7-20 | The health situation in Borno State in northeast Nigeria is critical. At least 500,000 people who are either displaced or cut off in enclaves outside state capital Maiduguri are in urgent need of food, medical care, drinking water and shelter. “Aid agencies must deploy a massive relief operation to respond to this health disaster”, says Dr Isabelle Defourny, Director of operations at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As the army regains control of the main towns and some villages in Borno State, the extent of the emergency is becoming all too apparent.
7-20 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the medical evacuation of war-wounded Syrians through the sealed northern border of Jordan.
6-30 | Around 60,000 people who are stuck in extremely harsh conditions close to Jordan’s northeastern border with Syria need humanitarian aid to be resumed immediately, and international protection has to be offered, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Thursday. In the wake of a suicide attack on a nearby military post on June 21st where seven Jordanian soldiers were killed and 14 others injured, no food or medical assistance - and only extremely limited water - has reached the people who have gathered in a large informal camp in the area known as the “Ber
6-21 | MSF releases a report on the response to February Malakal PoC attack Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has today released a report into the peacekeeping and humanitarian response following the attack on the Malakal Protection of Citizens (PoC) site on 17-18 February.
6-17 | EU States' dangerous approach to migration places ayslum in jeopardy worldwide Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today that it will no longer take funds from the European Union and Member States, in opposition to their damaging deterrence policies and intensifying attempts to push people and their suffering away from European shores.