Following a temporary respite during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people in the Norte de Santander and Nariño regions of Colombia are experiencing high levels of violence as a result of disputes between various armed groups, including mass killings, assassinations, threats and displacement from their homes. This is having a serious impact on […]
Despite the official end of the war in 2015, Timbuktu region in northern Mali remains tense, and security incidents and criminality have had a significant impact on people’s ability to access healthcare. This in turn has led to low rates of vaccination coverage, especially among children.
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MSF has delivered a petition with more than 91,000 signatures to Canada’s Minister of Health, the Hon. Patty Hajdu.
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On the morning of Monday, October 26, an airstrike hit an area in the north of Idlib governorate (Syria). Local media outlets have reported more than 75 deaths and another 135 casualties so far. The vast majority of the injured people were immediately transferred to two hospitals, one of which is a facility co-managed by […]
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More than a month since the search and rescue vessel Sea-Watch 4 was detained in Palermo, Italy, administrative blockages continue to prevent the vessel from returning to the central Mediterranean – said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The comments come as a legal appeal is lodged by Sea-Watch, the ship’s owners, with an […]
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Following October 24’s school shooting in Kumba, South-West Cameroon, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical care in the Presbyterian General Hospital (PGH), Kumba. MSF received a total of ten patients between the ages of 10 and 15. Of these patients, five were referred to […]
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Most of the thousands of migrants returning to Venezuela arrive in the border state of Táchira, where the government has set up some 28 quarantine centres in former schools or sports halls.
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By Ilina Angelova, Humanitarian Affairs Officer for MSF on board the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 in August and September 2020.
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It was a Monday evening in July when armed men came to Fondioaga village in eastern Burkina Faso and killed a community member. The next morning they came back, murdering a second man, before continuing their killing spree in a neighbouring village. “That was when we realized that if we stayed, they would kill everyone. […]
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This is the first-hand account from Marianna Cortesi, hospital coordinator at the MSF-supported Boost provincial hospital in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.
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