1-25 | A new wave of fighting has gripped Myanmar over the past two months. MSF is providing medical humanitarian assistance in Shan, Kachin and Rakhine states, and we have witnessed healthcare facilities damaged or abandoned and hundreds of thousands of newly displaced people attempting to flee for safety.
1-16 | At one hour past midnight on January 7, a fire broke out in Camp 5, one of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It took three hours to bring the blaze under control, but that was enough time for the fire to destroy nearly 900 shelters and damage hundreds more. As a result, 7,000 Rohingya refugees are now without shelter. Again.
1-16 | At one hour past midnight on January 7, a fire broke out in Camp 5, one of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It took three hours to bring the blaze under control, but that was enough time for the fire to destroy nearly 900 shelters and damage hundreds more. As a result, 7,000 Rohingya refugees are now without shelter. Again.
1-10 | Médecins Sans Frontières condemns in the strongest possible terms the January 8 strike on an MSF shelter, which led to the death of the five-year-old daughter of an MSF staff member.
1-10 | “The situation has been bad for years here. Israeli soldiers search our houses day and night, vandalise and arrest people without any warning,” says Alma*, a Palestinian woman from Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as she describes the situation since the Israel-Gaza war erupted on 7 October.