Africa

 
A women starring back at her reflection in a handheld mirror
Africa

Niger

The first few months of the year are usually the least busy for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in Niger. But everything changed in March 2020 with the spread of COVID-19.
 
An MSF staff member walks through Mbawa internally displaced people's camp, where most of the displaced were uprooted by the so-called ‘farmer-herdsmen’ conflict. Benue state, Nigeria, June 2020.
Africa

Nigeria

Escalating violence in Nigeria, especially in the northern states of Zamfara and Borno, led to a deterioration in the humanitarian situation, with thousands more people displaced and cut off from healthcare.
 
Mothers listen to Alpha Atafazali Bahunga telling them that they require three rounds of vaccination during a session in a church-cum-school in the village of Kalungu II in Masisi territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 14, 2014.
Africa

Republic of Congo

MSF first worked in Congo in 1997 and closed its projects in 2013.
 
KIGALI, RWANDA, AFRICA, 30.04.95. Tutsi survivors of the genocide at the one year anniversary of the genocide. Beneath umbrellas.
Africa

Rwanda

MSF closed its projects in Rwanda in 2007.
 
Midwife Sia Kallon listens to the heartbeat of 30-year old Baidu Jinnah Sheriff’s unborn baby, Sierra Leone
Africa

Sierra Leone

Disease outbreaks – including of Ebola and, more recently, COVID-19 – and years of civil war have devastated the healthcare system in Sierra Leone, leaving it severely understaffed.
 
SOMALIA
Africa

Somalia

Our commitment to accessing and assisting people in need remains steadfast.