An ppdate on the rise in violence in Douentza, central Mali, and MSF’s response.
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CAR: MSF denounces the killing of several civilians, including one if its staff members, in shooting incident near Bambari
The staff member had been severely wounded in the incident that took place on December 28, and which killed a number of passengers and injured several others.
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Nigeria: Long malaria season claims lives in Borno
Nigeria has some of the highest number of deaths from malaria worldwide. Usually, peak malaria season takes place during the rainy season from August to mid-October, when mosquitoes breed, after which patient numbers begin to decrease. This year, however, medical teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) working in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have witnessed […]
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Afghanistan: Persistent insecurity amid ‘peace protest’
The year 2020 has been considered a historic one for Afghanistan. In February, 20 years since the US-led invasion, the US signed a deal with the Islamic Emirate – otherwise known as the Taliban – to pave the way for a conditions-based withdrawal of US troops. In September, intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the […]
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Recurring nightmare in Yemen: Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities
Renewed conflict on the frontlines to the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast has become some of the most intense in the country, and the number of civilians needing major war-trauma surgery is rising, says medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since October, the MSF trauma hospital in the […]
MSF: Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic
Over 100 countries support the landmark proposal. […]
Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter
As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures. For many, it won’t be their first winter in such […]
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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can only be scaled up globally if more suppliers can produce
As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorization of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that any eventual COVID-19 vaccine approval won’t be enough to solve the global pandemic unless corporations take urgent steps […]
Lancet Countdown: No one is immune to the climate emergency
MSF policy briefing for Lancet Countdown.
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MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing the violence in Ethiopia
On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially […]