More than 20,000 people are almost cut off from aid in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state after fleeing violence in the disputed border region with Sudan, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. Food and drinking water is in short supply and the people in the camps are living in...
An outbreak of malaria in Lulingu (South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo) is affecting large numbers of people, prompting an emergency response by MSF, whose teams have treated more than 2,500 people since the start of May. Local authorities initially feared they were facing an outbreak of...
Thousands At-Risk of Death as Rainy and Malaria Season Approaches An estimated120,000 people have fled fighting in and around the main towns in Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state and are now hiding in unsafe and malaria-infested swamps without access to safe drinking water, food, or...
by Thok JOHNSON When I was nine-years-old, my family was forced to escape Sudan. That was in 1986. I still remember the fear that was around at the time. We heard that more and more people in the South were being persecuted and abused, even small children. So almost everybody in our village packed...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the destruction at its hospital in Pibor town, South Sudan, purposefully conducted to render the hospital inoperative. This leaves around 100,000 people, who had fled into the bush seeking safety from the conflict between the SPLA (South Sudan Army)...
MSF teams have just completed a preventive cholera vaccination campaign in and around the refugee camps in Maban County, South Sudan. 105,000 refugees in four camps and 27,500 residents of the area were vaccinated, with the aim of preventing possible cholera cases. With the cooperation of the South...
An epidemic of hepatitis E is escalating across refugee camps in Maban County, South Sudan. So far MSF has treated 3991 patients in its health facilities in the camps and has recorded 88 deaths, including 15 pregnant women. Hepatitis E is a virus that causes liver disease and can lead to acute...
Jason VAN DYKE is a logistician from Canada, working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Lankien, Jonglei state. Jonglei has been hit heavily by flooding this year and MSF has been providing assistance to people in affected areas in and around Lankien in the state’s north. In October, Jason and...
