5-30 | The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) evacuated its team from the western Libyan city of Zintan on Friday 27 May, following repeated shelling.“The city centre has been shelled every afternoon over the last few days, with several rockets landing just 100 to 200 metres from the hospital,” says Dr Morten ROSTRUP, an intensive care doctor with MSF. Fortunately, no severe casualties occurred.
5-27 | As violence escalates in a refugee camp on the Tunisia-Libya border, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed about the situation of refugees stranded in temporary camps and exposed to violence.Hundreds of thousands of refugees have passed through Shousha camp since the start of the Libyan conflict, but some 4,000 people – mainly sub-Saharan Africans – cannot be repatriated due to the situation in their country of origin and face an uncertain future.
5-19 | MSF criticises inconsistent European policies claiming to protect civilians by engaging in a war while closing its borders to them An open letter by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) addressed to the leaders of the states of the European Union involved in the war in Libya is being published today in 13 newspapers across Europe*.
5-19 | (This letter was sent to Heads of State or Governments of Member States of the European Union, to Presidents of European Institutions, and to the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Organisation for Migration. It was subsequently published in national newspapers in countries throughout the European Union.)Thursday, 19 May 2011.
5-18 | Since 30 April, an MSF team is working in the hospital of Zintan, a city located in western Libya, south west of the capital of Tripoli, in the Nafusah Mountain region. For weeks now, Zintan and the surrounding area have been the battleground between pro-Gaddafi forces and the insurgency, fighting over this region of strategic importance, resulting in clashes over the Tunisian border of Dehiba at the beginning of April. More than 40,000 Libyans are reported to have fled the region to Tunisia since early May.