MSF confirms that on Sunday, 15 March, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) carried out attacks on Banda, a village in Haut Uélé, northern DRC. MSF has been providing treatment for patients with Sleeping Sickness for almost a year in Banda, a village 150km southwest of Doruma. "The majority of the MSF...
Four Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, kidnapped on 12 March (Hong Kong time) from Serif Umra, North Darfur, Sudan, were safely released early this morning, 15 March (Hong Kong time) 2009. Canadian nurse Laura ARCHER, Italian doctor Mauro D'ASCANIO, French Coordinator Raphaël MEUNIER and...
MSF cannot confirm reports that our team, abducted on Thursday March 12(Hong Kong time) from Serif Umra, North Darfur, has been released. MSF can only confirm that earlier this morning(Hong Kong time), Saturday 14 March, we were informed of the possible release of our team. However, since we heard...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for minimum standards in the reception of migrants and asylum seekers, as set out in European legislation, and denounces the systematic detention of asylum seekers and vulnerable groups of migrants such as pregnant women and children The international...
All abducted staff in good health following new contact Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that today, Friday March 13, we managed to speak again to our colleagues, abducted on Thursday March 12 (Hong Kong time) from Serif Umra, North Darfur, Sudan. MSF confirms that they are in good health...
Christopher Stokes, General Director for the Belgium section of MSF Yesterday evening, armed men entered the MSF compound in Serif Umra, took 5 MSF staff hostage, abducted 5 MSF staff. 2 immediately released, 2 Sudanese staff were immediately released. The 3 international staff, one Italian doctor...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today, Thursday 12 March 09, confirms reports that three of their international staff were abducted early this morning (Hong Kong time) in Serif Umra, the Sudanese province of North Darfur. Two MSF Sudanese staff were also taken at the same time. However, they have...
Half of the MSF teams working in Darfur were expelled by the Sudanese government last week. Lydia GEIRSDOTTIR worked as MSF Project Coordinator in Kalma Camp for nine months and has just returned home to Iceland. Below she describes how the expulsion will affect the tens of thousands of people...
Twenty-eight international aid workers arrived recently in Paris and Amsterdam after the French and Dutch sections of Médecins Sans Frontières were expelled from northern Sudan. These two sections represented half of the MSF staff working in Darfur. They are all worried about the future of those...
Major Medical Programs Forced to Halt Activities; People of Darfur Held Hostage to Political and Judicial Agendas MSF Calls Upon the Government of Sudan to Repeal its Decision and Allow Vital Assistance to the People of Darfur to Resume The Sudanese authorities in Khartoum demanded the immediate...
