The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently responding to the consequences of fighting in the Abyei region, in Sudan. Following violent clashes, the MSF hospital in Agok, 40 kilometres south of Abyei, received 42 wounded during the night between...
MSF criticises inconsistent European policies claiming to protect civilians by engaging in a war while closing its borders to them An open letter by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) addressed to the leaders of the states of the European Union involved in the war in Libya is being published today in...
(This letter was sent to Heads of State or Governments of Member States of the European Union, to Presidents of European Institutions, and to the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Organisation for Migration. It was...
International medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today accepted a 2011 Green Star Award for leadership in environmental emergencies, at a ceremony in Bern, Switzerland. MSF’s most recent environmental emergency response began in northern Nigeria in March 2010, and is still...
In the kingdom of Bahrain, to be wounded by security forces has become a reason for arrest and providing healthcare has become grounds for a jail sentence. During the current civil unrest, Bahraini health facilities have consistently been used as a tool in the military crackdown, backed by the Gulf...
Since 30 April, an MSF team is working in the hospital of Zintan, a city located in western Libya, south west of the capital of Tripoli, in the Nafusah Mountain region. For weeks now, Zintan and the surrounding area have been the battleground between pro-Gaddafi forces and the insurgency, fighting...
I've finished the briefing in MSF France office and will depart for Abuja, Nigeria this morning. I'll stay in Abuja tonight, then fly to Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
The general situation in Libya remains extremely tense and uncertain. In the country’s third city Misrata, the situation is very volatile: after the rebels claimed to have captured the city’s airport on Wednesday 11 May, the conditions seemed to slightly improve in some areas but over the weekend,...
On 14-15 April 2011 more than one hundred tuberculosis experts came together in Tashkent to discuss their experiences with and the challenges around scaling up tuberculosis (TB) care in the Central Asia region. In the end, everyone agreed: urgent action is needed. The symposium "Uniting to Scale up...
MSF reminds the need to respect humanitarian medical activities Amidst heavy clashes on 11 May in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance being used to transport patients to surgical facilities throughout the day was struck by a stray bullet. Clashes between pro-...
