facilities still functioning in Darfur, pregnant women face harrowing journeys to seek care. Insecurity, checkpoints and unaffordable or unavailable transportation force them to undertake day-long treks on foot or donkey, often resulting in delivery complications, miscarriage or death. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operates in ten out of Sudan’s […]
Read More… from Sudan: Miscarriage or delivery complications, pregnant women’s fate in Darfur