Sudan: Fighting in El Fasher remains incessant despite UNSC resolution, warns MSF; civilians are trapped and no aid can enter the city
June 23, 2024Nine days since the UN Security Council called for an end to the fighting in El Fasher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – one of the few international humanitarian organisations still present in the city – warns that hospitals continue to...
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Sudan war is exacerbating humanitarian needs in neighbouring South Sudan, warns MSF
June 19, 202418 June 2024, Juba – The ongoing war in Sudan is drastically increasing people’s needs across the border in South Sudan, alerts international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. MSF calls for an immediate scale-up of lifesaving...
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Sudan: One by One, Hospitals are Damaged and Closed in El Fasher as Fighting Rages and People Flee
June 14, 202413 June, 2024 - Since May 10, El Fasher has seen intense fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Joint Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As the conflict continues to ravage El Fasher, the city’s hospitals are...
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Need knows no difference between refugees and Sudanese host communities: This is Um Rakuba
June 5, 2024Imagine the scene: a busy refugee camp in El Gedaref state, on the edge of eastern Sudan, close to the Ethiopian border. This is Um Rakuba, where people in desperate need of medical care wait patiently for their turn at...
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Sudan: No Place Is Safe from Violent Fighting in El Fasher as Hospitals are Repeatedly Hit
May 28, 2024Hospitals hit and death toll soars as violent fighting engulfs El Fasher, Sudan, leaving nowhere safe in the city; MSF calls urgently for protection of civilians, health workers and health structures. El Fasher, Sudan, 27 May 2024 – The intense,...
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From bombs to desolate halls: MSF responds to people displaced in Zalingei, Sudan, without assistance
May 20, 2024The war in Sudan has caused massive devastation and one of the world's largest displacement crises. After heavy fighting between Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) started in the Darfur region, most humanitarian actors evacuated – and...
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Sudan: Bomb puts El Fasher paediatric hospital out of action amid intense escalation: two children killed
May 13, 2024Two children who were receiving care in MSF's intensive care unit at Babiker Nahar Paediatric Hospital died after an airstrike on 11 May led to a roof collapse. At least one caregiver has also died. On the evening of Saturday...
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Sudan: As fighting escalates around El Fasher, major malnutrition crisis persists in Zamzam camp
May 2, 2024In response to the escalating fighting in North Darfur, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated over 100 war wounded patients – including 11 children, many with gunshot wounds – at South Hospital, El Fasher, over the past two weeks, but...
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Sudan is facing a colossal man-made catastrophe; MSF calls for an urgent, rapid scale-up of the humanitarian response
April 12, 2024After one year of war, the aid provided to millions of people is a drop in the ocean due to political blockages created by the warring parties and lack of action from the United Nations and international humanitarian organisations.In one...
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In Sudan, “the needs are growing by the day, but the response is deeply inadequate”
April 9, 2024The following statement from Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), outlines the dire situation for people caught up in the war in Sudan ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the conflict. “Sudan is one of the...
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Displaced by war, people in eastern Sudan urgently need food, water and shelter
March 22, 2024Following the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, close to 190,000 people have been displaced in the country’s Kassala state alone up until February 2024. Among them are approximately 40,000 people who fled recent violence in Al-Jazeera state. The plight of internally displaced people in...
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