Michiel Hofman, MSF Senior Humanitarian Specialist Shocking numbers of civilians are being killed and injured in Syria, with little accountability from the States involved – and in particular the United Nations Security Council, the majority of whose members are backing rival sides in the war. In...
The war in Yemen is being fought with total disregard for the rules of war, according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which has seen three of its health facilities in Yemen come under attack in the last three months. “The way war is being waged in Yemen is causing...
At around 16h local time yesterday afternoon, 21 January, the ambulance service of the MSF-supported Al Gomhoury Hospital in Saada governorate, Yemen, was hit by an airstrike, killing one Ministry of Health (MOH) staff member. The incident took place in Dhayan, about 20 kilometres from the city of...
After five months of intense negotiations with officials , Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was able on Saturday January 16, to get a delivery of two trucks full of essential medical supplies into the besieged area of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Checkpoints and...
An MSF supported hospital has been hit by a projectile in Northern Yemen causing at least four dead and 10 injured and the collapse of several buildings of the medical facility. Three of the injured are MSF staff two in critical condition. According to our staff on the ground, at 9:20am one...
In the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, more than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, around half of them in the capital, Sana’a.
Despite denials by the Saudi-led coalition, it is beyond doubt that it struck and destroyed a hospital supported by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haydan, Yemen, on October 26, MSF said today, adding that the hospital...
Airstrikes carried out late last night by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen destroyed a hospital supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), MSF announced today. The small hospital, in the Haydan district in Saada Province, was hit by several airstrikes beginning at 10:30 last night...
