Natural Disasters
Malawi: “This time around, the destruction is more of houses and farm produce, not of people’s lives”
MSF logistician and community health worker Labana Steven is part of MSF’s emergency team working in Malawi’s Makhanga area to support thousands of people left affected by severe flooding with health and sanitation supplies. Makhanga area was one of the worst affected by heavy rainfall which started in Malawi in early March. The same weather system went on to become Cyclone Idai which struck Mozambique and Zimbabwe on 14-16 March, 2019, one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to hit southern Africa. Labana, who has worked for MSF for 20 years in Malawi, was also part of MSF’s response to severe flooding in the same area in 2008 and 2015. His historical understanding and deep engagement with local partners and communities in southern Malawi are vital to MSF’s ongoing response. Crisis Update - 29 Mar 2019
Access to medicines
As WHO issues critical new TB treatment recommendations, MSF calls on governments to urgently scale-up all oral treatment
MSF calls on countries with large numbers of people with DR-TB to urgently start implementing these new treatment guidelines Press Release - 22 Dec 2018
War and conflict
DRC: Numerous acts of sexual violence committed by armed men in Kasai
Between May 2017 and September 2018, MSF treated 2,600 victims of sexual violence Press Release - 2 Nov 2018
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
The tip of the iceberg”: Stream of survivors offers glimpse into scale of sexual violence in the Central African Republic
Doctors at MSF's clinics across the Central African Republic have treated 1,914 victims of sexual violence in the first six months of 2018 Crisis Update - 7 Sep 2018
Epidemics
New Ebola outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Tenth outbreak in the country follows the declaration of the end of the last outbreak just four weeks ago Crisis Update - 5 Sep 2018
International Activity Report 2016
International Activity Report - 23 May 2017
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Kenya: MSF welcomes Kenyan High Court ruling about plan to close Dadaab refugee camps
MSF urges the Government of Kenya to uphold the decision. Press Release - 9 Feb 2017
Epidemics
West Africa: MSF closes last projects for Ebola survivors
More than two and a half years after the Ebola outbreak officially began, MSF is now closing its last projects in West Africa dedicated to caring for people who survived the disease. Project Update - 21 Oct 2016
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Dadaab: Return of refugees to Somalia in current conditions ‘inhumane and irresponsible’
A report by MSF shows that more than eight out of ten people living in Dadaab do not want to return to Somalia Press Release - 13 Oct 2016
Africa