Water has already run out in one of the temporary gathering places for around 30,000 newly arrived refugees in South Sudan. Because the existing refugee camps in the area are full, the new refugees have had to settle at temporary gathering points, first at a place called “Km43” and then, as water...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to identify a suitable place of refuge immediately for the 30,000 new refugees who have crossed the border from Sudan’s Blue Nile State into South Sudan’s Upper Nile State over the past two weeks. Around 2,000 people...
MSF supports health structures near the border with Sudan and assists displaced people. Tensions and hostilities continue unabated between South Sudan and its northern neighbour Sudan, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its emergency response by treating people injured in the latest...
The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating patients wounded on 10 April in aerial bombardments in Abiemnom, Unity State, South Sudan. Violence has taken place in the region over the past couple of weeks and the situation remains extremely volatile. MSF’s...
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan urgently need humanitarian aid to be scaled up in a short window of opportunity that is rapidly closing before the rainy season starts, warns the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since last November, 80,000...
In the State of Jonglei in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. Wounded patients are still arriving at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Pibor, three weeks after the violent attack on the town and outlying villages in Pibor County. Many were...
Following inter-communal violence on 11th January in northern Jonglei State, South Sudan, the medical humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres referred by air thirteen patients with serious wounds from the organisation’s clinic in Yuai, Jonglei State. The patients were taken to MSF’s...
On Saturday 7 th January Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) returned to Pibor town with 12 medical and logistics staff to provide an emergency response in the aftermath of the inter-communal violence in Pibor, Jonglei State, which happened the week before. The looting of MSF’s facilities and the...
Renewed inter-communal violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan, has forced thousands of families to flee into the bush. Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical facilities have been targeted and the independent medical humanitarian organisation has had to temporarily suspend its much needed...
Six months after the birth of South Sudan as the world’s newest independent country, a series of emergencies are unfolding that require urgent humanitarian responses. The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has scaled up into full emergency mode in Upper...
