Sudan: Measles Cases Surge in Darfur Despite Months of Warnings and Calls for Vaccination

Zalingei, December 19, 2025 – Measles cases are rising rapidly across Central, South and West Darfur, in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign. More than 1,300 cases have been recorded since September 2025 in health facilities supported by MSF despite MSF repeatedly advocating for vaccination campaigns and the resumption of routine immunisation … Read more

Sudan: One month after RSF takeover of El Fasher

One month after RSF takeover of El Fasher, displaced people survive in precarious conditions while others remain blocked or unaccounted for MSF patients in Tawila describe mass killings, torture, and kidnappings for ransom in El Fasher and along escape routes. Their stories confirm fears for those still missing. MSF continues to expand its capacities in … Read more

Sudan: Ongoing mass atrocities against civilians in and around El Fasher, North Darfur

Paris, 3 July 2025 – Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan’s North Darfur region, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned in a report today, urging the warring parties to halt indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence and facilitate an immediate large-scale humanitarian response. MSF is extremely concerned about the threats of a full-blown assault on the hundreds of thousands … Read more

Sudanese refugees in Chad: safe from bombs, but struggling to survive

In Tine and Oure Cassoni camps in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is increasing its support for recently arrived Sudanese refugees. In these overcrowded camps, people face harsh conditions and limited access to food, shelter, water, and healthcare. The current humanitarian response is grossly insufficient, and greater support from … Read more

Sudan: MSF report reveals stark lack of protection and assistance in South Darfur

Violence, insecurity and hunger are devastating people’s lives in South Darfur, Sudan, according to a new MSF report released today. The report, Voices from South Darfur, illustrates in vivid testimony how the impact of pervasive violence, a healthcare system in ruins and an inadequate international response have all combined to push people’s coping strategies to … Read more

Sudan: Addressing sexual violence in Darfur

Brussels/Amsterdam– Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal. Yet all the survivors who speak … Read more

Sudan: Healthcare needs high in Khartoum, scale-up urgently needed

Khartoum, Sudan– Exactly two years after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first worked in south Khartoum’s Bashair Teaching Hospital, the team is again scaling up activities to help meet immense medical needs in partnership with the Ministry of Health. MSF suspended activities at the hospital in January 2025 after repeated violent incidents. MSF’s initial focus will … Read more

MSF briefs UN Security Council on Sudan: A catastrophic “war on people”

NEW YORK, March 13, 2025—Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid. Madam President, excellencies, colleagues, Two years of unrelenting … Read more

Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals across as ‘war on people’ continues

Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in three different parts of Sudan – Khartoum, North Darfur and South Darfur states – treated mass influxes of war wounded patients as the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued, with little respect shown for civilian life. On 4 February in … Read more

Sudan: MSF condemns a despicable attack on its ambulance in El Fasher, killing one passenger

On January 10, an MSF ambulance was shot at in El Fasher, North Darfur, by an unknown gunman while referring a female patient in labor requiring emergency surgical procedure from MSF field hospital in Zamzam camp to Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, the only public hospital with surgical capacity still standing in the area despite … Read more