Sudan: Pregnant Women’s Fate in Darfur
March 28, 2025Darfur, 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...
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Sudan: Over 800 hospitalised and dozens dead from waterborne infection in White Nile state
February 28, 2025Kosti, Sudan- Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute watery diarrhoea, dehydration, vomiting, and sunken eyes at the Ministry of Health cholera treatment centre in Kosti Teaching Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans...
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Sudan: MSF forced to halt its activities as violence engulfed Zamzam camp in North Darfur
February 24, 2025The 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...
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Sudan: Love amid cholera
February 14, 2025I am Majda Rizq, a Sudanese woman filled with compassion for my country. I grew up surrounded by my large family in Sudan, where I learned, worked, married, and established my own family.Looking back, it feels as though the life...
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Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals across as ‘war on people’ continues
February 11, 2025Sudan: 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...
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Sudan: MSF condemns a despicable attack on its ambulance in El Fasher, killing one passenger
January 13, 2025On 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...
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Sudan: MSF Condemns RSF Violent Attack on Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum
December 23, 2024Khartoum, 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...
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Sudan: 16% of war-wounded patients at South Khartoum Hospital are children
November 18, 2024KHARTOUM/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...
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Sudan: Echoes of Darfur
November 5, 2024In Darfur, Sudan, the conflict spanning nearly two decades has escalated dramatically in the past 18 months, uprooting millions. With over 7.9 million internally displaced and 2 million more seeking refuge in countries like Chad, refugees describe their new reality...
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MSF report: Pregnant women and children dying in shocking numbers in South Darfur
September 25, 2024Nyala/ Amsterdam, 25 September - One of the worst maternal and child health emergencies in the world is unfolding in South Darfur, Sudan, according to a report released by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Pregnant, birthing, and postpartum women,...
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Sudan: Catastrophic situation in Zamzam camp, every effort must be made to finally deliver food, medicines and essential supplies to blockaded and starved communities
September 24, 2024Paris, 13 September - As the results of a nutrition screening carried out by the Sudanese health authorities and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) earlier this month in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, indicate a catastrophic nutritional situation that...
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Sudan: MSF calls for quick response, unrestricted access as cholera poses latest peril
September 12, 2024A cholera outbreak is gripping across central and eastern Sudan bringing yet more risk, death and misery to people already bruised by the country’s brutal war. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are supporting by treating patients and providing water...
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