7-3 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the violent intrusion by armed members of Afghan Special Forces in the organisation’s trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The incident is an unacceptable breach of International Humanitarian Law, which protects medical services from attacks. On Wednesday 1 July at 14:07, heavily armed men from Afghan Special Forces entered the MSF hospital compound, cordoned off the facility and began shooting in the air. The armed men physically assaulted three MSF staff members and entered the hospital with weapons.
7-3 | The cancellation of monthly food rations in July for 49,500 Malian refugees in Mbera Camp is likely to cause a rise in global acute malnutrition levels, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which provides medical care and malnutrition support in the camp. MSF calls on the international donor community to ensure that refugees in Mbera camp have reliable sources of food. The World Food Programme (WFP), faced with financial shortfalls, has been unable to secure financing for the general food distribution in July.
7-1 | Tensions are rising in eastern Libya and, as a result, medical needs are increasing. Fighting in the region has now expanded beyond the city of Benghazi, which has been the scene of armed confrontations for more than a year, to Derna, the stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in the area, where clashes started three weeks ago. This violence has strained the health care system and triggered population movements, in particular Benghazi. A Médecins Sans Frontières team has been based in Al-Bayda, in eastern Libya, for two months.
6-30 | "We believe that the violence will continue during Ramadan: a ceasefire won’t be implemented unless the two warring parties respect it." Jasmin Mohammed Ali (26) is a teacher in the primary school in Qatabah and her sisterAsia Mohammed Ali ( 25) talk about their daily life in Qatabah since the conflict erupted. Because of the ongoing crisis, the school I work in is closed; it has been closed for 3 months. We only finished the 1st term and had to stop during the 2nd term.
6-26 | Heavy clashes between Afghan security forces and armed opposition groups in the north-eastern province of Kunduz have led to a surge in wounded arriving at Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz city. From 20 to 23 June, MSF’s medical teams treated 77 patients directly wounded in the fighting; one-third of these patients were women and children. The majority of wounded patients admitted to the trauma centre came from Chardara district, around ten kilometres from Kunduz city, which has been engulfed by fighting since Saturday 20 June.