Stranded in the desert of Kenya’s northeastern province, surrounded by mile upon mile of sand and scrubby bushes, 30,000 people are living in makeshift shelters under a burning sun. The families – having crossed the border from neighbouring Somalia, 80 km away – are headed for the refugee camps of...
MSF has begun to support the construction and rehabilitation of two clinics in the disaster-affected area of northeast Japan, where MSF staff have been working for the last three months. While the government’s recovery efforts continue following the devastating March 11th earthquake and tsunami, it...
An MSF staff member detained for weeks in Bahrain was released uncharged on the 11th of June 2011. Saeed Mahdi was arrested in Bahrain on the 6th May 2011, neither his lawyer nor family were granted access to him throughout his detention period. MSF welcomes the release of its employee, and asserts...
“He took a machete and struck me on the throat…” “Many of the houses in my village were burned…” “There are corpses and bones of people there at the entrance to the forest where people were killed…” “ He took a machete and struck me on the throat…” Man, 26, Western Ivory Coast. (April 2011) I’m not...
“They hit me on the back of my head with a machete, and cut my arm…” “Many people were dead and their bodies burned…” “They laid me down on it, doused me with gasoline and set me on fire…” “They hit me on the back of my head with a machete, and cut my arm…” Boy, 17, village in western Ivory Coast...
Displaced people in border areas need better assistance The situation in Ivory Coast remains volatile in the west, following the post-election conflict that wracked the country for several months, intensifying existing inter-communal tensions and land rivalries. Weeks after the violence began to...
“They killed my mother and father and burned their bodies right in front of my wife…” “People were burned alive in their houses…” “Everything I had was burned, what should I do over there?” “Armed men came and started shooting at all of us…” “They killed my mother and father and burned their bodies...
Funds and affordable drugs needed to turn target into treatment On the heels of new evidence that shows HIV treatment is also HIV prevention, governments meeting at a UN Summit on AIDS have taken a critical step by committing to reach 15 million people with HIV treatment by 2015 – but they must...
