Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the violent intrusion by armed members of Afghan Special Forces in the organisation’s trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The incident is an unacceptable breach of International Humanitarian Law, which protects medical services from attacks. On Wednesday 1...
Tensions are rising in eastern Libya and, as a result, medical needs are increasing. Fighting in the region has now expanded beyond the city of Benghazi, which has been the scene of armed confrontations for more than a year, to Derna, the stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in the area, where...
"We believe that the violence will continue during Ramadan: a ceasefire won’t be implemented unless the two warring parties respect it." Jasmin Mohammed Ali (26) is a teacher in the primary school in Qatabah and her sisterAsia Mohammed Ali ( 25) talk about their daily life in Qatabah since the...
Heavy clashes between Afghan security forces and armed opposition groups in the north-eastern province of Kunduz have led to a surge in wounded arriving at Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz city. From 20 to 23 June, MSF’s medical teams treated 77 patients directly wounded in...
Fuel shortages are causing widespread disruption to everyday services, especially lifesaving medical activities in northern Syria, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Many health structures in Hama and Idlib have been forced to close or to drastically cut their activities due to a lack of fuel for...
More than 100 injured, including women and children, were received by MSF in Aden yesterday as a result of heavy shelling on the Al-Basateen residential area in the city. Since 19th March, MSF has received more than 2,500 injured in Yemen; with more than 1,800 of them in Aden alone. The situation...
An MSF-supported hospital director describes horror of a mass-casualty influx in northwestern Syria In the afternoon of 04 June 2015, a horrific missile strike devastated a town centre in Idlib Governorate, Syria. The wounded arrived in wave after wave at a nearby small makeshift hospital that is...
Yesterday afternoon, Thursday 4 June , a strike by three missiles in a town in Idlib Governorate caused carnage and resulted in a mass casualty influx of 130 wounded patients to the nearest field hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This latest incident comes after a harsh month in...
Escalating fighting in South Sudan is exposing civilans to widespread violence and severely restricting the provision of desperately needed aid, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today. An upsurge of violence in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile states has resulted in the...
