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Haiti

People’s healthcare in danger amidst worsening anger and despair

The streets of Haiti have spiralled even deeper into violence in recent weeks, jeopardising the ability of both MSF teams and the Haitian healthcare system to provide emergency medical care.

Yemen

MSF scales up activities as cholera spreads in several governorates

Humanitarian assistance, and particularly water and sanitation activities, need to be increased to prevent cholera from spreading across the country.
Réfugiés migrants Libye MSF

Libya

Alarming contitions in a Tripoli detention center

MSF calls on Libyan authorities and the international community to urgently address the inhumane and dangerous conditions in Libyan detention centres.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Medical activities suspended after Ebola treatment centre attack

An MSF Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, North Kivu, was attacked on 27 February, just days after another treatment centre in nearby Katwa was partly burnt down.

Nigeria

“All I have in this world are the clothes on my back”

For the almost two million people forced to leave their homes in northeastern Nigeria over the past nine years, the emergency in the region is far from over, and people continue to be displaced by the violence on a daily basis.
Mer Méditerranée. Aquarius. Opérations de recherche et de sauvetage.

Mediterranean Sea

Aquarius Forced to terminate Operations as Europe condemns people to drown

As refugees, migrants and asylum seekers continue to die in the Mediterranean Sea, MSF and its partner SOS Méditerranée have been forced to terminate operations by the search and rescue vessel Aquarius.
Un patient, âgé de 24 ans, a reçu une balle dans la jambe le 30 mars lors de la Marche du retour. Gaza, octobre 2018. © Yuna Cho/MSF

Palestine

Gaza injuries pose risk of leaving lives permanently shattered

The huge numbers of patients with complex and serious gunshot wounds are overwhelming the healthcare system in Gaza, leaving thousands in danger of infection and disability.
Die Aquarius im Hafen von Valencia. Juni 2018. © Roland Schilring

Mediterranean Sea

Sinister attacks by Italian authorities on lifesaving search and rescue

MSF strongly condemns the decision by Italian judicial authorities to request the seizure of the Aquarius for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste.
MSF a commencé ses activités à Sinuni, la ville la plus densément peuplée du district de Sinjar, au nord de l'Irak, après avoir constaté que très peu de services existaient en dehors des soins de santé primaires. Irak. Septembre 2018. © MSF

Iraq

Hospital rehabilitation in Sinjar disctrict

MSF has launched activities in Sinuni General Hospital, in Sinjar district, Iraq, in collaboration with the Iraqi Directorate of Health, to help cover the urgent need for secondary healthcare services for people returning to the region.

Yemen

MSF faces an influx of war wounded

As conflict intensifies on several frontlines across Yemen, an influx of people with war-related injuries are treated at facilities run by international medical organisation MSF in Hodeidah, Hajjah, Aden, Saada and Taiz governorates.

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