![Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf236305_medium.jpg?itok=F0qSKZPf "Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]")
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Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
Increase in kidnappings and extreme violence against migrants on the southern border of Mexico
The policies of criminalisation, persecution, detention and deportation applied in Mexico in order to contain migratory flows to the northern border with the US have forced the migrant population to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes where they are more vulnerable to criminal gangs and violence during their journey through Mexico.Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
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Article - 28 Oct 2019
South Sudan: “The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”
MSF medical team leader Benedetta Capelli is just back from Pibor, in South Sudan, where rising floodwaters have engulfed MSF’s hospital and much of the surrounding area. She spoke to us on 24 October 2019.Article - 28 Oct 2019
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Severe flooding in South Sudan: MSF assessing emergency needs in affected locations
Severe flooding has left thousands of people stranded in inaccessible areas in the east and north east of South Sudan , threatening to make worse an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Press Release - 21 Oct 2019![Stone crushing at Bagega gold processing site, Zamfara state, Nigeria. A pilot program to introduce safer mining practices in Nigerian gold mining communities has reduced blood lead levels by 32% [Photo: Olga Overbeek ]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf116708_medium.jpg?itok=i-A0yqQ7 "Stone crushing at Bagega gold processing site, Zamfara state, Nigeria. A pilot program to introduce safer mining practices in Nigerian gold mining communities has reduced blood lead levels by 32% . [Photo: Olga Overbeek ]")
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Lead poisoning reduced with safer mining practices in Nigeria
A pilot program to introduce safer mining practices in Nigerian gold mining communities shows reduced blood lead levels by 32% Press Release - 21 Oct 2019
Mental Health
Travelling the world for better mental health care
By Harriet Ogayo MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
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Panic over scarcity of life-saving HIV drug in hospitals
By Angela Oketch MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
Refugees, Migration and displacement
It is an endless life of hopelessness and anxiety for many refugees
By Sandra Wekesa and Evelyn Makena MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
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The long shadow of the Ebola response; a health system at risk of turmoil
In Mabalako, a rural health zone in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Ebola epidemic has taken its toll on the fragile health system. Project Update - 11 Oct 2019
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