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Ethiopia: MSF supports local healthcare facilities in Tigray
Videos and Photos - 5 Feb 2021
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Ethiopia: “If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”
Albert Viñas has been involved in almost 50 emergency responses with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) over 20 years. He has just returned from his sixth mission in Ethiopia, where his role was to prepare the way for medical teams to access areas of eastern and central Tigray and assist people affected by the current crisis. Since violence broke out in this northern Ethiopian region in early November, some 60,000 people have taken refuge in Sudan and hundreds of thousands have been displaced within Tigray. He describes what he found. Crisis Update - 29 Jan 2021
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Ethiopia: MSF provides medical assistance to some of the most affected people in need in Tigray
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia after fighting broke out in early November 2020, according to OCHA. Article - 12 Jan 2021
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Sudan: “Services for the refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster”
Hano Yagoub, MSF’s acting emergency coordinator in Gedaref, Sudan, describes the situation in Um Rakuba camp, where 15,000 people are sheltering after fleeing violence in Ethiopia Stories from the Frontline - 23 Dec 2020
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Ethiopia: “They saw soldiers and civilians coming in, wounded or dead”
Psychological support for MSF staff on the border with Tigray, Ethiopia Project Update - 19 Dec 2020
Refugees, Migration and displacement
MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing the violence in Ethiopia
On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially catastrophic humanitarian consequences. Crisis Update - 28 Nov 2020
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MSF: Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine licensing deals public
Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic. Press Release - 11 Nov 2020
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MSF challenges COVID-19 myths with new quiz challenge app
A new app that encourages people to behave safely if someone in their family or community catches COVID-19 has been launched by international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in association with software developer Pixel Impact. Article - 10 Nov 2020
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Healthcare on donkeys, Darfur, Sudan
Nasteh Shukri Mahamud, nurse and medical team leader in Rokero, Central Darfur Project Update - 13 Oct 2020
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