By Aurélie Ponthieu, Humanitarian Specialist for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
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Borno state, Nigeria: Difficult living conditions and frequent clashes
Gwoza, a garrison town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, is home to 60,000 people, many of them displaced from their homes elsewhere by the conflict. Living conditions are difficult, there is little humanitarian aid, and frequent clashes take place between the military and armed groups. Many people in Gwoza have witnessed acts of violence or […]
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Search and Rescue: 11 days after the first rescue, the Sea-Watch 4 is allocated a port of safety
MSF humanitarian affairs advisor, Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui provides an overview.
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Central African Republic: During the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria remains the number one killer of children
The hospital in Batangafo – a town of 31,000 people, including 22,000 displaced from elsewhere in the Central African Republic – is bustling with activity.
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Greece: Fire destroys Europe’s largest refugee camp
Approximately 12,000 men, women, and children urgently need a safe place to stay.
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“The explosion did not distinguish between its victims and neither should the aid response”
An interview with Jonathan Whittall, former MSF emergency coordinator in Beirut and director of MSF’s Analysis Department.
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DRC: Responding to the new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province
On June 1, 2020, a new Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was declared in Équateur province, western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s eleventh recorded epidemic. Declared while DRC was still grappling with the tenth Ebola epidemic in the country’s northeast, and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new Ebola outbreak has already spread to […]
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Mexico: Asylum seekers stranded in Matamoros tent camp face threat of COVID-19
More than 2,000 asylum seekers sheltering in a camp in Matamoros, at the Mexican border with Texas, are now dealing with even more fear and uncertainty as the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Mexico and the government fails to take decisive action. These people are living in tents packed closely together, unable to practice social distancing and with […]
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COVID-19 in Mexico: MSF opens two centres in Reynosa & Matamoros
The two centres are housed in Tamaulipas State University basketball gymnasiums.
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Living in limbo: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh three years after the main exodus
“Spending our lives in the camps is difficult; the area is small and there is no space for the children to play,” says Abu Siddik. He lives in one of the camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of south-eastern Bangladesh, where around 860,000 Rohingya refugees are crammed into just 26 square kilometres (km) of land. […]
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