
One year on: Soaring needs in Twic County, South Sudan
May 15, 2023Under the shadow of a tree, a group is gathering, exchanging greetings. Peter, a mental health counsellor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Margaret Abuk, MSF health promoter, are conducting an awareness and educational session for a group of overfifty...
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El Geneina Teaching Hospital, West Darfur: 5 key points on the recent violence and humanitarian needs
May 15, 2023The looting of El Geneina Teaching Hospital, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières-Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2021, made headlines in the last week of April.Reports suggest that widespread looting, destruction, and burning of property took place in El...
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“We came to Sudan seeking safety, but now we are trapped in another conflict that makes it even harder to cope and survive.”
May 11, 2023"We came to Sudan seeking safety, but now we are trapped in another conflict that makes it even harder to cope and survive.”- Refugees in Um Rakuba camp. Fighting erupted in Sudan on April 15, affecting Khartoum and other states...
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DRC: MSF treating alarming numbers of victims of sexual violence in displacement camps around Goma
May 10, 2023In just two weeks, more than 670 victims of sexual violence have been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in camps for displaced people around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, representing 48 new victims per...
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Sudan: MSF responds to medical needs, prepares to scale up activities
April 27, 2023Ongoing violence continues in many parts of Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams on the ground report that hospitals are overwhelmed and thousands are fleeing to safer areas. Already we are seeing immense humanitarian and medical needs. During...
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Sudan: “We are still hearing gunfire from our compound as I speak”
April 21, 2023Cyrus Paye, MSF Project Coordinator, describes the situation in North DarfurSince Saturday, April 15, intense fighting has been taking place between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan. Many...
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Sudan: “The hospital is rapidly running out of medical supplies to treat survivors”
April 20, 2023Dr Ghazali Babiker, country director for MSF in Sudan, shares his account of the current humanitarian emergency.Everywhere in the country, and especially in Khartoum, Darfur, North Kordofan and Gedaref states, our teams face serious challenges. Our premises in Nyala, South...
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Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
January 13, 2023The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting women from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Though health workers, including MSF staff, are currently exempted...
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Displaced communities are losing hope as the M23 crisis drags on in North Kivu
August 3, 2022“The whole family was in the field working when the shooting started. We ran away and walked for three hours to Rumangabo in the rain," says Ponsie Benda, 54. The father of 13 found refuge in Virunga National Park’s primary...
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Ukraine: How MSF is trying to access areas most affected by fighting
March 4, 2022While the number of deaths and injuries rises in Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of people seek refuge in neighbouring countries, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working to get staff and equipment into areas most affected by the Russian...
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Jordan: MSF ends intervention for Syrian refugees in northern Jordan
January 31, 2022Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has ended one of its largest interventions responding to the health and humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan. Our response to the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan started in 2013, through an emergency surgical hospital...
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War and conflict: Counter terrorism “adds salt to the wound” in providing medical care in conflict
October 18, 2021Twenty years after the start of the so-called global ‘War on Terror’ [1], counter-terrorism policies and their consequences are rendering the provision of impartial medical care more dangerous and difficult. Humanitarian workers and groups must be given exemptions from counter-terrorism measures....
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