Médecins Sans Frontières is concerned about the situation of thousands of asylum seekers from South Sudan who have been stuck for months in appalling conditions in a reception center in Ethiopia’s Gambella region without meaningful access to essential services, especially food aid. MSF is worried that conditions will deteriorate even further in the upcoming rainy season
In northern Mozambique, the traumas that internally displaced people (IDPs) have lived through are taking their toll - MSF mental health workers are helping by giving them an outlet to express their pain.
Displaced people in Bouar are facing an unprecedented crisis and an effective and coordinated humanitarian response is urgently needed
The United States government has moved to designate Ansar Allah, the Yemeni group that controls Sana’a and much of the country, as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, meaning that sanctions will be applied to stop people and companies working with them or the institutions they control.
Marc Schakal, MSF’s Program Manager for Yemen, explains what the risks are for aid to Yemen – and the Yemeni people – if there is not a broad exemption allowing humanitarian work to continue under these sanctions.
The security and humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly in Central African Republic, according to reports by MSF teams, as clashes escalate between coalition armed groups and government forces supported by foreign troops, in violence linked to the electoral process.
Jean-Nicolas Dangelser was working with MSF in South Sudan during the last wave of violence in the Jonglei and Greater Pibor administrative areas earlier this year. He describes his role as part of a small team who flew into Pieri to support during the emergency response in August - particularly with evacuation of critical patients to the MSF hospital in Bentiu.
Two days later the death toll is still growing as more bodies are found under the rubble.
After over a decade of armed conflict, outbreaks of severe malnutrition, malaria, measles and cholera, approximately 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Borno state now face the spectre of COVID-19.
People have been left without healthcare and tens of thousands have been displaced across Ethiopia and Sudan, following fighting that broke out in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in November 2020.
MSF teams are working on both sides of the border, providing assistance to people in refugees camps in Sudan, and to the displaced and host communities within Tigray in Ethiopia.
