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Thousands of displaced people caught up in renewed fighting west of Goma

Democratic Republic of Congo / 22.05.13

Fighting with heavy weapons between the Congolese army (FARDC) and the rebel group M23 resumed yesterday to the west of the provincial capital Goma. The heavy fighting and positioning of combatants so close to towns and...

Médecins Sans Frontières hospital destroyed, leaving 100,000 without healthcare

South Sudan / 20.05.13

Médecins Sans Frontières strongly condemns the destruction at its hospital in Pibor town, South Sudan, purposefully conducted to leave the hospital inoperative. This leaves around 100,000 people, who had fled into the bush...

Children treated after attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo / 17.05.13

Médecins Sans Frontières is treating survivors of an attack on Mpeti in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The village, which is home to around one thousand people, was attacked by men armed with...

Despite insecurity, Médecins sans Frontières continues to carry out its vital work in Pinga

Democratic Republic of Congo / 10.05.13

Ten days after fighting took a heavy toll in the town of Pinga, North Kivu Province, the situation remains tense and unpredictable. More people are fleeing as rumours of potential fighting continue to be spread among the...

Médecins Sans Frontières concerned for population safety as blasts rip Pakistan ahead of elections

Pakistan / 10.05.13

Médecins Sans Frontières teams, together with Ministry of Health staff, have treated over 110 blast victims injured in election-related violence in health facilities in Hangu, Kurram Agency and Lower Dir over the last four days....

Médecins Sans Frontières mobile TB surgery brings hope to Armenian patients

Armenia / 06.05.13

A mobile Médecins Sans Frontières tuberculosis (TB) surgery mission has successfully completed surgery on six drug-resistant (DR) TB patients in Yeravan, Armenia – the first mobile TB surgery ever carried out by the international...

Renewed violence hits Pinga in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo / 06.05.13

Heavy fighting over the last few days in Pinga, a town in the conflict-afflicted North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has made it difficult for Médecins Sans Frontières to carry out its vital medical...

Urgent humanitarian assistance needed for 50,000 displaced by Darfur violence

Chad / 02.05.13

Around 50,000 people have poured into the Tissi region of south-east Chad to escape clashes in neighbouring Darfur.

More than 1,600 migrants released from smugglers hands, some of them victims of torture

Yemen / 01.05.13

Since April 7, Yemeni authorities have released 1,620 migrants who were held by smugglers in farms, some of them for months, in Haradh region, in the north of the country. The international medical organisation Médecins Sans...

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