The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called today on the warring forces in Ivory Coast to take all necessary measures to ensure that people can safely reach medical facilities and that MSF medical teams can travel freely in the city of Abidjan and other...
Issoufou SALHA, MSF Head of Mission in Abidjan, Ivory Coast explains the difficulty to treat patients in Abidjan and in the West of Ivory Coast. How do MSF teams manage to work in Abidjan? We have been stuck in the offices and at the hospital for the last three days. We can hear gun shots, there...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) evacuated 71 patients by boat on Sunday 3 April from the Libyan city of Misrata, where ongoing violence has overwhelmed medical facilities with the injured. “We managed to dock at Misrata on Sunday afternoon, despite...
The situation remains extremely tense and violent in and around several cities in western Ivory Coast, despite the ending of major fighting on March 31 between armed forces in the area. Many wounded people suffering from gunshot or machete wounds have arrived in hospitals in the western towns of...
New outbreaks of fighting in Ivory Coast are severely restricting already-limited civilian access to medical care, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. An advancing front line has forced thousands of residents to flee in the western region...
As the conflict continues in Libya, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pursuing a variety of measures to assist people affected by the violence in the western part of country, regardless of their affiliation or origin. So far, the organisation has been denied...
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Following two consecutive grenade attacks on Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) compound in Medina, Mogadishu, MSF has taken the decision to suspend its medical operations in the area for an indefinite period of time. After nearly two months of operations in Medina, the medical humanitarian...
Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease. “The measles epidemic is spiralling out of control,” says Gaël...
