Sexual violence has become a public health issue in Central African Republic (CAR) over the past decade, with women and minors being the most affected groups. In a country marked by years of civil...
NEW YORK/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 12, 2021---Hundreds of children are falling ill with measles in Zabarmari, a small town in Nigeria's conflict-affected Borno state, the international medical...
TRIPOLI, LIBYA – One person was killed and two were injured in the early hours of 8 April after a shooting took place in a detention centre where refugees and migrants are held, in Tripoli, Libya...
I. Overview and background With the recent increase of COVID 19 cases in conflict affected zones of Eastern Ukraine, impact on overwhelmed health services (i.e. bed occupancy as well as laboratories...
In the early hours of Saturday 3 April, a clearly marked MSF ambulance, travelling from Rokero to Al-Fasher Hospital in Sudan, was carjacked. The passengers, which included a pregnant woman who was...
Thousands of asylum seekers who fled South Sudan have been stuck for months in appalling conditions in a reception center in Ethiopia’s Gambella region without meaningful access to essential...
By Ana de Lemos, Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Brazil Even for an organization like MSF, for which combating epidemics is a central task, the COVID-19...
The Rohingya people live in northern Rakhine state (formerly Arakan), located in western coastal Union of Myanmar (formerly Union of Burma) bordering Bangladesh to the north. The stateless Rohingya...
Amparo Vilasmil is MSF mental health activity manager in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. She is part of a team operating in Montepuez, the second most populous city in the province and one of the...
Dr. Faisal H. Omar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in northwestern Syria, recently visited the Afrin and Azaz areas in western Aleppo province. Hundreds of...