![Flooded areas around Pibor. [Photo: Léo Martine/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf291270_medium.jpg?itok=QArdvRfo "Flooded areas around Pibor. [Photo: Léo Martine/MSF]")
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A state of emergency declared as flooding in South Sudan ensues
The government of South Sudan has declared a state of emergency in 27 flood-affected areas across the country. Press Release - 1 Nov 2019
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Treating People Amid Flood Disaster in South Sudan
Videos and Photos - 1 Nov 2019
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MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Newer medicines for DR-TB are desperately needed, but barriers to access, including high prices, keep them out of reach for most people around the world. Press Release - 31 Oct 2019![Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance [Photo: Yuna Cho/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf281414_medium.jpg?itok=UHxYnJb7 "Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance [Photo: Yuna Cho/MSF]")
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Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance
The conflict in northeast Nigeria continues, with Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in need of a massive and sustained humanitarian response. Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
![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
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