Between humanitarian crises and medical emergencies: all the latest news
Tanzania
One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees
More than one year after the first influx of refugees began, some 1,000 people escaping political unrest in Burundi continue to flee across the border each week to Tanzania joining thousands of others living in overcrowded and ever-expanding refugee camps.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
MSF mobilizes workers for Yellow Fever vaccination campaign in DR Congo
Amidst an ongoing yellow fever epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF is mobilizing considerable resources to support the Congolese authorities in a massive vaccination campaign against the disease. The plan is to vaccinate 10.5 million people over the next ten days.
Yemen
Death toll rises to 19 in airstrike on MSF-supported Abs hospital in Hajjah
Four MSF-supported facilities have come under attack in the last year. Eleven people dead and at least 19 injured after airstrike hits Abs hospital in Hajjah.
Syria
Medical staff are suffering in east Aleppo
An interview with a Syrian doctor managing a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-supported hospital in east Aleppo.
Jordan, Syria
The "berm" : The Ghost Project between Syria and Jordan
Syria. Eleven million displaced. Four hundred thousand deaths. These are approximations. At this juncture, deaths and displaced persons are estimated in zeros, the individual simply disappears.
Nigeria
"We are too scared to go back"
Dayo, 31, was referred to Mora Hospital in Cameroon in late July by MSF teams in Banki, Nigeria. She accompanied her sick four-year-old son, Barine. The child urgently needed to be admitted to hospital as he was suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
Balkans, Serbia
Sharp Increase in Violence Against Migrants and Refugees
Nigeria
MSF warns of large-scale humanitarian disaster
Syria
Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive in Aleppo
Fighting has intensified over the past three weeks and the long-suffering people of Aleppo city are bearing the brunt of the devastation.
Ukraine
“We are lost here and very scared”
It has been more than two years since conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine, yet thousands of forgotten victims remain left behind in areas close to the now unmoving line of contact.