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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An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa’ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21, 2021 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans […]
Nine hundred dollars meant the difference between imprisonment and freedom for 23-year-old Kouassi [not his real name], who fled his home in Côte d’Ivoire only to be sold to human traffickers in Libya. After being rescued from an unseaworthy boat drifting in the central Mediterranean by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s search and rescue ship […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assistance to communities on the remote islands of Dinagat, Siargao and other outlying areas, some of the worst affected by Typhoon Rai (local name: Odette), which struck the Philippines in December 2021 causing hundreds of casualties. Following assessments carried out between December […]
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By: Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer in MSF Canada
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Six months after the murder of our three colleagues Maria, Tedros and Yohannes, the full circumstances of, and responsibility for, their killing remains unclear.
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Overwhelming violence has tormented people in Djugu’s territory, Ituri’s province, north-east of the DRC since 2017, as community tensions have sparked the resurgence of an armed conflict.
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When the floodwater levels started rising in her village, 21-year-old Nyabeel and her husband were torn about what to do. Leaving their land, which they relied on for food, was a tough decision. “We spent three days moving. It was challenging, with four children and a herd of goats,” she says. Eight months on since […]
MSF has withdrawn its team after being repeatedly blocked by Polish authorities from accessing the forested border region.
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Myanmar’s public healthcare system is in disarray. Days after the military seized power on February 1, 2021, medical staff walked out of their jobs, spearheading the civil disobedience movement that saw government employees of all stripes go on strike. Most have not returned. Those on strike who continue to practice in underground clinics risk being […]
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