a village has become cemetery Between the 4 and last 9 October, the Guatemala coastline and the mountain areas in the west of the country were struck by torrential rains with Hurricane Stan. Mudslides occurred almost everywhere in the country, causing the death of several hundred people and the...
"The spilling over of violence into Kabardino-Balkaria could worsen the already very difficult humanitarian situation in the Caucasus." MSF has supplied emergency medical kits to the main hospital in the Southern Russian city of Nalchik, where fighting between government forces and rebels broke out...
MSF has a staff of three who recently arrived in the Pakistani area to start a project on safe motherhood. The focus now is to mobilize more staff and supplies to the region. An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale struck in the north of Pakistan yesterday, just 80 kms north of the...
Nutritional survey in the Zinder region reveals a worsening situation, with little to indicate that the alarming conditions will improve in the near future. Tens of thousands of children in Niger still require immediate nutritional assistance, according to the international medical aid agency...
10th September. Day off. I had been in Darfur for nearly two weeks. A sacrifice to pay for working in surroundings with a security problem was to give up freedom. I spent practically the whole day inside the compound. The sun was nice.
The situation will likely get worse before it gets better When MSF arrived, there were 10 patients in a hastily constructed cholera camp in Riyad, just south from the capital. But, with the main water supply thought to be infected, in one day 137 new patients arrived. The situation will likely get...
3rd September, my forth day in El Geneina, Darfur. In the afternoon, a rainstorm came. It lasted for at least half an hour. Some people sought shelter back in their rooms. I held fort on the veranda in the middle of the compound.
