Hepatitis E is spreading through refugee camps in eastern Chad where more than 550,000 Sudanese fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan have taken shelter, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The spread of hepatitis E is being exacerbated by poor sanitation and a desperate shortage of clean water in the camps, which are […]
Before April 15 of last year, I never imagined that I would find myself in Khartoum, the capital city of our country, working in a conflict zone. I am a doctor from Sudan, and I’ve worked with MSF for several years. But I’ve never seen anything like the suffering that people in my country now […]
A humanitarian crisis is escalating in Bulukat and Renk, two of the busiest transit sites in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. Thousands of people who escaped the conflict in Sudan are desperately short of essentials including clean water, food, shelter and healthcare. Overcrowded and […]
Since the start of the war in Sudan 1.6 million people have fled the country seeking safety, including an estimated 610,000 [1] who have crossed into Chad. Almost a year on in the Sila region, eastern Chad, almost 92,000[2] people, most of them Chadian returnees,[3] continue to survive in very precarious conditions, putting a strain […]
A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reveals that a catastrophic situation has unfolded in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, since the conflict in Sudan began in April 2023. All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached and MSF is calling for an immediate, coordinated and rapid scale-up […]
On Dec. 15, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched an attack on Wad Madani, Sudan, and took control of several other cities and areas in Al Jazirah state within days. Since then, more than half a million people have fled the fighting and ensuing insecurity, including about 234,000[1] internally displaced people who had previously sought […]
A retrospective mortality survey carried out among Sudanese refugees in Chad by Epicentre, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s medical research and epidemiology centre, documents the appalling scale of the wave of violence that swept through the region last June, while atrocities have continued in recent months in the region of El Geneina, the capital […]
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People displaced from Sudan sheltering in camps in eastern Chad are living in dire conditions, desperately short of clean water and decent sanitation. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing water and sanitation assistance in three camps in the border region. Some 40,000 people in Metche refugee camp are receiving just six litres […]
Read More… from Chad: MSF teams rush to find new water sources as refugees´ health risks escalate
An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people – including women and children – at risk and must be immediately reversed, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Implemented since early September, and communicated to MSF […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF says unconscionable surgical ban in Khartoum must be immediately reversed
Following increased fighting in El Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams operating across the border in eastern Chad have seen an immediate and major increase in the number of people arriving in the region. 36 wounded people were received by MSF teams over the past weekend alone. Refugees coming […]