On Aug. 24, 2023, the Canadian government finally released an outcomes document from the Pandemic Instrument Partner and Stakeholder Engagement Forum it held March 21 to 22, with more than 160 participants from multiple sectors. We both attended representing Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). During the intervening five months, multiple rounds of negotiations of […]
For hundreds of thousands of displaced people living in camps around Goma, survival is a daily struggle, especially for women. Every day, around 701 women who are survivors of sexual assault present themselves at the structures set up by MSF in the Lushagala, Bulengo, Elohim, Shabindu, Rusayo and Kanyaruchinya sites – an unacceptable situation. The […]
Read More… from DRC: The daily struggles of women in Goma’s displacement camps
Since floods lashed eastern Libya more than a week ago, estimated figures are that nearly 10,000 people are missing and at least 5,000 people are dead. Derna, a port city in eastern Libya, was the worst hit after two dams burst killing thousands. According to the UN, about 30,000 people — one third of its […]
In Jonglei state, northeastern South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are rushing four critically ill patients by ambulance boat to the MSF hospital in Old Fangak. Among the people on the boat, Nya Sibet Mar is holding her two-year-old daughter, Nya Thor, who is suffering from severe malaria. It is the second […]
On Sept. 8, a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco at 11 p.m. local time. So far, more than 2,000 lives have been lost. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely saddened by the tragic news of the earthquake that has hit Morocco and the high number of victims already reported. What is MSF doing? Earthquake […]
Humanitarian assistance must be urgently expanded in the region and governments must take action to prevent death and suffering along this route. The number of people that have crossed the dangerous jungle region between Colombia and Panama in 2023 has now reached 320,000. On Aug. 22, more than 4,800 migrants were at the arrival […]
Read More… from Panama: Urgent aid needed to respond to influx of migrants arriving
In Sudan, where military operations have now entered their fifth month, MSF has been supporting the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum since mid-May. Although there was a risk that MSF would twice have to end it support to this hospital, it has been possible for MSF teams to maintain and even expand their support – in […]
Read More… from The Turkish Hospital in Khartoum: a lifeline for sick children and pregnant women
After an explosion yesterday in a marketplace in Kostiantynivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to urgent medical needs of people injured in the attack. At Kostiantynivka hospital, where MSF supports the Ministry of Health emergency department, 34 patients were admitted, with 15 of these classified […]
Read More… from Ukraine: 34 patients hospitalized after deadly attack on marketplace
Once, in villages within Rakhine State in western Myanmar, the Rohingya community lived, raising families and pursuing livelihoods. However, that existence was shattered on Aug. 25, 2017, when a wave of targeted violence and persecution forced the Rohingya to flee their homes. The Rohingya people are persecuted Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar. Forced to flee […]
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Humanitarian workers, patients and their caretakers are suffering unbearable levels of violence perpetrated by local armed groups while moving around the town of Batangafo, in northern Central African Republic (CAR), says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Two grave incidents in the space of less than a week are jeopardising our ability to continue providing […]