With only a few health facilities still functioning in Darfur, pregnant women face harrowing journeys to seek care. Insecurity, checkpoints and unaffordable or unavailable transportation force them to undertake day-long treks on foot or donkey, often resulting in delivery complications, miscarriage or death. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operates in ten out of Sudan’s […]
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Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver essential aid. The war in Sudan is above all a “war on people,” Lockyear […]
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Since Feb. 20, when the latest cholera outbreak started in Sudan’s White Nile State, until March 5, a total of 2,718 cases have been admitted to the Ministry of Health cholera treatment centre at Kosti teaching hospital, which is supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Sadly, 92 of these patients have died. This […]
Read More… from Sudan: Cholera outbreak, over 2,700 treated and 92 dead
The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people ur is making it impossible for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions. Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF forced to halt activities as violence engulfed Zamzam camp
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in three different parts of Sudan – Khartoum, North Darfur and South Darfur states – treated mass influxes of wounded people as the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued, with little respect shown for civilian life. On Feb. 4, in […]
Read More… from Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals, “war on people” continues
International donors, the United Nations (UN), Sudan’s warring parties and their allies must act now to prevent even more avoidable deaths from malnutrition in Sudan, as the already catastrophic situation is expected to worsen this year, according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Half of Sudan’s population faces high levels of acute food insecurity […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation
On the morning of Feb. 1, a Rapid Support Forces explosive hit a market in Omdurman, Khartoum state, causing a scene of devastation at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) supported Al Nao hospital as patients, dead bodies and family members arrived at the hospital. The Ministry of Health said the attack killed 54 […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF responds to attack in Khartoum after 54 killed, others injured
On Jan. 10, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance was shot at in El Fasher, North Darfur, by an unknown gunman while referring a female patient in labor requiring emergency surgical procedure from MSF field hospital in Zamzam camp to Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, the only public hospital with surgical capacity still […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns ongoing violent attacks on patients and staff at Bashair Teaching Hospital, located in a Rapid Support Forces-controlled area of Khartoum. Despite extensive engagements with all stakeholders, these attacks have continued in recent months. MSF has now taken the very difficult decision to suspend all medical activities in the […]
Read More… from Khartoum, Sudan: Violent attacks force MSF to suspend activities at Bashair hospital
As South Sudan receives a massive influx of tens of thousands of people fleeing the intensified war in Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its response to the humanitarian crisis in Renk and surrounding informal settlements along the border. Over the last weeks the number of recently displaced people has surpassed […]