Since February 1, in Carnot, southwestern Central African Republic (CAR), nearly 1,000 people, mostly Muslim, have been trapped, surrounded and threatened by the self-defense militias known as anti-Balakas. MSF has been working in Carnot since 2010 and has been a direct witness to the violence and...
While the world’s media focuses on stories of violence and drone attacks in north-west Pakistan, local families struggle through another bitter winter in the mountains, with little or no access to healthcare. There was the baby who was so cold, his lower body was turning blue. To reach the local...
José Mas Campos, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Bangui, Central African Republic. He wrote this account of his experiences there in December last year. The situation today has not improved. The shuddering thunder of anti-aircraft guns and submachine guns went on non-stop in the distance until it died...
Three months after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting 16 million people, emergency teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report that although the relief effort is well underway, the recovery will take a lot longer. “The waste which filled the streets directly after the typhoon is now...
“Between the constant tension and the many serious wounds, this was my most difficult mission” Jessie GAFFRIC is coordinator of MSF’s project at the Bangui Community Hospital, where the organization performs emergency surgery for victims of the confrontations, abuses and violence rocking the city...
Muslim communities threatened in many towns, forced to leave the country Over the past weeks the extreme violence in the Central African Republic has reached intolerable and unprecedented levels, said the international medical-humanitarian organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The whole...
Escalating violence, revenge killings, arson and looting in the Central African Republic have displaced more than 900, 000 civilians, according to UNOCHA. The morning of Thursday 30th January saw 8 000 displaced Muslim people in Bossangoa preparing to load their families and possessions on a fleet...
Over the past seven weeks, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have run mobile clinics by boat to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to five islands south of Guiuan that were affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The team includes a doctor, two nurses, a psychologist, a translator and two Filipino...
Some 700 refugees, mostly women and children, are crossing from South Sudan into northern Uganda each day to escape violence and insecurity. Since the conflict started in mid-December, more than 45,000 South Sudanese have arrived. Many come from the city of Bor, in Jonglei state, which has seen...
