Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing alarming indications of a deadly and escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region, requiring an urgent scale up of the humanitarian response. In Afar, hundreds of thousands of people have fled from recent conflict only to find themselves grappling alongside host communities with drought, hunger and staggering […]
Somalia and Somaliland are facing one of their worst droughts in decades, following four poor rainy seasons and a locust invasion that was sweeping across the Horn of Africa. Severe water shortages and dry pastures have decimated livestock, affecting the livelihoods of Somali pastoralist communities. As crops fail and food prices rise, the ability of […]
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After 100 days of the war in Ukraine, our mental health teams across the country are raising the alarm on the worrying psychological symptoms they are seeing. […]
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Since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with District Health Authorities, launched activities in Niafounké in June 2021, teams have provided more than 1,100 children aged 0 to 15 with in-patient healthcare at the local referral health centre. In addition, more than 2,200 outpatient medical consultations have been carried out by community health teams for […]
Jessica had her first child at the age of 14. The second at 15. The third at 18, and then she had four more children before she turned 25. In total she has seven children. She lives in Tumeremo, a mining area in the state of Bolivar, in southeastern Venezuela. “My husband works in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the inhumane treatment of migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya and calls for the respect of human dignity in border control. From January to May 2022, MSF recorded 14,196 migrants expelled from Algeria, including 6,749 non-Nigeriens. Some 139 of these migrants were women, and 30 were minors. […]
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A year after Israeli airstrikes and shelling on the Gaza Strip killed 256 people, including 66 children, patients and staff discuss the physical and mental toll they continue to suffer. One year ago, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff entered to provide medical assistance during and after bombings in the Gaza strip. Despite the […]
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A staff member from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) died on Saturday, May 28, 2022, after being shot three times by an individual employed by the armed forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) in the northwestern prefecture of Ouham. MSF condemns this incident in the strongest possible terms and calls on the authorities […]
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MSF repeats its calls for safe routes between Colombia and Panama and urgent medical care for victims of sexual violence at the first point of arrival. The already dire reception conditions for migrants arriving in the province of Darién, Panama, are deteriorating, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. MSF provides medical and mental […]
Far from international media attention, armed violence continues to rage in many parts of the Central African Republic (CAR), forcing entire communities from their homes and onto a path of death and despair. In early 2022, the area of Ippy in the centre of the country experienced renewed clashes between rebel groups and government troops […]
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