Name : Designation : Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF medical referent in Gaza The last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza. And that’s compared to the wars of 2008, 2012 and 2014. For me, a doctor from Gaza, living and working here all … Read more
Amsterdam/ Sanaa – The staff house of the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ad Dhale governorate, southern Yemen, was targeted with explosives on Monday evening, 1 October 2018. Fortunately, nobody was harmed. This was the second attack against the MSF house in less than a week. MSF strongly condemns the … Read more
Tripoli/Amsterdam – Over the past 72 hours following clashes in Tripoli, the lives of Libyans and an already vulnerable group of refugees and migrants have been put in grave danger, according to the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF reiterates that Libya is not a safe country, and that European governments must acknowledge … Read more
Over 900,000 people have been displaced along the border between Gedeo and West Guji zones, respectively in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, due to a recent surge of inter-communal violence. After an initial assessment of the crisis, MSF has launched an emergency response to address the most … Read more
Abuja/Paris – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started emergency nutritional and paediatric activities in Bama, Borno state, in response to a critical humanitarian situation among newly arrived internally displaced people (IDPs). Lack of adequate assistance, including access to shelter and healthcare, is having severe consequences for young children arriving in the town. MSF calls … Read more
Following the recent offensive by forces loyal to President Hadi and supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led international coalition on Hodeidah, Doctors Without Borders/Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a 20-bed surgical field hospital in Mocha, 180 kilometres south of Hodeidah, to respond to increased medical needs. More than 70 MSF staff are working in the … Read more
One year since the battle between the Islamic State (IS) group and the Iraqi forces officially ended in Mosul, the health system is still in ruins and struggling to cope as thousands of people continue to return to the city, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. During the conflict, nine out of 13 … Read more
A surge in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor governorates, in northeast Syria, is bringing in an increasing number of patients to the MSF-supported hospital in Hassakeh. In the 10 days between June 4 and 14, the hospital received 17 survivors of airstrikes, including 6 children and 3 women. All … Read more
Since 14 May 2018, a new cycle of inter-community violence has taken hold in Bambari, a city in the Central African Republic that, in 2017, remained relatively stable while the rest of the country spiralled into increasingly fractured conflict. MSF’s surgery team, which supports the local hospital, cared for 17 wounded, two of whom unfortunately … Read more
MSF statement on violence on Gaza strip “What happened today is unacceptable and inhuman. The death toll provided this evening by Gaza health authorities in Palestine — 55 dead and 2271 wounded, including 1359 wounded with live ammunition—is staggering.It is unbearable to witness such a massive number of unarmed people being shot in such a … Read more