Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is profoundly disappointed that Canada and other G7 countries failed to use their power at this month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit to defend international humanitarian law (IHL) and the lives of civilians caught in conflict. At a time when medical care and aid workers are being deliberately targeted, humanitarian [...]Read More... from Flashquote: MSF on Canada’s missed opportunity to stand up for humanity at the G7 Summit| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination [...]Read More... from Speech: MSF Highlights Three Urgent Humanitarian Crise...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a [...]Read More... from Mpox: MSF responds to WHO declaring mpox a public health emergency of international concern| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In recent days, the Masisi Territory of North Kivu province has been the scene of major clashes between the armed group M23/AFC and the Congolese army, backed by allied elements. These clashes have led to large population movements in the area – some 102,000 people in less than a week, according to United Nations Office [...]Read More... from DRC: MSF treats nearly 160 wounded people in North and South Kivu following recent armed clashes with M23| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Esther, Rebecca, Tuliya and Daphrose are from the same family. Together, they fled the fighting between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army in North Kivu, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For the past year and a half, the four women have been living in the Elohim [...]Read More... from DRC : “Displaced Lives” 4 women in Goma’s displaced camps| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Faced with a resurgence of violent incidents affecting healthcare services in the ongoing conflict in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) once again condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of weapons in and around healthcare facilities. The latest example [...]Read More... from Goma, DRC: Shooting leaves one person dead in the Kyeshero hospital| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff has been critically injured after shots hit the MSF base in Masisi town, in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, on the morning of Feb. 20. A child who had sought refuge with his family in the MSF compound was also wounded by gunfire. MSF strongly [...]Read More... from Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF staff member critically injured in Masisi town| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In recent weeks, the armed conflict between the M23/AFC and the Congolese army, backed by their allies, has flared up again in the province of North Kivu and spread to the neighbouring province of South Kivu. Emmanuel Lampaert, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) representative in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), provides an update on [...]Read More... from Democratic Republic of Congo: Three questions on intensification of armed conflict in North and South Kivu| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
On Sunday, Jan. 19, two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) workers were slightly injured when a rocket hit the MSF garage next to the Masisi General Referral Hospital (HGR) in the town of Masisi, North Kivu. On the same day, another rocket hit a latrine near the hospital. The hospital and the MSF staff [...]Read More... from North Kivu, DRC: Masisi General Referral Hospital hit again by gunfire leaving two MSF staff slightly injured| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Esther is a mother of three sheltering at a camp for displaced people in North Kivu, a province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She and her family have fled war three times in recent months. “I had hope of returning and getting my life back,” she recently told Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières [...]Read More... from Eastern DRC: The human cost of global humanitarian funding gaps| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
“The most important thing you can do is let the world know what is happening here.” This recent plea from Dr. Abu Baker, a hospital director in the West Bank, is a familiar one for our teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The simple request – to share the grave realities we [...]Read More... from Shut up and provide aid: why weaponizing neutrality against humanitarian organizations must not silence us| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
