Refugee crisis

Bangladesh: MSF calls for an urgent and comprehensive response to the scabies outbreak in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps

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Cox’s Bazar, 12 July, Wednesday – An outbreak of scabies, the skin disease, is affecting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, demanding an urgent response, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). To bring the outbreak under control, the response needs to be fast … Read more

South Sudan: A crisis within a crisis as people fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

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Juba, 22 June 2023 – Thousands of people who escaped the conflict in Sudan by crossing into South Sudan are now struggling for survival at transit centres in Upper Nile and Northern Bahr El Ghazal states, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Most are South Sudanese nationals who were living in … Read more

CAR: “Everyone arrives exhausted from Sudan, and many children are ill”

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In recent weeks, thousands of people fleeing the conflict in Sudan have sought refuge in northern Central African Republic (CAR). Issa Moussa, deputy head of mission for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is coordinating MSF’s emergency response in Birao. Moussa explains how MSF is adapting to provide medical support to Sudanese refugees in CAR. What … Read more

“Returning to Haiti means death”

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Haitian migrants risking their lives to flee conflict face still more dangers on the journey through Latin America Haitians seeking asylum in the United States continue to be at risk of being expelled and sent back to a country in crisis, where the capital, Port-au-Prince, has become a battleground between armed groups, causing thousands of … Read more

Renewal of Syria Cross-border resolution – MSF Flashquote

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The decision of the United Nations Security Council to renew the cross-border aid mechanism from Turkey to Syria is absolutely vital and essential for people in northwest Syria. However, doing so for six months only is insufficient and concerning. A six-month extension does not provide sufficient visibility on the kind of support that people in … Read more

Left to drown in the Southern European Border: One year of Geo Barents at sea

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One year of operations in the Central Mediterranean have passed by, this time with the Geo Barents – Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) vessel – rescuing 3,138 people and conducting 6,536 medical consultations before disembarking in a place of safety in Europe. Following last week’s tragic rescue, the sad reality at the Southern European border has … Read more

European leaders: Stop punishing asylum seekers on the Greek islands

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Open letter by Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières Dear European leaders I have just come back from the Greek islands, and I was shocked by what I saw and by the accounts I heard from my colleagues on the ground. They told me about a 12-year-old boy who came to our clinic … Read more

Mediterranean migration: European leaders must urgently allow disembarkation of 104 survivors

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SOS MEDITERRANEE and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) call on a broad coalition of European States to urgently facilitate the assignment of a port to the Ocean Viking and to finally put in place a predictable and coordinated disembarkation mechanism, as discussed in Luxembourg earlier this month. The Ocean Viking, a rescue ship chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE … Read more

Mediterranean crisis: Sinister attacks by Italian authorities on life-saving search and rescue in the Mediterranean continue

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by Italian judicial authorities to request the seizure of the Aquarius for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste. It is a disproportionate and unfounded measure, purely aimed at further criminalizing lifesaving medical-humanitarian action at sea. “After two years of defamatory and unfounded allegations … Read more