Gaza - Israel War
Israeli bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation is an outrageous attack on humanitarian assistance
Israel’s allies, which are all members of the United Nations, must stand against this move to criminalise humanitarian assistance and ensure that UNRWA can continue its essential work. Article - 30 May 2024
Gaza - Israel War
Gaza: Israel must end its campaign of death and destruction
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for an immediate end to the Rafah offensive and the ongoing atrocities across the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military strategy of repeatedly launching attacks in densely populated areas inevitably leads to the mass killing of civilians. Article - 28 May 2024
Conflict in Sudan
No Place Is Safe from Violent Fighting in El Fasher as Hospital Are Repeatedly Hit
Already, children in El Fasher lost access to specialist treatment when a bomb landed close to the city’s only paediatric hospital killing two children who were in the intensive care unit and damaging the facility. Article - 28 May 2024
Refugees, migration and displacement
DRC: civilians caught in the crossfire in the Kivus
Marie Brun is an emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She provides an update on the intensification of fighting between several armed groups, including the M23, and the Congolese armed forces since the start of the year, and the consequences for civilians who are once again being forced to endure the violence. Article - 25 May 2024
Access to Healthcare
Opening the door to young "Key Populations"
In November 2023, the photographer Nora Nussbaumer spent a week embedded in MSF's project providing medical assistance to adolescents and youth, including key and vulnerable populations in and around the city of Mombasa, in Kenya’s coast. Article - 24 May 2024
Conflict in Sudan
How women would do anything to save their family amid brutal Sudanese war
Most of the people who fled to Chad were women and children, as men have been killed, detained or disappeared in Sudan Article - 23 May 2024
War and conflict
Closed Ports, Empty Shelves: Haiti Urgently Needs Medical Supplies
If we do not receive our medical supply in the next two weeks, we will be forced to drastically reduce our operations. Press Release - 22 May 2024
Non-communicable diseases
Kenya: Reimagining a patient centered model of care in the management of diabetes and hypertension
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, epilepsy and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), among others, account for up to 39 in every 100 deaths in Kenya. Article - 17 May 2024
Access to healthcare
Vincent K’Omoth: Transforming healthcare through digital innovation - my MSF Journey in eHealth
My journey with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reminds me of the humble beginning that led me to where I am today, serving as a Mobile Implementation Officer in the eHealth team, which sees me travel from project to project, using technology to improve healthcare delivery in humanitarian settings. Stories from the Frontline - 16 May 2024
War and conflict