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Dadaab: the reduction of activities may have dramatic consequences on refugees

In the second half of 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières witnessed increased insecurity in the camps...

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Médecins Sans Frontières resumes activities in Dinsor, new project opens in Beledweyne

In the following interview, Gustavo Fernandez, Head of Mission in Somalia for Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland, explains some of the challenges faced by Médecins Sans Frontières in bringing medical humanitarian action to the...

26/01/2007 Somalia

Displaced in eastern Chad: One koro of millet to feed thirteen mouths

A plough lies in the shade of the straw hut and is a reminder of the time when M. Abdulai was still a farmer. Agriculture didn’t make him rich. Everything that is harvested at the end of the brief vegetation period in Chad’s dry...

02/02/2007 Chad

Heavy fighting erupts in Cité Soleil, a deprived slum of Port-au-Prince

Early in the morning of January 24th, heavy fighting erupted between UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti troops (MINUSTAH) and local armed groups in the Haitian capital’s slum of Cité Soleil.

15/02/2007 Haiti

Urban violence and health care, a new challenge for Médecins Sans Frontières?

Haiti, the poorest country of the Americas with eight million inhabitants has been plagued by political violence for most of its history. A rebellion forced President Aristide out of the country in 2004. The UN Security Council,...

16/02/2007 Haiti

Fear in the heart of India

India is known to be a land with enormous differences dividing the poor and the rich. However, few people know that there is also a great contrast there between living freely and living in fear. The country is the scene of a...

20/02/2007 India

Interview: Moving On The Unsafe Roads of Darfur

Médecins Sans Frontières has been in Darfur, Sudan since January 2004. Dr Rowan Gillies worked in West Darfur in the Mornay camp in July 2004. He returned to Darfur in October last year, and following his visit a leading article...

23/02/2007 Sudan

Meningitis: Limited vaccine threatens Médecins Sans Frontières response to epidemics

26/02/2007 Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda

Still violence, still suffering

As envoys from the United Nations and the African Union arrive in Khartoum and depart after another round of talks, the conflict in Darfur rumbles on. The humanitarian situation in this troubled western region of Sudan remains...

26/02/2007 Sudan

Interview with Dr. Cathy Hewison, Médecins Sans Frontières' meningitis specialist

Barely two months into Africa’s dry season, there are several countries facing severe outbreaks of meningitis. Médecins Sans Frontières is already responding to epidemics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, and...

27/02/2007

Médecins Sans Frontières concludes mass meningitis vaccination campaign in West Nile

Médecins Sans Frontières has completed a mass meningitis-vaccination campaign in two districts of the West Nile region of Uganda, supervising the vaccination of 291,000 people and assisting with the vaccination of 333,000 more....

27/02/2007 Uganda
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