During a week of intense violence that preceeded the arrest of former Ivory Coast president Laurent GBAGBO on April 11, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team working at the Abobo Sud Hospital in northern Abidjan was isolated and unable to obtain additional supplies from the outside. Delphine...
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The medical and humanitarian emergency in Ivory Coast persists as violence rages in several neighbourhoods in Abidjan, and security in the west of the country remains critically unstable, with populations hiding in fear in the bush without access to food, water or medical aid. Médecins Sans...
Hundreds of people died and hundreds of others were seriously wounded during an outbreak of violence that occurred in the Duékoué region of western Ivory Coast between March 28 and 30. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgical team treated many of the war wounded at nearby Bangolo Hospital, following...
As traffic starts to circulate around Abidjan once again, the wounded continue to arrive at Abobo Sud hospital where MSF is working. Having been restricted to the hospital for the past 10 days, the team is now extending activities. Interview with Issoufou SALHA, MSF head of mission: What have the...
Following the post-election crisis in Ivory Coast, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) restarted activities in December 2010. MSF teams are providing people with medical assistance and supporting hospitals in several locations in Ivory Coast as well as on the other side of the border in neighbouring...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called today on the warring forces in Ivory Coast to take all necessary measures to ensure that people can safely reach medical facilities and that MSF medical teams can travel freely in the city of Abidjan and other...
Issoufou SALHA, MSF Head of Mission in Abidjan, Ivory Coast explains the difficulty to treat patients in Abidjan and in the West of Ivory Coast. How do MSF teams manage to work in Abidjan? We have been stuck in the offices and at the hospital for the last three days. We can hear gun shots, there...
The situation remains extremely tense and violent in and around several cities in western Ivory Coast, despite the ending of major fighting on March 31 between armed forces in the area. Many wounded people suffering from gunshot or machete wounds have arrived in hospitals in the western towns of...
