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Afghanistan
On 26 January, a bomb blasted in the northern Kunduz province, MSF received 22 patients in its surgical hospital. Apart from Kunduz, MSF also works in Helmand and Khost provinces.The Democratic Republic of Congo
From 26 December 2012 to 19 January 2013, MSF teams vaccinated 65,082 children, aged 6 months to 15 years, against measles in the region of Bunyakiri in South Kivu.
2-6 | Katrin KISSWANI headed MSF’s activities in northern Syria for two months.‘We’ve been working mainly in the Jabal Al-Akkrad region, in the north of Idlib governorate, which is fairly mountainous and close to the border with Turkey. While some of these areas haven’t suffered the same frequency and intensity of fighting as areas further inland, the situation remains extremely volatile and dangerous.Helicopter attacks
1-30 | International aid provided to Syria is not being distributed equally between government and opposition controlled areas. The areas under government control receive nearly all international aid, while opposition-held zones receive only a tiny share. Donors must support cross-border humanitarian operations to reach opposition-held areas, says the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ahead of the Donors’ Conference for Syria in Kuwait City.
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As tensions increase between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to avoid harming civilians who have fled into the surrounding bush in their thousands.
The exact extent of the displacement is hard to quantify, but most of the villages along the 115km road from Shamwana to Dubie are empty, as are villages along the 70km stretch between Shamwana and Mpiana.
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All parties to the conflict in Syria should respect patients, medical staff and health facilities, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
On 24 January a missile landed 800 metres from an MSF field hospital in the Aleppo area, although no casualties were reported. On 13 January, after an airstrike on a market in the nearby town of Azaz, 20 wounded were treated at MSF’s hospital.
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