Amidst bombing of south Kordofan village, MSF facility attacked During an aerial attack on a Sudanese village, Sudan’s air force bombed and partially destroyed a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the war-torn South Kordofan region Monday, depriving civilians of critical medical care...
Fifteen-year old Sameera* had already been in labour for two days when her family decided to leave the valleys and farming plots of Jurajeem to seek the help of a doctor. After a day’s journey they arrived in Um Baru, a town in the Dar Zaghawa region of Sudan, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Jordan MSF has opened a 24-hour paediatric hospital with an operational capacity of 30 beds and 3 emergency beds. in Zaatari Camp where more than 100,000 Syrian refugees are settled here. The hospital shall receive cases of children patients of one month up to 10 years old. Libya In response to an...
Tribal clashes over the ownership of a gold mine have already forced nearly 100,000 people from their homes in the Jebel Amir region of Sudan’s North Darfur this year. A decade has passed since the Darfur conflict began, and there are still dire medical needs in the region. Despite efforts to...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties in the Central African Republic to allow patients to reach medical facilities, receive the medical care they need and calls to respect medical staff, offices and health structures. As the opposition group known as Seleka takes charge of the...
The first phase of a yellow fever vaccination campaign, targeting 2.2 million people in the region of Darfur, ended on December 4, 2012. Launched by the Sudanese health authorities, the international, medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) brought medical and logistical...
“What we are facing is an extremely serious situation” About 100,000 refugees fleeing the fighting in the Sudanese state of Blue Nile have taken refuge in Maban County in South Sudan. They are weak and exhausted after their long trip. In the camp of Batil, home for 34,000 people, malnutrition is...
MSF forced to suspend lifesaving medical activities after restrictions imposed on its work As a result of increasing restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend most of its medical activities in the...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams struggle to provide urgent medical assistance following violent clashes in the Abyei region of Sudan as the security situation continues to deteriorate. The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is responding to the...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently responding to the consequences of fighting in the Abyei region, in Sudan. Following violent clashes, the MSF hospital in Agok, 40 kilometres south of Abyei, received 42 wounded during the night between...
