12-18 | The hospitals in the northern city of Aleppo have found themselves overwhelmed after a wave of airstrikes killed over 100 people and left many more injured in the last few days, according to local medical sources. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the hospitals in the area with medical supplies to deal with the emergency. Syrian helicopters started dropping barrel bombs on December 15 on several areas of eastern Aleppo.
12-18 | On December 5, 2013, several hundred people were killed during armed clashes that shook the city of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic.
12-16 | Your Excellencies, Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing assistance to victims of the Syrian conflict since April 2011. We welcome the diplomatic negotiations which are needed to address the urgent humanitarian needs in this extremely violent conflict. But we would like to draw your attention to the vital subject of cross-border aid for the population living in opposition controlled areas.
12-16 | Your Excellencies, Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing assistance to victims of the Syrian conflict since April 2011. We welcome the diplomatic negotiations which are needed to address the urgent humanitarian needs in this extremely violent conflict. But we would like to draw your attention to the vital subject of cross-border aid for the population living in opposition controlled areas.
12-13 | An open letter to the United Nations As UN humanitarian organisations agree to further mobilise resources in response to the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic, MSF has released an open letter addressed to Valérie AMOS, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, expressing that this decision has to be urgently translated in reality. It urges that until now, UN organisations have failed to deliver an adequate response to the gravity and the scale of