Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the brazen armed robbery of one of its medical teams and the burning of two of its vehicles on the road outside of Yei, South Sudan, during the morning of February 28, 2022. Due to this incident, MSF has had to immediately suspend its movements to support […]
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As hundreds of thousands of people are forced to escape, MSF is working on setting up emergency response activities in Ukraine and deploying teams in Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
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MSF’s teams remain in Ukraine, and we are currently seeking ways to adapt our response as the situation evolves.
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A recent surge in violence in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has displaced thousands of people already affected by five years of conflict. Mozambique is one of the countries most at risk of extreme weather events, with an annual tropical storm cycle that leaves people with little time to recover between storms. On top of that, […]
In September 2018, nurse Awa Abou Amadou was working at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paediatric unit in Magaria in southern Niger. It was her most challenging experience as a nurse. “We used to admit around 140 children a day. It wasn’t easy,” she says. Among other nurses and medical personnel, she worked […]
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“We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My children have no warm clothes and I don’t have enough food to feed them. I don’t have a house made of bricks; it’s only a tent, which doesn’t even stop the wind during cold […]
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On January 26, 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its largest interventions in response to the health and humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan. MSF’s response to the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan started in 2013, by opening an emergency surgical hospital in Ramtha to treat war-wounded patients […]
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Nine Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members were detained by the Sudanese authorities in the capital Khartoum on the evening of January 24, 2021, before being released the following morning. At the time of their detention, our team was returning to the MSF office from the hospital where they had been working […]
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As aid organizations and volunteer groups are prevented from accessing the Polish side of the Belarus border zone, residents of the restricted areas and those living close to it are the only people who can reach those in need, although for them providing such assistance is also considered illegal. Helping these women, children and men […]
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Months of tension and protests in Burkina Faso culminated in a military takeover on January 24, 2022. The political crisis adds to a fragile context characterized by an ongoing conflict with a dramatic downturn in security and rocketing displacement. This has left many people in Burkina Faso struggling to find food, water, shelter and medical […]
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