Sudan: Addressing sexual violence in Darfur

May 28, 2025

Brussels/Amsterdam- Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited and people face...

Sudan: Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed

May 9, 2025

Khartoum, Sudan- Exactly two years after Médecins Sans Frontières (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...

Sudan’s two years of war

April 16, 2025

Sudan- The war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year and people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care and basic lifesaving services. 60 percent...

Sudan: Tales of violence and forced displacement from South Kordofan

April 8, 2025

South Kordofan, Sudan- “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...

Sudan: Pregnant Women’s Fate in Darfur

March 28, 2025

Darfur, Sudan: 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 by foot or donkey, often resulting in...

MSF briefs UN Security Council on Sudan: A catastrophic “war on people”

March 14, 2025

NEW YORK, March 13, 2025—Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and...

Sudan: MSF forced to halt its activities as violence engulfed Zamzam camp in North Darfur

February 24, 2025

The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people near El Fasher in North Darfur is making it impossible for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions. Despite...

Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals across as ‘war on people’ continues

February 11, 2025

Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in three different parts of Sudan - Khartoum, North Darfur and South Darfur states - treated mass influxes of war wounded patients as the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid...

Sudan: MSF condemns a despicable attack on its ambulance in El Fasher, killing one passenger

January 13, 2025

On January 10, an MSF ambulance was shot at in El Fasher, North Darfur, by an unknown gunman while referring a female patient in labor requiring emergency surgical procedure from MSF field hospital in Zamzam camp to Saudi Hospital in...

Sudan: MSF denounces violent attacks leading to suspension of activities at key Khartoum hospital

January 10, 2025

Khartoum/Brussels Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) strongly condemns ongoing violent attacks on patients and staff at Bashair Teaching Hospital, located in a Rapid Support Forces-controlled area of Khartoum. Despite extensive engagements with all stakeholders, these attacks have continued in...

Sudan: MSF Condemns RSF Violent Attack on Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum

December 23, 2024

Khartoum, December 20, 2024 - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the violent incursion by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the emergency room of Bashair Teaching Hospital in South Khartoum on 18 December. The attackers fired weapons inside the emergency...

Sudan: 16% of war-wounded patients at South Khartoum Hospital are children

November 18, 2024

KHARTOUM/BRUSSELS Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel...