"We are requesting a peaceful resolution and call for humane treatment for our colleagues." The two international medical staff working for the international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who were detained by force by a group of armed persons on December 26...
"Our priority now is that our two colleagues are released without harm" After confirming that two staff members have been taken by force in the morning of 26th December in Bossaso, Somalia, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has urgently called for...
Three years after the Tsunami, Phang Nga province, near the popular island of Phuket in Thailand, is undergoing an impressive economic recovery. Luxury hotels and resorts have been rebuilt and many migrants have come from nearby Myanmar to work in construction sites, rubber plantations or fisheries...
Maung Shwe Tain – 28 year old 28 year-old Maung Shwe Tain spends an average of 23 days a month at sea. He is one of thousands of Burmese fishermen working in Phang Nga, southern Thailand. "We start in the evening, work all night long and come back in the morning. It's hard, very physical and the...
Acute malnutrition in early childhood is common in large areas of the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, and South Asia - the world's "malnutrition hotspots." Every year, malnutrition is associated with the deaths of five million children under the age of five. Recently, an effective response has emerged...
Every year, tuberculosis (TB) kills an estimated two million people and another nine million develop the disease. In spite of the rising human toll, there have been no advances in treatment since the 1960s and the most commonly used diagnostic test - sputum smear microscopy - was developed in 1882...
Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 People struggling to survive violence, forced displacement, and disease in the Central African Republic (CAR), Somalia, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere often went underreported in the news this year and much of the past decade, according to the 10th annual...
On November 29, the Ugandan Ministry of Health confirmed a case of Ebola in the western region of the country. After a rapid assessment, on December 1, MSF set up isolation units in the Kikyo health center and the Bundibugyo hospital. Currently, two outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been...
Caught in the middle of fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE), civilians in Sri Lanka's eastern and northern regions live in terror. Sri Lanka has been in the grips of this fighting on and off for nearly 25 years, but the conflict has received very...
