South Sudan

Apr 07, 2023

MSF Academy for Healthcare in South Sudan: Upskilling Healthcare Workers to Save Lives

Changkuoth Yoal is a nurse recently graduated from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Academy for Healthcare in Lankien, Jonglei state in South Sudan. In a region severely affected by intercommunal conflict and a fragile health system, Changkuoth is among the 88 learners who have successfully completed...

Oct 27, 2022

Toward more responsive and responsible humanitarian action: MSF Policy Brief in 2022 Lancet Countdown Report

As a medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) witnesses firsthand the impacts of climate change, and how they threaten people’s health. In our emergency interventions, we are responding to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and...

Ngueny Deng Pal

Oct 11, 2022

A new start: Counselling in South Sudan

When a young woman arrives at the MSF hospital in Lankien, medical treatment is not the only care she needs. Mental health supervisor Ngueny Deng Pal shares the story…

Jul 21, 2022

South Sudan: The world's first vaccination campaign to control an outbreak of hepatitis E

Starting in March 2022, MSF and South Sudan's Ministry of Health have jointly carried out a hepatitis E vaccination campaign in Bentiu in South Sudan's Unity State. © Peter Caton/MSF

In a global first, health workers in South Sudan have carried out a vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of hepatitis E, raising hopes in the fight against a disease that is especially fatal for pregnant women. Hepatitis E is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis, causing...

Moses Soro

Jul 20, 2022

From child refugee to MSF field worker - Moses Soro’s story

Moses Soro is an MSF Finance & HR Manager based in the UK. From child refugee to MSF field worker, he shares his story…

Plumpy’nut. I hadn’t seen it for decades.

Apr 20, 2022

South Sudan: Renewed violence in Leer leads to dozens killed, including MSF staff member

The latest violence that erupted on the 4th April 2022 in Leer County in South Sudan has resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians, including a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member. This is the second MSF staff member that has been killed in Leer due to extreme violence since December...

Mar 04, 2022

MSF condemns armed robbery and burning of MSF vehicles near Yei, South Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the brazen armed robbery of one of its medical teams and the burning of two of its vehicles on the road outside of Yei, South Sudan, during the morning of 28 February 2022. Due to this incident, MSF has had to immediately suspend its movements to...

Jan 06, 2022

South Sudan: hundreds of thousands still living in precarious conditions months after floods

Eight months on since flooding began, people in Unity State, northern South Sudan, continue to suffer, stuck in poor living conditions and at risk of outbreaks of infectious and waterborne diseases. Spread across several makeshift camp sites, they face food insecurity, a loss of income,...

Nov 23, 2021

South Sudan: Severe floods and lacklustre humanitarian response leave people dangerously exposed in Bentiu

People in Bentiu in northern South Sudan are facing outbreaks to infectious and waterborne diseases, increased food insecurity and malnutrition, due to some of the most severe floods in decades. A failure from humanitarian organisations and authorities to scale up quickly enough in response has...

Jul 16, 2021

South Sudan at 10: review of the decade and people’s outlook

On 9 July 2021, the Republic of South Sudan marked its tenth birthday. This significant milestone is also marred by the bloody legacy of its first decade, including a five-year civil war. At this very moment, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a new report titled South Sudan at 10: an MSF...