Ukraine: Bombed-out ghost towns and overcrowded shelters leave displaced people struggling

Shelters in eastern Ukraine are overflowing with people forced to flee their homes, many being relocated to the Dnipropetrovsk region. MSF operates in three locations in this region, including Pavlohrad and the railway station. In September 2025, Pavlohrad’s largest transit centre accommodated up to 500 people per day, with tents set up alongside permanent buildings. … Read more

Gaza: MSF is devastated by the death of colleague Abed El Hameed

Jerusalem, 5 October 2025 – It is with profound sorrow and outrage that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms the death of our colleague Abed El Hameed Qaradaya. Despite the care provided by the medical teams, he succumbed to his critical shrapnel injuries on Sunday, 5 October, following the attack on Thursday, 2 October, in which … Read more

The Illusion of Choice: Rohingya Voices Echo from the Camps ahead of UN Conference

29 September, Tuesday, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Eight years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled a campaign of extreme targeted violence in Myanmar, a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shows a population caught in a protracted crisis, facing constant threats of violence, diminishing aid, and a profound lack of control over … Read more

MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City

The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its vital medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation, including continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than one kilometre from our healthcare facilities. The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of … Read more

DRC: Patients describe July massacres of civilians in Binza, North Kivu

Binza, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been plagued by a wave extreme violence since July 2025. Multiple patients seen by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have testified to massacres – including of women and children. All testify to armed men as perpetrators, and some cite the M23 armed group. Although large-scale massacres appear to have … Read more

MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza

17 September 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died on 16 September in Gaza from shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier. Hussein’s sister-in-law and nephew were also injured in the same incident. This is not … Read more

Mozambique: MSF ends emergency response in Chiure after mass displacement

Monday 15 September 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams have concluded an emergency response in Chiure—a town in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province—as most of the 50,000 people seeking refuge in the town after fleeing violence in the region in late July have returned home. However, recurring violent incidents continue to displace people … Read more

Pakistan: A clinic’s vital role in the conflict-torn Tirah valley

In a Pakistan valley marked by conflict, one clinic offers critical support to thousands returning to damaged homes After more than a decade of being displaced from their homes by conflict, people have been returning to Tirah Valley, a mountainous area in the northwest of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border. Families have … Read more

Sudan: Deadly attacks across Darfur leave nearly 100 wounded people in MSF-supported facilities

Port Sudan, 11 September 2025 – Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Médecins Sans Frontières-supported health facilities across North, Central, and South Darfur in Sudan, on 10 September. Four people across the facilities were declared … Read more

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The long wait for medical care

Sometimes I sell my extra rations to get some money and buy medicines from outside [the camps]. MSF’s services are good but waiting long hours makes me restless; it takes the whole day. Nur Begum Jamtoli clinic in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar It is monsoon season in Bangladesh and humidity is high. … Read more