2024: A year in review
Scenes of resilience, solidarity, and hope from a year of turmoil around the world.
2024 saw Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responding to various emergencies spanning the globe.
The 38-kilometer trip from Agok to Abyei takes over 6 hours due to poor roads. MSF uses a tractor to navigate mud bogs. The road conditions prevent water and sanitation trucks from reaching Abyei. South Sudan, 2024. © Aurélie Lécrivain/MSF
Abyei: area between Sudan and South Sudan
The 38-kilometer trip from Agok to Abyei takes over 6 hours due to poor roads. MSF uses a tractor to navigate mud bogs. The road conditions prevent water and sanitation trucks from reaching Abyei.
South Sudan, 2024. © Aurélie Lécrivain/MSF
Providing healthcare post-conflict in Kajo Keji, South Sudan
Ita Joice, 27 years old, meets her baby girl, Juan, during her caesarean section in Mundari County Hospital, the only secondary healthcare facility in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria.
South Sudan, 2024. © Manon Massiat/MSF
Protest in South Africa
Images and videos from a picket in Johannesburg outside Novo Nordisk’s office asking them to drop the price of insulin pens to $1, and to end the double standard on insulin pen supply.
South Africa, 2024. © Bafana Ngwenya/MSF
South Khartoum, Sudan
While shopping with her mother at a nearby market this 20-month-old toddler was struck by shrapnel after a bomb-blast tore through the neighbourhood. Along with other casualties the unnamed girl was brought to the Bashair Training Hospital in South Khartoum. During the Xray a part of the girls skull cap fell onto the table. An MSF emergency team operated on the girl and managed to save her life.
Sudan, 2024. © MSF
A rubber boat leaving the French coasts to the UK
During the night of Wednesday January 24 and Thursday January 25, a small semi-rigid boat (also known as a “small boat”) left the Gravelines canal, near Grand-Fort-Philippe in northern France, for England. Police were trying to prevent the last people from boarding the small boat before it set off to attempt the Channel crossing.
France, 2024. © Stéphane Lavoué
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
In Nov. 2024, a series of threats by police forces against MSF staff forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. MSF has since partially resumed medical activities in the city.
Haiti, 2024. © Corentin Fohlen/Divergence
Nigeria
Maryam Muhammad and the MSF health promotion team conduct a Tom Brown sensitization session for men in Kebbi. Convincing men to support the approach is key as the mostly are the one supplying the family. For cultural reasons, MSF organizes separated sessions for men and women.
Nigeria, 2024. © Georg Gassauer/MSF
Gaza
Al Shifa medical complex after 14 days of siege by the Israeli forces. An unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in Gaza.
Palestinian Territories, 2024. © MSF
Search and Rescue
Life on Deck. In Dec. 2024, MSF ceased operations on board its rescue vessel, Geo Barents, which had been operational since June 2021.
Mediterranean Sea, 2024. © Frederic Seguin/MSF
Ceasefire
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of MSF, holds up an image of the destroyed MSF shelter in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Gaza. An MSF staff member’s wife and daughter-in-law were killed and six other people were injured when an Israeli tank fired on a clearly marked MSF staff shelter on Feb. 20, 2024. Lockyear called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza. Addressing the Council at its monthly meeting on Gaza, Lockyear also called for the unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients.
Palestinian Territories, 2024. © UN Photo/Loey Felipe
