29 / 09 / 2017
The first surprise was the sheer size of the attack on Marawi City by pro- Islamic State fighters. The crisis since – with 360,000 people displaced, and heavy combat into its fifth month – is equally unprecedented, leaving the Mindanao region of the Philippines
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17 / 08 / 2017
Despite the end of Colombia’s 50-year long conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) in November 2016, the country still faces many challenges. Other armed groups and criminal organizations are still active.
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14 / 08 / 2017
Dr. Tor Deng is a general practitioner working for MSF in Abyei, a region with special administrative status between Sudan and South Sudan. After graduating from medical school in Khartoum, he decided to come back to Abyei, his home region.
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21 / 07 / 2017
I used to work in the Accident and Emergency Department in Hong Kong. Sometimes I would hear my friends describe it as a "war zone".
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03 / 07 / 2017
One late night, our hospital received a patient with a gunshot wound and he needed emergency surgery. In Bor, you have to prepare everything yourself before operations, from electricity supply, to surgical gowns, instruments, etc.
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28 / 06 / 2017
When I was in Bor, my height did bring me some interesting encounters. Upon arrival at Juba, the capital of South Sudan, no one behind the immigration counter believed my age. They thought I was 15 years old.
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31 / 05 / 2017
During the three months in Bor, I never saw a patient nor their family shed a drop of tear. A woman who was pregnant with her second child came to the hospital.
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24 / 05 / 2017
“Doctor, doctor! Please come immediately!” Mama Teresa, our head nurse grabbed my hand the second I jumped off the MSF car in front of the office. “Come, come!” she urged. We rushed into the ward.
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18 / 05 / 2017
American medical doctor Theresa Chan is in Cambodia, based in MSF's hepatitis clinic in Phnom Penh.
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