Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started its response for the wounded and displaced victims of violence in Juba, South Sudan, following intense fighting from the evening of 15 December to the morning of 18 December in the capital. “We are extremely concerned for people who are caught in the conflict,” says Michael White, … Read more
On December 5, 2013, several hundred people were killed during armed clashes that shook the city of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic (CAR). Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) immediately began treating patients wounded in the fighting and has since been working to provide care to the large numbers of people who were … Read more
Brussels, 12 Dec 2013 – As UN humanitarian organisations agree to further mobilise resources in response to the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic (CAR), MSF has released an open letter addressed to Valérie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, expressing that this decision has to be urgently translated in reality. It urges … Read more
December 13, 2013: A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile emergency team is providing round-the-clock medical care at Bangui airport, addressing the medical needs of some 40,000 displaced people who’ve been sheltering there following an outbreak of violence that has convulsed the Central African Republic capital since December 5. “It’s a very difficult situation,” said … Read more
New York/Paris, December 9, 2013—After deadly attacks and threats inside hospitals in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on all parties to the conflict to allow the wounded and sick to safely obtain medical care, and for an end to violence … Read more
DECEMBER 7, 2013—Following violence in Bangui on December 5, hundreds of people are wounded, and thousands have fled, regrouping in several sites around the city. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding activities to continue to treat the wounded and provide health services to about 14,000 people in two of the main sites for … Read more
MSF vaccinates more than 26,000 children against measles and provides water and basic supplies to displaced persons Working in a highly volatile security context, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has vaccinated 26,125 children against measles in South Irumu in November. Violent fighting between government forces (FARDC) and the militia of the Front for Patriotic … Read more
MSF Teams Treating Scores of Wounded in City Hospitals BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, DECEMBER 5, 2013—Violent armed clashes in the Central African Republic (CAR) capital of Bangui early this morning caused dozens of casualties, including numerous deaths. Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are working in city hospitals … Read more
“Yes, I think many injured will be coming now…. perhaps we’d better call the surgeon.” “Good idea,” I say after some time. It sounds stupid. I cannot think of a better reply. These were the words spoken by my assistant Ayyub* at 6:15 am on a crisp July morning in northern Syria, as we peered … Read more
25 October 2013 – More than 130,000 people have fled the district of Al Safira, in Aleppo province, which has been under violent attack since 8th October. There is currently insufficient humanitarian aid to meet the massive, and growing, needs of these displaced people, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said … Read more