Ukraine: “There’s an urgent humanitarian race against time in Ukraine”
March 11, 2022Anja Wolz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Emergency Coordinator currently based in Lviv, Ukraine, explains the urgency of this stage of the humanitarian response to the war in the country. Here in Lviv, I am getting multiple calls from hospitals...
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Ukraine: In Odessa, “everyone is preparing for the worst”
March 8, 2022Carla Melki, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just returned from the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, where she was part of an MSF team assessing the current situation. Our teams there have been...
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Ukraine: Emergency medical supplies rushed to Kyiv by train from Ukraine warehouse
March 6, 2022Around 6 pm local time, Saturday 5 March, one of Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) emergency response teams in Ukraine met Oleksandr Kamyshin, Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian Railways. MSF’s first international supplies had arrived in Ukraine, and had been...
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Ukraine: Civilians must be allowed safe passage out of dire conditions in Mariupol
March 5, 2022The city of Mariupol is among the areas now heavily affected by the war in Ukraine. Multiple staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are sheltering in the city with their families. One staff member gave the following account today: “The...
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Ukraine: Corridors are not enough for civilians and humanitarian aid in Ukraine
March 5, 2022Following the soul-wrenching reports we received from trapped Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff in Mariupol, Ukraine, we are closely following the ongoing reports about an agreement for the safe passage of civilians this weekend. It is vital that such opportunities for civilians...
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Yemen: Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen
February 23, 2021Opinion by Muriel Boursier, MSF head of mission in Yemen Hamdi is not yet two years old, but this is already his second time as a patient at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Abs hospital, in northern Yemen....
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Iraq: MSF works on dual front of COVID-19 and lifesaving medical care in Mosul
August 5, 2020Iraq has long suffered from war and political instability. The most recent conflict ended in 2017, when Mosul was recaptured after almost three years under the control of the Islamic State (IS) group. Three years later, the consequences of the conflicts in...
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War and conflict
February 6, 2019Around one-third of our humanitarian and medical assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict. Armed conflict devastates lives. Targeted, harassed and caught in hardship and poverty, people are forced into flight or live under siege and face indiscriminate attacks....
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