COVID-19 Coronavirus
Year in Review 2020
The year 2020 was extremely challenging for people all over the world, as they experienced extraordinary levels of disease, loss, fear and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. In many countries where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works – and some in which we normally don’t – the pandemic exacerbated existing healthcare issues caused by conflict, displacement and poverty. Update - 27 May 2021
Access to Healthcare
Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect
Many of Tigray’s six million people live in mountainous and rural areas where they are all but invisible to the outside world. While teams of aid workers have been deployed to the main cities of this northern Ethiopian region over recent months, aid is failing to reach more remote communities, where the impact of the conflict has often been severe. Many people have been unable to access healthcare and other basic services for the past six months and are still living in fear. Article - 4 May 2021
War and conflict
Ethiopia: “I turned around and started running and that is when I was shot”
Survivors describe being shot by soldiers in Adwa, Tigray Stories from the Frontline - 20 Apr 2021
Access to medicines
Asylum seekers are stuck in appalling conditions in Ethiopia’s Gambella region
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 Crisis Update - 8 Apr 2021
Access to Healthcare
Ethiopia: Tigray’s cities fill with displaced people fleeing insecurity and in need of aid
In recent weeks, tens of thousands of displaced people have arrived in cities in the conflict-hit region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia. They join others who arrived earlier and are staying in schools and empty buildings, in poor conditions and without basic services. Many have already been displaced multiple times since November. Crisis Update - 26 Mar 2021
Access to Healthcare
“It’s a powder keg waiting to explode”
Before March, the town of Shire in Ethiopia’s North-West region of Tigray already hosted a large number of people who have been displaced by the conflict. Many live with the host community, while about 17,000 lived in three informal IDP sites. In the past few weeks, there has been a massive influx of new arrivals in Shire, where the situation was already dire. MSF emergency coordinator Ozan Agbas describes the current situation. Project Update - 26 Mar 2021
Refugees, Migration and displacement
MSF driver assaulted, staff witness men dragged off buses and killed in Tigray
MSF driver assaulted, staff witness men dragged off buses and killed in Tigray Crisis Update - 24 Mar 2021
Access to Healthcare
Health facilities targeted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
MSF is deeply concerned by the scale of deliberate attacks on health facilities that our teams routinely witness across Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Health centers appear to have been deliberately vandalized to render them non-functional. Crisis Update - 15 Mar 2021
Access to Healthcare
Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. Inside Tigray, most of the displaced people stay with the host community, while tens of thousands live in informal sites or are still hiding in the bush or the mountains. MSF is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of people who have been deprived of medical care for months and have received little humanitarian assistance Crisis Update - 5 Mar 2021
Access to Healthcare