Blogs & Stories

Kate Nolan, MSF emergency coordinator in Bangladesh Bangladesh has received nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees since 25 August 2017. They join tens of thousands who were already in the country from previous periods of tension and violence in...

Since August 2017, near 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have crossed the border to escape violence there. Ian Cross is a doctor working with Doctor Without Borders / MSF in a health clinic treating refugees. He shares the story of a very...

Kate White, Emergency Medical Coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières in Bangladesh “Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of people crammed along a narrow peninsula trying to find what shelter they can. It’s essentially a massive rural slum...

The first surprise was the sheer size of the attack on Marawi City by pro- Islamic State fighters. The crisis since – with 360,000 people displaced, and heavy combat into its fifth month – is equally unprecedented, leaving the Mindanao region of the...

Despite the end of Colombia’s 50-year long conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) in November 2016, the country still faces many challenges. Other armed groups and criminal organizations are still active...