South Sudan
South Sudan facing multiple emergencies - Médecins Sans Frontières supporting health structures near the border with Sudan and assisting displaced people
27/04/2012
Tensions and hostilities continue unabated between South Sudan and its northern neighbour Sudan, and Médecins Sans Frontières is scaling up its emergency response by treating people injured in the latest violence, giving material...
South Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières assists patients wounded in aerial bombardment near disputed border area
13/04/2012
Agok-Geneva, 12 April 2012 – The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is treating patients wounded on 10 April in aerial bombardments in Abiemnom, Unity State, South Sudan. Violence has taken place in the...
Patient Testimony: Refugees fleeing Blue Nile violence
15/03/2012
Man, El Fuj [border crossing point near Jamam Camp]There was fighting and no one could help us. We hid in the bush and survived by sneaking out and found food in the houses that had been left behind. After 8-9 days, we left our...
Missing the boat? Debating humanitarian access while time runs out for Blue Nile refugees*
15/03/2012
Recent weeks have seen an international war of words about humanitarian access to South Kordofan and Blue Nile States along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Regional states, belligerents, international organisations,...
South Sudan: Window of opportunity closing fast to provide assistance to 80,000 Sudanese refugees from Blue Nile State
15/03/2012
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan urgently need humanitarian aid to be scaled up in a short window of opportunity that is rapidly closing before the rainy season starts, warns the international medical...