Panama: Médecins Sans Frontières is forced to suspend medical care for migrants in Darien Gap
March 14, 2024The humanitarian organization warns it is urgent to resume medical activities as soon as possible to guarantee access to health, especially for those who are victims of attacks and sexual violence in the jungle. Bogotá / Panama City: Since Monday,...
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Death, despair and destitution: The human costs of the EU’s migration policies
February 20, 2024In the last years, a policy-made crisis has been unfolding across Europe, at its borders, and beyond, which has resulted in a surge in deaths, despair and destitution among people attempting to seek safety and protection within the European Union...
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MSF South Asia Health and Humanity Summit: Partnering to build better responses during emergencies
August 17, 202317 August 2023, New Delhi: Setting the agenda for a paradigm shift in health and humanitarian considerations during emergencies, especially in South and Southeast Asia, over 15 practitioners, thought leaders, artists, and over 300 attendees from the social impact space...
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MSF calls for urgent international help for Sudanese refugees in Chad as major crisis looms
August 14, 2023As people continue to flee the conflict in Sudan, more than 358,000 refugees have arrived at the border town Adré, in eastern Chad. Refugee camps are being built, but the shelter and basic facilities available in the camps are wholly...
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41 people died in shipwreck off Lampedusa
August 10, 2023By Juan Matías Gil, MSF Search and Rescue Representative“These kinds of tragedies are happening daily in the Mediterranean and at the European borders, right in front of everyone’s eyes. More and more people have been taking the sea to find refuge over...
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Violence and pushbacks at Italian-French border: People on the move left without shelter or healthcare in Italy
August 8, 2023Ventimiglia, 4th August, 2023 - Systematically pushed back at the border by French police – often with violence, inhumane treatment as well as arbitrary detention – and left without adequate shelter and with limited access to healthcare in Italy. In...
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“I saw many corpses on my way” – Stories from the massive influx of wounded Sudanese in eastern Chad
August 3, 2023By the time the current conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, its Darfur region had already been facing war and ethnic violence for over two decades. Today’s fighting – which first erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces...
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Sudan: Fleeing conflict, hundreds of thousands face hardship and disease in overcrowded camps in White Nile State
July 28, 202326 July, 2023 - More than 140,000 people, mostly South Sudanese women and children fleeing from Khartoum, have newly arrived in White Nile state since conflict broke out in Sudan and are now facing huge unmet needs for food, shelter,...
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“The horrifying scenes in Khartoum will forever haunt me”: Refugees’ Journey from Khartoum to the Camps in East Sudan
July 19, 2023Since 15 April, different states in Sudan have been impacted by the fighting, the scale of violence, and limited access to healthcare and essential resources. This has drastically affected the lives of millions of people, leading to displacement and an...
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CAR: MSF vaccinates thousands of children after arrival of refugees from Sudan
July 19, 2023This vaccination campaign against measles and other diseases is part of the emergency response launched by the medical organization in the town of Birao, in northern Central African Republic, where refugees from Sudan have been relocated. A Sudanese girl is...
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Sudan: child refugees in Chad, the direct victims of the conflict
July 9, 2023Sudanese refugees continue to flood into Chad following the conflict that rages in their country, particularly in West Darfur. Among them are infants, children and adolescents who are vulnerable and, in some cases, severely injured. The pediatric ward at the...
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MSF: EU policies are killing people as they search for safety
July 8, 202330 June, 2023 – Following the shipwreck of 14 June which left up to 500 people dead or missing off the coast of Greece, international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounces EU migration policies and calls for...
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