As violence escalates in a refugee camp on the Tunisia-Libya border, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed about the situation of refugees stranded in temporary camps and exposed to violence. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have passed through Shousha camp since the start of the Libyan...
MSF criticises inconsistent European policies claiming to protect civilians by engaging in a war while closing its borders to them An open letter by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) addressed to the leaders of the states of the European Union involved in the war in Libya is being published today in...
(This letter was sent to Heads of State or Governments of Member States of the European Union, to Presidents of European Institutions, and to the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Organisation for Migration. It was...
Since 30 April, an MSF team is working in the hospital of Zintan, a city located in western Libya, south west of the capital of Tripoli, in the Nafusah Mountain region. For weeks now, Zintan and the surrounding area have been the battleground between pro-Gaddafi forces and the insurgency, fighting...
The general situation in Libya remains extremely tense and uncertain. In the country’s third city Misrata, the situation is very volatile: after the rebels claimed to have captured the city’s airport on Wednesday 11 May, the conditions seemed to slightly improve in some areas but over the weekend,...
Written by Alison CRIADO-PEREZ, Head Nurse on both MedEvac boat operations from Misrata to Tunisia: We had just returned from MSF’s second evacuation of war-wounded from the besieged city of Misrata to the safety of hospitals in Tunisia. I walked out onto the balcony and saw a small, blonde girl,...
Even as the bombings continue, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are ramping up their medical activities and have been performing surgeries in the northern part of the besieged city of Misrata. For the past two months, government forces and insurgents have been battling over the city of Misrata...
Once again, international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on Italian authorities to drastically improve reception conditions for new arrivals, particularly for the most vulnerable - women, children, unaccompanied minors and victims of violence. At the weekend 12 boats...
A 12-person Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team is working in Kasr Ahmed hospital, in the besieged village of Misrata, setting up medical and surgical activities and providing support to the Al Hikma hospital. An MSF team arrived in Misrata on Thursday, April 28, to strengthen the three-person team...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) evacuated 99 people, including 64 war-wounded and 35 accompanying persons, by boat on Friday 15 April from Misrata to Zarzis, Tunisia. This operation took place two weeks after a first boat evacuation of 71 war-wounded people by the international medical organisation...
