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Somalia: Médecins Sans Frontières concludes cholera intervention in Balcad, Middle Shabelle.

Médecins Sans Frontières medical teams in Middle Shabelle have responded to a cholera outbreak...

Médecins Sans Frontières surgical team enters Syria, finds wounded and medics under attack

In late March, a Médecins Sans Frontières team crossed the Turkish border into Syria in an effort...

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Italy: Another tragedy in the Mediterranean for escapees from Libyan war

On the night of August 4, Médecins Sans Frontières and other agencies provided medical assistance to about 360 survivors of a boat that sank near the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The authorities estimated that up to...

09/08/2011 Italy, Libya

Bahrain: Médecins Sans Frontières welcomes the release of arrested translator

Médecins Sans Frontières welcomes the release of Saeed Mahdi, and recognises that he has now been granted access to a lawyer.

08/08/2011 Bahrain

Médecins Sans Frontières distributes relief goods to 600 displaced families in Jilib

Over 3600 people who have found temporary shelter in the southern-Somali town of Jilib (Lower Juba Valley) received plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and soap. The goods were provided by our team that runs a large therapeutic...

08/08/2011 Somalia

Yemen - Médecins Sans Frontières continues its emergency operations

Aspirations for change, secession claims, and tribal conflicts are all fuelling the tensions in Yemen. Although the situation has calmed somewhat since June, it is still marked by instability and the lack of access to care in...

08/08/2011 Yemen

Kenya: Médecins Sans Frontières launches nutrition program in Turkana District

Médecins Sans Frontières launched an emergency nutrition project in the Turkana district in northwestern Kenya on July 18. Teams are working in two areas in Turkana—Lapur and Kibish divisions—where few humanitarian agencies have...

01/08/2011 Kenya

From one desert to another: Médecins Sans Frontières deeply concerned by the current relocation of refugees to Ifo 3 camp in Dadaab

Medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières is deeply concerned by the relocation of Somali refugees in Dadaab to Ifo 3 extension camp. The relocation, which began yesterday under the auspices of the UNHCR, has...

27/07/2011 Kenya, Somalia

Somalia: People on the move in unseen proportions

While more than 2000 Somalis cross the borders into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself the movement of people desperately seeking food and medical help is also taking unseen proportions....

22/07/2011 Somalia

Returning to Bougainville’s neglected south

After a ten year absence, the international medical-humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, has returned to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, to assist in delivering much-needed healthcare in...

15/07/2011 Papua New Guinea

Humanitarian crisis in the outskirts of the overcrowded Dadaab camp

Médecins Sans Frontières has found alarmingly high rates of malnutrition among the Somali refugees arriving and settling in the outskirts of the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya. The organisation will therefore...

14/07/2011 Kenya, Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières is reinforcing its support to Kurram hospitals to respond to the influx of displaced people

Over the last week, a military operation in Kurram agency (situated in the Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas) led to displacement of population. Over 10,000 people have reportedly moved from the fighting areas. In...

11/07/2011 Pakistan
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