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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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11/03/2008 |
Sri Lanka |
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They have just escaped bombings in Darfur, but do not have a choice other than to return there in order to get the most urgent supplies. The Sudanese refugees who recently arrived in the Birak area in Chad remain in a critical...
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04/03/2008 |
Chad, Sudan |
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The tightened blockade in recent days has sharply restricted resupplying activities in the Gaza Strip. Médecins Sans Frontières teams are continuing their aid activities on site, but are concerned about shortages of medicine,...
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22/01/2008 |
Palestinian Territories |
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Gulatun is due to give birth in two months time, but the baby’s placenta is blocking her uterus, meaning she will need a caesarean section.
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05/10/2010 |
Pakistan |
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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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In Cambodia, just over one hundred kilometres up the Mekong River north-east of the capital Phnom Penh, lies a provincial town called Kampong Cham. Here, a small Médecins Sans Frontières team are working hard to improve...
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23/03/2011 |
Cambodia |
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Médecins Sans Frontières has set up treatment centres in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria after an outbreak of cholera occurred in a number of places in the whole region.
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30/09/2010 |
Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria |
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Following the spread of a cholera epidemic in the capital city of Yaoundé in Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières opened a cholera treatment centre and provided care for hundreds of patients.
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09/05/2011 |
Cameroon |
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An upsurge in attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in late April caused thousands of people to leave their homes and head for the small rural town of Zémio, in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR). Since...
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23/07/2010 |
Central African Republic |
