Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of Saeed MAHDI, and recognizes that he has now been granted access to a lawyer. MSF firmly maintains that Saeed Mahdi was working with the organisation in the capacity of driver and translator. We remain concerned about the circumstances in which...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today condemned an armed raid on its premises in Bahrain and the subsequent detention of one of its staff members. On July 28, armed security personnel violently raided MSF’s premises in Manama, damaging office...
Humanitarian crisis calls for extension of moratorium on deportations Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gravely concerned that South African authorities’ strategies to address migration do nothing to resolve the greater humanitarian crisis surrounding vulnerable migrants, refugees, and asylum...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency nutrition project in the Turkana district in northwestern Kenya on July 18. Teams are working in two areas in Turkana—Lapur and Kibish divisions—where few humanitarian agencies have been present. MSF relief teams need your help with a gift...
“I had no choice. My youngest son Eliezer was going out like a candle.” In a roughly constructed building with walls, floor and roof made from lengths of plastic sheeting, a worried father sits by his son’s side on a low bed. The main ward of MSF’s Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) in Mbandaka, the...
Medical humanitarian organisation, Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the relocation of Somali refugees in Dadaab to Ifo 3 extension camp. The relocation, which began yesterday under the auspices of the UNHCR, has been carried out with little transparency or consultation with...
In light of the worsening nutritional crisis in Somalia, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges all parties inside Somalia, neighbouring countries and the international community to significantly improve the assistance to the Somali population in the region...
Recent headlines worldwide reported on the US government’s use of a fake vaccination program for counter-terrorism purposes. Using medical aid as a camouflage for military advantage threatens the lives of patients in the most precarious and embattled places worldwide. Whether this story is true or...
While more than 2000 Somalis cross the borders into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself the movement of people desperately seeking food and medical help is also taking unseen proportions. MSF teams in Somalia are dealing with fast-rising numbers of displaced...
“It’s only lunchtime and we’ve already admitted 151 children today.” MSF relief teams need your help with a gift towards the current emergency relief work for crisis in Somalia and its consequences. Please donate now! Dr Hussein Sheikh QASSIM works in the Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) hospital in...
