Binza, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been plagued by a wave extreme violence since July 2025. Multiple patients seen by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have testified to massacres – including of women and children. All testify to armed men as perpetrators, and some cite the M23 armed group. Although large-scale massacres appear to have … Read more
Researchers, activists, and community leaders converge in Colombo to confront systemic failures and demand accountability in global health. Colombo, September 19, 2025: Against the backdrop of emerging global health threats and widening inequities in access to care, the 2025 edition of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders Scientific Days Asia convened in Colombo, Sri Lanka … Read more
17 September 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died on 16 September in Gaza from shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier. Hussein’s sister-in-law and nephew were also injured in the same incident. This is not … Read more
Monday 15 September 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams have concluded an emergency response in Chiure—a town in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province—as most of the 50,000 people seeking refuge in the town after fleeing violence in the region in late July have returned home. However, recurring violent incidents continue to displace people … Read more
In a Pakistan valley marked by conflict, one clinic offers critical support to thousands returning to damaged homes After more than a decade of being displaced from their homes by conflict, people have been returning to Tirah Valley, a mountainous area in the northwest of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border. Families have … Read more
Port Sudan, 11 September 2025 – Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Médecins Sans Frontières-supported health facilities across North, Central, and South Darfur in Sudan, on 10 September. Four people across the facilities were declared … Read more
In Batangafo, Ouham-Fafa prefecture, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) collaborates with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) to carry out routine and catch-up vaccination campaigns. Despite major logistical and security challenges, the teams manage to reach the most isolated children living in remote and hard-to-reach areas, ensuring their protection against diseases that are easily preventable … Read more
September 3rd, Jerusalem – Palestinians are facing forced mass displacement across the West Bank by Israeli forces and settlers, significantly heightening the risk of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). More than at any point in its 36-year history of providing medical and psychological care in Palestine, MSF sees how … Read more
Geneva – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has chosen Dr Mohamed Javid Abdelmoneim as our new International President. He begins his three-year mandate, following his election by representatives at MSF’s highest governance body, the International General Assembly, held on 27 June in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr Javid is a Sudanese Iranian emergency medicine doctor, with extensive … Read more
As Yemen continues to endure one of the world’s longest-running humanitarian crises, the recent spike in acute watery diarrhoea cases in Ibb and Al-Hodeidah governorates has once again highlighted the fragility of the country’s healthcare system. There is an urgent need for sustained humanitarian support, so that people most affected by the outbreak can access … Read more