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Afghanistan
MSF strongly condemns violence against humanitarian workers and facilities following the attack on an office of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jalalabad on 29 May.
Central African Republic
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Nearly half a million Syrians are now refugees in Jordan, making up a third of the 1.5 million people who have fled the conflict in Syria to neighboring countries. More than 100,000 of them live in Zaatari camp, situated in the North of the country, less than 20 km from the Syrian border. Up until last month, one thousand refugees continued to arrive daily at the camp, which has become the largest camp for Syrian refugees in the region.
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“Sometimes we just want to die. We can’t move. We can’t leave. We can’t fish. We just want to fish.” Man in Myebon township, Rakhine State, Myanmar
Nearly a year since deadly inter-ethnic clashes in Rakhine state first broke out, conditions in the displaced persons camps, combined with movement restrictions and ongoing segregation of Rakhine and Muslim communities, are severely impacting on healthcare said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
5-6 | MSF Psychologist Audrey MAGIS has just returned from spending two months working in Syria. Her role was to set up and run a mental health programme in one of MSF’s projects in the north of the country. Previously she had worked for MSF in Gaza, in Libya and in a camp for Syrian refugees. She explains how the war has affected people and what MSF is doing to help. In most places I have worked, people are rather hesitant when I tell them that I am a psychologist. But in Syria, it was quite the opposite.
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Decades of conflict, political instability and social upheaval have left many Iraqis vulnerable to psychological stress, mental health disorders and in need of mental health care says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report launched in Baghdad.