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On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières witnessed a group of around 30 police with local officials enter Kutupalong makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, and destroy 259 homes, looting people’s possessions in the...
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16/07/2009 |
Bangladesh |
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A violent crackdown on unrecognized Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh has driven thousands from their homes, into a makeshift camp in Kutupalong, where Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing medical care.
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04/03/2010 |
Bangladesh |
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It is still early in the morning, but the narrow alleyways of Kamrangirchar are already bustling with activity. The screeching sound of wood being sawed, the clunk of metal being hammered into shape, and the cacophony of small...
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18/10/2010 |
Bangladesh |
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It’s a warm noon of February in Complexo do Alemão when shooting suddenly starts. Complexo de Alemão is a deprived and violent neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, one of the main cities in Brazil. The area is well known for regular...
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06/03/2008 |
Brazil |
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“It is actually an area completely cut off from the rest of Rio, there are barriers that isolate it – the police cannot come in, the ambulances cannot fit through the narrow streets.”
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06/08/2008 |
Brazil |
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After severe floods struck northern Brazil in June, Médecins Sans Frontières sent a team to help authorities improve conditions for the 25,000 people displaced from their homes in Alagoas state, and to provide counselling for...
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15/09/2010 |
Brazil |
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Since last Tuesday, torrential rains have caused severe flooding in the mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro. More than 630 people are estimated to have been killed in the flooding and resulting landslides while thousands...
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18/01/2011 |
Brazil |
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Since Médecins Sans Frontières launched a malnutrition programme in Burkina Faso in September 2007, more than 23,440 children have been treated, and 88% out of all admitted patients were cured. About 80% of patients were treated...
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10/03/2009 |
Burkina Faso |
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Médecins Sans Frontières provides care to measles patients and asks for the announced mass vaccination campaign to be launched as soon as possible.
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29/05/2009 |
Burkina Faso |
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Flooding in West Africa has left more than 159 people dead and 600,000 displaced according to UN estimates. Médecins Sans Frontières has reinforced its teams in Burkina Faso and Niger to provide assistance, along with the Health...
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14/09/2009 |
Burkina Faso, Niger |
