Following increased fighting in El Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur, Médecins Sans Frontières teams operating across the border in eastern Chad have seen an immediate and major increase in the number of people arriving in the region. 36 wounded people were received by MSF teams over the past weekend...
People seeking safety in Europe are being met on Greece’s Aegean islands with aggression, degrading treatment and physical violence, including being beaten, handcuffed, strip-searched, having their possessions confiscated, and forcibly sent back to sea, according to reports received by Médecins...
On Tuesday 19 September, Azerbaijan launched an attack on various areas in Nagorno-Karabakh. The region is a self-proclaimed republic internationally recognised as belonging to Azerbaijan, but which has traditionally been home to many ethnic Armenians. After a ceasefire agreement was reached 24...
On Tuesday 19 September, Azerbaijan launched an attack on several locations in Nagorno-Karabakh. Twenty-four hours later, a ceasefire was announced by all parties, followed by people moving to look for safety inside and outside the region. Armenian authorities reported on Wednesday 27 September...
Humanitarian organisations must urgently scale up their response to ease the difficulties faced by people fleeing the conflict from Sudan to Upper Nile state in South Sudan, says Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF). Thousands of returnees have been arriving sick and exhausted at...
In the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is partnering with a Rohingya community to bear witness to the challenges, experiences and survival of Rohingya people. Laid out on a wooden panel in the backyard of an MSF health...
Six years after an unprecedented exodus of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, medical needs in the world's largest refugee camp remain pressing and care increasingly inadequate. In a global context marked by multiple large-scale humanitarian crises, international funding allocated to the...
After the start of the war in mid-April in Sudan, 13,800 people fleeing violence arrived in CAR, according to the UN: they are mostly Sudanese refugees, but also Central African nationals who had fled their country during different periods of crisis. While the first refugees chose to settle in the...
[Update on 7/7] On July 3-5, Israeli forces conducted a military raid in this northern West Bank city that left 12 dead and caused considerable material damage. MSF staff assessed humanitarian needs in Jenin's refugee camp on July 6, and donated emergency and trauma supplies to a community...
Following the shipwreck of 14 June which left up to 500 people dead or missing off the coast of Greece, Médecins Sans Frontieres denounces EU migration policies and calls for accountability over the lives lost and for a dedicated, proactive, state-led search and rescue mechanism at sea. “The lack...
