An MSF staff member who was present described a scene of utter horror as huge explosions shook the neighbourhood and women and children ran out onto the street screaming and crying.
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Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence
Burkina Faso’s North region hosts more than 100,000 internally displaced people who fled recurring violence in this part of the country. Since January 2021, MSF’s mobile teams have been offering healthcare support to people in the villages of Sirfou, Todiame, Rounga and Ouindigui, where thousands of these displaced persons have settled, but where access to […]
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Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect
Many of Tigray’s six million people live in mountainous and rural areas where they are all but invisible to the outside world.
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Israel and Palestine: The despair of vaccination inequalities
Matthias Kennes is a registered nurse, and medical referent for the MSF COVID-19 response in Hebron, West Bank
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Heavy Israeli bombing pushing Gaza to the edge of catastrophe
“The Israeli bombing is incredibly heavy and stronger than previous bombing campaigns” says Hellen Ottens-Patterson, MSF Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Responding to emergencies amid the conflict in CAR
MSF has deployed emergency teams across the country to assist people affected by the violence who live in constant fear of attack by all sides. This is what our teams found in Bossembélé, Grimari and Ippy, three areas hit by the conflict.
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As famine looms in southern Madagascar, MSF appeals for massive increase in emergency food aid
An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for people in southern Madagascar, says international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams in the region are witnessing an exceptionally severe malnutrition crisis which in some places borders on famine. “We’re seeing totally destitute people who have literally nothing to […]
Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores humanitarian needs
The following is an op-ed by Jonathan Whittal, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Director of Analysis Department in Johannesburg. Three important developments took place in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in less than six weeks, all of which will have a significant future impact on human lives. First, in mid-March the United States government designated […]
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It’s not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
With vaccines unavailable in the majority of countries worldwide, people will continue to fall ill with COVID-19 and without a significant investment in oxygen infrastructure, those whose illness is severe and who cannot access oxygen will continue to die.
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Search and rescue in Central Mediterranean: MSF urged to keep saving lives at Sea for the seventh consecutive year
MSF announces the relaunch of its search and rescue activities in the central Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees and migrants attempting the deadly sea crossing from Libya.
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