Central African Republic: Repeated attacks on medical care leave people vulnerable to disease and death
July 20, 2021Relentless attacks on patients, health staff and medical facilities in the Central African Republic (CAR) during a countrywide surge in violence are forcing the suspension of medical activities and seriously constraining people’s access to healthcare, says international medical organisation Médecins...
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Central African Republic: Killings and Threats in Hospitals Must Stop
December 9, 2013New York/Paris, December 9, 2013—After deadly attacks and threats inside hospitals in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on all parties to the conflict to allow...
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Central African Republic: Hundreds Wounded and Thousands Displaced in Bangui
December 7, 2013DECEMBER 7, 2013—Following violence in Bangui on December 5, hundreds of people are wounded, and thousands have fled, regrouping in several sites around the city. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding activities to continue to treat the wounded...
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Central African Republic: Dozens Killed and Injured in Bangui Violence
December 5, 2013MSF Teams Treating Scores of Wounded in City Hospitals BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, DECEMBER 5, 2013—Violent armed clashes in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital of Bangui early this morning caused dozens of casualties, including numerous deaths. Teams from the...
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Central African Republic: New Fighting Adds to Massive Crisis
November 26, 2013SF Renews Call for Increased Humanitarian Response to Ongoing Crisis New York, November 26, 2013—A massive humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) is growing even more severe, as fighting and threats against civilians near the town of Bouca...
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CAR: Tens of Thousands Flee Attacks and Killings
October 16, 2013NEW YORK, OCTOBER 16, 2013—Tens of thousands of people have fled a new wave of attacks and ruthless killings by armed groups and government forces in northwestern Central African Republic (CAR), the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans...
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Central African Republic: 9,000 children vaccinated against measles, polio in Gadzi
October 7, 2013About nine thousand children from seriously afflicted Central African Republic are now protected against measles and polio, following the emergency intervention in Gadzi, north-eastern Central African Republic, which started in August after Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams...
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MSF Denounces the Targeting of Civilians in a New Wave of Violence in CAR
September 16, 2013The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the targeting of civilian populations in a new wave of violence that erupted recently in Bouca, roughly 180 miles north of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic (CAR)....
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Central African Republic Abandoned to its Fate
July 9, 2013BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK, July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization...
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CAR: MSF Brings Healthcare To People Living In Fear
June 4, 2013Thousands of people left without healthcare after a coup d’etat in Central African Republic (CAR) are now receiving treatment from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Three months after the coup we are still scaling up our response. Our...
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"A Crisis on Top of a Crisis": MSF Expands Programs in Post-Coup CAR
June 4, 2013Three months after a coup d’etat in the Central African Republic (CAR), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to scale up activities in order to assist thousands of people who were left without access to basic health care or...
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In Central African Republic, the Violence Has Ended But the Emergency Continues
May 17, 2013May 17, 2013 Serge St-Louis just returned from nine months as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). He was there in late 2012, when Seleka, a new coalition of Central African...
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