UN Security Council & African States must act now to halt violence and scale-up humanitarian aid The extreme levels of violence against civilians and targeted killing of minority groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) illustrates the utter failure of international efforts to protect the...
Since early December, MSF has provided medical care to over 1,000 patients wounded by violence in and around Bangui airport, where approximately 100,000 displaced people have taken refuge from a wave of fighting that has spread across the country. In the past week alone, 100 patients were treated...
Since February 1, in Carnot, southwestern Central African Republic (CAR), nearly 1,000 people, mostly Muslim, have been trapped, surrounded and threatened by the self-defense militias known as anti-Balakas. MSF has been working in Carnot since 2010 and has been a direct witness to the violence and...
José Mas Campos, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Bangui, Central African Republic. He wrote this account of his experiences there in December last year. The situation today has not improved. The shuddering thunder of anti-aircraft guns and submachine guns went on non-stop in the distance until it died...
“Between the constant tension and the many serious wounds, this was my most difficult mission” Jessie GAFFRIC is coordinator of MSF’s project at the Bangui Community Hospital, where the organization performs emergency surgery for victims of the confrontations, abuses and violence rocking the city...
Muslim communities threatened in many towns, forced to leave the country Over the past weeks the extreme violence in the Central African Republic has reached intolerable and unprecedented levels, said the international medical-humanitarian organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The whole...
Escalating violence, revenge killings, arson and looting in the Central African Republic have displaced more than 900, 000 civilians, according to UNOCHA. The morning of Thursday 30th January saw 8 000 displaced Muslim people in Bossangoa preparing to load their families and possessions on a fleet...
Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, has been in the grip of violence for weeks but most of the city’s hospitals are no longer functioning. MSF project coordinator Jessie GAFFRIC describes the situation. She is managing our operations in the city’s only trauma unit, located in the...
MSF reiterates its call for the respect of civilians, medical staff and health facilities Despite the presence of international armed forces in the capital of Central African Republic (CAR), fighting, lynchings and violent attacks are still a daily occurrence in Bangui, and the situation in the...
Following days of relative calm as international forces attempt to disarm armed groups in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic, on 20th December renewed violence prompted waves of wounded once more to arrive at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) projects around the city. In last 4 days, MSF has...
