The hospitals in the northern city of Aleppo have found themselves overwhelmed after a wave of airstrikes killed over 100 people and left many more injured in the last few days, according to local medical sources. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the hospitals in the area with medical...
On December 5, 2013, several hundred people were killed during armed clashes that shook the city of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) immediately began treating patients wounded in the fighting and has since been working to provide care to the large...
Your Excellencies, Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing assistance to victims of the Syrian conflict since April 2011. We welcome the diplomatic negotiations which are needed to address the urgent humanitarian needs in this extremely violent conflict. But we would like to draw your attention...
An open letter to the United Nations As UN humanitarian organisations agree to further mobilise resources in response to the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic, MSF has released an open letter addressed to Valérie AMOS, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian...
Ms. Valerie AMOS Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator United Nations Geneva, 12 December 2013 Dear Ms. Amos, With this Open Letter, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) wishes to express its deep concern about the unacceptable performance of the United Nations...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties involved in the current conflict in the CAR to allow the wounded and ill to safely obtain the critical medical care they need. MSF calls for an end to violence against patients, civilians and medical staff working in health care facilities in...
Thousands of displaced have fled violence in Bangui, regrouping in several sites around the city. Hundreds of wounded are have been treated following attacks on the 5th of December. MSF is extending activities to continue to treat wounded and provide health services to around 14,000 displaced...
Since early this morning there have been violent clashes, shooting and explosions in a number of areas of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). Armed groups have launched an offensive on the city. The ex-Seleka forces have retaliated. There are dead bodies in the streets, according...
The massive political mobilisation seen around the issue of chemical weapons in Syria, reemphasised by the award last Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), must immediately be applied to humanitarian access, the aid organisation Médecins...
