The registered number of refugees gathering at the tiny village of Doro, as of December 7, was 21,500 and increasing daily. Anywhere from 500 to 1,000 newcomers are registering every day. The walk from their homelands in Blue Nile State, Sudan (north), took anywhere from one week to one month...
Thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan Over the past two weeks thousands of refugees have crossed the border from Sudan into the newly independent South Sudan. On Monday 28th November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started an emergency medical intervention in the village of Doro, some...
Hundreds of deaths reported, MSF facilities burned and looted The international relief organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated over 100 patients in the town of Pieri and referred another 57 to hospitals in Leer and Nasir following last week’s raid on the town of Pieri and twelve...
As South Sudan prepares to mark its official independence on Saturday 9 July, an estimated 260,000 newly displaced people continue to face emergency needs in what will be the world’s newest nation. This includes the 100,000 people who fled the mid-May bombings and fighting between northern and...
MSF teams in the South Sudanese towns of Bentiu and Malakal have treated over 30 civilians with gunshot wounds in recent days. MSF’s intervention is alongside and in coordination with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health. The civilians got caught in the crossfire of clashes between the ruling...
In Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Southern Sudan, where most people have very little access to health care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a mother and child health program. In the maternity ward of Aweil Civil Hospital, MSF teams work to reduce the maternal death rate. In the bustling maternity...
MSF treats 24 wounded Fighting in western Upper Nile and northern Jonglei, South Sudan, during the weekend led to an influx of wounded people at Malakal hospital. Medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported the Ministry of Health (MoH) facility to provide urgent medical care...
The international medical-humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is currently responding to a large influx of wounded patients, as a result of recent clashes that began on Wednesday 9 February in Upper Nile State, southern Sudan. In collaboration with the International Committee...
Hundreds of fat cows with beautiful harp-shaped horns graze on either side of the unpaved and dusty road of Gograil West County. Each cow is someone's prized possession, but although the animals are well cared for, the health of mothers and children in this parched region is too often neglected...
It is a cruel irony for the people of Southern Sudan that the whole world is now fully focused on the potential fallout of this weekend’s referendum on secession from the North, while the ongoing emergencies facing the region since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) six years...
