More than 10,600 Syrian families who have fled their country have taken refuge in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city, located approximately 30 kilometers[about 19 miles] from the Syrian border. Its population includes 500,000 Lebanese citizens, Palestinian refugees living in the Baddawi and Nahr el-Bared camps, and, now, more than 42,000 Syrians who have sought refuge in … Read more
NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Following an attack on an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which killed an ICRC staff member, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly condemned violence against humanitarian workers and facilities. “MSF calls on all parties to … Read more
NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living under increasingly precarious conditions and Jordanian authorities are unable to provide them with adequate water and health care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Increased international aid is urgently needed so that Jordan can … Read more
YANGON, MYANMAR/NEW YORK, MAY 28, 2013—Nearly a year after interethnic clashes broke out in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, government-imposed restrictions on Muslim communities are preventing tens of thousands of people from accessing health care and other basic services, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders said today. An estimated 140,000 displaced … Read more
NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living under increasingly precarious conditions and Jordanian authorities are unable to provide them with adequate water and health care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Increased international aid is urgently needed so that Jordan can … Read more
Name : Designation : Salwah Mekrsh was shot by a sniper in Aleppo. In this photo, taken in April 2013, she is about to start a mental health consultation with MSF staff in Kilis. © Turkey 2013 © Anna Surinyach Eighteen-year-old Salwah Mekrsh is unable to walk. Her mother and her sister push Salwah’s wheelchair … Read more
GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO/PARIS, MAY 22, 2013—The resumption of heavy fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) yesterday is endangering thousands of civilians, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The fighting broke out in areas west of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, between the … Read more
May 17, 2013 Serge St-Louis just returned from nine months as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). He was there in late 2012, when Seleka, a new coalition of Central African rebel groups, took control of several towns before finally entering Bangui, the capital, in late … Read more
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, May 16, 2013—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly condemned the deliberate damage and looting of its hospital in Pibor town, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, which has left tens of thousands of people without access to essential medical care. The hospital’s infrastructure was systematically damaged May … Read more
Overcrowding and poor living conditions in Iraq’s Domeez camp have led to a recent deterioration in the health of Syrian refugees. Stéphane Reynier, emergency coordinator for the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), describes the current situation in the camp: The health system in Syria has collapsed, and the war has … Read more