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Ethiopia Tigray crisis: People left with few healthcare options in Tigray as facilities looted, destroyed

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ADDIS ABABA – Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Of 106 health facilities visited by MSF teams between mid-December 2020 and early March 2021, nearly 70% had been looted, and more than 30% had … Read more

Yemen: Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen

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Opinion by Muriel Boursier, MSF head of mission in Yemen Hamdi is not yet two years old, but this is already his second time as a patient at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Abs hospital, in northern Yemen. The first time he was five months old. Now, just over a year later, he … Read more

Central African Republic: A journey of healing amid post-electoral violence

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Since last December, the security and humanitarian situation has deteriorated rapidly in Central African Republic (CAR), as a coalition of armed groups, called Coalition des Patriotes pour le Changement (CPC), and the government, supported by UN military personnel and foreign troops, are clashing in the wake of presidential and general elections. After numerous offensives across the country, fighting … Read more

Myanmar: MSF concerned for welfare of healthcare workers and people in Myanmar

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is gravely concerned about the recent unlawful arrests and detainment of healthcare workers, and people from the wider general public, following the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021. The arrests, and the widespread restrictions following the recently imposed ‘state of emergency’, have the potential to severely interrupt the … Read more

Yemen: “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”

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The United States government has moved to designate Ansar Allah, the Yemeni group that controls Sana’a, the largest city in Yemen, and much of the country, as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. This means that sanctions will be applied to stop people and companies working with them or the institutions they control. Marc Schakal, MSF’s programme manager for Yemen, … Read more

Ethiopia: Providing assistance to people in Ethiopia and Sudan in wake of Tigray violence

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Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia after fighting broke out in early November 2020, according to OCHA [1]. Some 50,000 people have crossed into Sudan as refugees, while many others are displaced within the region, staying in towns, remote areas or trapped between localised … Read more

Palestine: “For one year no one came here” to provide medical care in the West Bank

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Approximately 300,000 Palestinians that live in small dispersed communities in the West Bank, Palestine, face barriers to accessing healthcare. This is because more than half of the West Bank is under an ‘Area C’ designation, meaning it is under direct Israeli civil and military control. More than one-third of people living under Area C-designated zones depend … Read more

Central African Republic: MSF provides care in post-election attacks in Bangassou

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On Sunday 3 January, the coalition of non-state armed groups attacked and took control of Bangassou, a town in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams transported and urgently treated 12 wounded at the Bangassou Regional … Read more

Yemen: Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

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BRUSSELS – Renewed conflict on the frontlines to the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast has become among the most intense in the country, and the number of civilians needing major war-trauma surgery is rising. Since October, the MSF trauma hospital in the nearby town of Mocha has treated 122 war-wounded patients – … Read more

Sudan: MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing violence in Ethiopia

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On 4 November, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilising other parts of the country and the region, … Read more