The economic crisis has been the last straw in a highly vulnerable region South-western Central African Republic currently faces a serious nutritional emergency. The crisis in the mining industry, on which many of the region inhabitants depend, has been the last straw for an already highly...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) is currently responding to the cholera outbreak affecting Papua New Guinea. In the country’s first outbreak in fifty years, MSF is assisting the Ministry of Health in treating patients in a specially constructed...
Following four days of heavy rains in Niger’s northern Air Mountains, severe floods have wreaked havoc in the city of Agadez on Tuesday 1 September. MSF teams present in the city started providing emergency assistance in order to meet the urgent needs of the affected population. “The situation in...
Since 19th August, joint Ministry of Health and MSF teams have been providing medical care to patients with acute watery diarrhea in and around the city of Addis Ababa. In collaboration with Ethiopian health authorities, MSF has set up a total of eight treatment facilities within Ministry of Health...
A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, who went missing following an armed robbery at the MSF compound in Adé in the east of Chad, has been safely released. The international staff member was set free unharmed following 29 days in captivity at an unknown location, held by an unidentified...
As displaced people return home to the Swat Valley and Buner district, MSF is increasing its support to local health care providers in Mardan and Lower Dir districts to respond to a sharp increase in cases of acute diarrhoea. More than one million people fled the recent fighting between Pakistani...
Since September last year inhabitants of the Haut Uélé district in north-eastern DRC have been living in constant fear and are facing a critical humanitarian situation. They are trapped in a region wracked by waves of violence. The conflict between armed forces and the Ugandan rebel group the Lord’...
In Colombia hundreds of thousands of people are constantly on the move, and live in a state of permanent displacement. The violent conflict to which the country’s population has been subjected to for decades has left deep marks in the society, forcing thousands to uproot their families. The...
In the north of Yemen, a ‘sixth war’ between the army and the Al Houthi rebels began on Tuesday, 11 August. Once again the population is subjected to violence and deprived of health care. Our teams are caring for the wounded and attempt to bring assistance to the displaced as much as the security...
