Watch the extraordinary story of Qusay Hussein. He landed in Austin, Texas, with no idea where he was going. Blinded by a suicide bombing in Iraq, he was eager to try to make a new life in the United States. “When people think ‘refugee,’ I’m one of them,” he says. “[But] people don’t identify me, … Read more
Refugees and migrants in Tripoli’s Qasr Bin Gashir detention centre were shot at and injured, according to evidence reviewed by medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). With MSF and other humanitarian agencies warning of the dangers for the some 3,000 migrants and refugees locked up in detention centres in Tripoli and the … Read more
Bangui / Barcelona: Medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the killing on last Thursday of their colleague Gaulbert Mokafe, an assistant nurse at the Batangafo hospital, at the hands of an armed group. Gaulbert Mokafe MSF once again calls on all armed groups involved in the conflict in the Central African … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has put on hold the admission of all patients to Al Sadaqah hospital in Aden following the kidnapping and killing of a patient. On the morning of 2 April 2019, a group of armed men threatened guards and medical staff at MSF’s emergency trauma hospital in Aden before entering … Read more
One year ago people in Gaza began holding demonstrations and being shot by the Israeli forces every week near the fence between the two territories. The medical, human and financial toll in the blockaded enclave has become unbearable as thousands of people have been left to cope with devastating wounds. Despite the efforts of the … Read more
Governments are meeting today in Geneva to pledge funds to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Ironically, many of these donor governments are also involved in the war, which is both driving massive humanitarian needs and obstructing the delivery of humanitarian assistance, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. In Yemen, people’s access to basic services … Read more
One year after inter-communal violence forced them to flee their homes, some ten thousand people are living in desperate conditions in Nizi, in Djugu territory, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A crowd has gathered in front of Innocent’s straw hut in Limani, an informal settlement where people forced from their homes by violence have … Read more
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is dismayed by several findings of the team appointed by the Saudi and Emirati-led Coalition (SELC) to investigate the bombing of an MSF Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) in Abs, Yemen, on 11 June 2018, and demands that the results of the investigation be reviewed … Read more
MSF teams in the Palestinian enclave are coping with the arduous task of replacing the centimetres of bones pulverised by Israeli bullets in the bodies of protesters. The limited resources available on site, however, make it impossible to provide a viable solution for many of them – this is why referrals to hospitals abroad are … Read more
n late 2018, Ella Baron, a cartoonist on assignment with the Guardian, visited our clinic in Shatila refugee camp, Lebanon. She collected the testimonies of patients – mostly Syrian women – and MSF staff and produced the following illustrations, based on their stories. With Ella’s illustrations, MSF psychologist Miriam Slikhanian shares her experiences of working … Read more