topic: Conflict/Violence

Dr Roberto Scaini, medical activity manager at Haydan hospital, explains young parents that their son has pneumonia and is showing signs of moderate malnutrition. Photo: Florian SERIEX/MSF
Yemen: In north, the invisible dead
The MSF team treats medical and surgical emergencies as the hospital in Qayyarah has an emergency room, operating theater and inpatient departments. Photo: Brigitte Breuillac/MSF
Iraq: MSF treating emergencies in Qayyarah hospital
CAR: “Our paediatric hospital had to suddenly function as an adult trauma center”
Jean left Nasima on 6 Decembre 2016 with his family to find shelter at Aviation IDP camp. “There was infighting between two armed groups near the village and there was a rumour that they were burning villages, so we fled. My son went back later to see what was left. All had been burned. I would like to go back to my village, but I have no money left to pay for transportation”. Photo: Colin Delfosse
Central African Republic: Civilians pay the price of renewed, brutal fighting
On January 26, Women and children queuing to the primary healthcare centre (PHCC) in Al Alam camp. Photo: Karin Ekholm/MSF
Iraq: “We walked all night, staying away from roads for fear of being caught”
Twenty trucks were used in the distribution. Each truck carried ten relief kits, given to families in need.The relief kits contained hygiene kits, clothes, cooking utensils, blankets, mattresses and buckets. Photo: MSF
Syria: Instability in the south
Syria: Khan Sheikhoun victims have symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical substances
Photo: MSF
"The war in Yemen is taking a very high toll on the civilian population"
MSF staff entering the Meshta Nour hospital, Kobane, Syria. Photo: Jamal Bali/MSF
Syria: “I watched my son dying in my arms”
View of the MSF field trauma clinic with an emergency room, operating theatre, intensive care unit and in patient department. The facility was opened on the 16th February in a village south of Mosul. Photo: MSF
Mosul: The patients we receive are the “lucky ones”