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Khartoum, Sudan: Violent attacks force MSF to suspend activities at Bashair hospital

Posted on 9 January 2025 (10 January 2025) by melanie

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 […]

Sudan: “We don’t know where we can go”

Posted on 19 June 2024 (27 June 2024) by abubaker

Renk transit centre, located around 60 kilometres from Joda, the official entry point, hosts 13,000 refugees and returnees fleeing the war. There, living conditions are dire, with insufficient food, water, shelter, sanitation, and healthcare. About 300 kilometres away, thousands of people are facing the same conditions in the Bulukat transit centre. Dak Denj Uchol, 70 […]

Sudan: Children in a critical condition need an immediate solution

Posted on 15 May 2024 (15 May 2024) by abubaker

In the five days since intense fighting began between the RSF, Joint Forces, and SAF on Friday May 10, 454 casualties have arrived at South Hospital in El Fasher. 56 people have succumbed to their injuries, but the wounded and death toll are likely far higher since the fighting continues to be so intense that […]

MSF response to Canada’s 2024 Federal Budget: “Canada’s decision to increase its humanitarian assistance is a welcome commitment”

Posted on 19 April 2024 (19 April 2024) by

MSF watsan teams verify the water from the freshly installed water platform in the camp of Rusayo.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes Canada’s continued commitment to responding to the urgent needs of people around the world affected by crises, conflicts and other emergencies, as indicated by the additional $350 million in funding for international humanitarian assistance over the next two years that was announced in this week’s federal budget. The […]

Sudan: Exceptional number of war surgeries show suffering in Khartoum

Posted on 15 June 2023 (15 June 2023) by

Today marks two months since heavy fighting broke out in Khartoum and rapidly spread to other areas of Sudan. MSF’s surgical team working in Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum sees the suffering caused by this conflict every day. In five weeks, the team has received over 1,150 patients in the emergency room, 906 of whom […]

MSF ‘shaken and appalled’ by looting of its premises in Sudan

Posted on 23 May 2023 (8 June 2023) by

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the unacceptable harassment of its staff and the violent looting and occupation of its medical premises and supported facilities in Sudan. Staff and patients are repeatedly facing the trauma of armed groups entering and looting MSF premises with medicines, supplies and vehicles being stolen. This shocking disregard for humanitarian […]

Sudan: MSF supports wounded with medical teams and wounded trapped as intense fighting continues

Posted on 17 April 2023 (23 May 2023) by jeremy

Since Sat., April 15, intense fighting has been taking place between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan. Many people, including healthcare workers, are currently trapped. Where we are able to provide medical care, the situation is dire. Update April 21: Since publication, we […]

Sudan: MSF condemns attack on ambulance taking pregnant woman to hospital

Posted on 9 April 2021 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

In the early hours of Saturday, April 3, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to Al-Fasher Hospital in Sudan was carjacked. The passengers, which included a pregnant woman being referred to hospital for emergency treatment, had all their belongings stolen and were left by the roadside in a […]

For refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, “everyone is hungry, and everyone is tired”

Posted on 19 February 2021 (25 May 2023) by jeremy

Three months have passed since Maryam and her family fled the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia and crossed the border into Hamdayet, Sudan. Three months have passed since she and her family had their last decent meal. While the refugees in Hamdayet have many unmet needs, food concerns are overshadowing every other in this reception centre, Doctors […]

Sudan: ‘Services for refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster’

Posted on 11 January 2021 (25 May 2023) by jeremy

Hano Yagoub, MSF’s acting emergency coordinator in Gedaref, Sudan, describes the situation in Um Rakuba camp, where 15,000 people are sheltering after fleeing violence in Ethiopia

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