Category: Stories

Yemen: The Land Once Called ‘Happy Arabia’
Yemen: “Word had spread that I was a doctor, and people came to me for help all the time”
Many health workers take great personal risks working in Taiz, and many fear for their lives while at work. Photo: MSF
Yemen: “That evening we had around 30 casualties, both wounded and dead."
An image of Rann IDP camp after the bombing. Photo: Mohammed Musoke/MSF
Nigeria: "We knew something was wrong before the bombing happened"
Mohammed, medical coordinator, during evacuation of wounded people after the bombing of one IDP camp in Rann, Nigeria. Photo:  Mohammed Musoke
Rann, Nigeria: “Most of the dead and injured were women and children”
"What I saw was indescribable. In the space of one hour we counted 52 dead," says Alfred Davies, MSF Field Coordinator in Nigeria. Photo: MSF
Military attack in Nigeria: “I can’t find the words to describe what I saw in Rann”
Galina Mizina, MSF psychologist, consults with a patient in an MSF mobile clinic in Stepanivka. The clinic is held in a kindergarten, which is also partially used as a health center. Photo: Maurice Ressel
Ukraine: “Tell people what is happening here”
Tamara Artyomovna, 73 years old, during a consultation with Galina Mizina, MSF psychologist. Photo: Maurice Ressel
Ukraine: “Your entire universe falls apart”
MSF distributed food to 500 families in Maiduguri on December 14, 2016. Each family receives enough food for two weeks; 25 kilograms of millet, five kilograms of beans and five litres of palm oil. The ration also includes eight bars of soap. Photo: Malik Samuel/MSF
Nigeria: "If we are lucky we get to eat once a day"
Photo: Shafiq Olabi/MSF
Jordan: “Even those who’ve managed to dodge bullets can’t escape fatal diseases.”