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South Sudan
Dramatic increase in patients in Malakal’s UN site as living conditions jeopardise health of thousands
Project Update
18 Nov 2015
Ukraine
Termination of MSF support to MDR-TB programme in the penitentiary system after accreditation was cancelled on 19 October
Project Update
13 Nov 2015
Journal article
Challenges in Responding to Massive Displacements in Resource-poor Settings
12 Nov 2015
Journal article
Central African Republic
MSF reinforces medical activities in Bangui following more than a month of renewed violence
Project Update
12 Nov 2015
Pneumonia
MSF launches global action against Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to cut the price of the pneumonia vaccine
Press Release
12 Nov 2015
![Agnes, 30, and her husband escaped Eritrea with the aim of reaching Europe. Unable to raise enough money for both their journeys, her husband was forced to stay in Sudan, and Agnes and her two-year-old daughter continued alone.
“I left Eritrea four years ago with my husband. My husband was made to serve in the army, and he couldn’t provide for us. If he left the army, he’d be put in jail. Many people go to jail for no reason in Eritrea.
When we left we went to Sudan. We spent three years going from place to place, looking for work and trying to make enough money to come to Europe. Finally we made a bit of money, but it wasn’t enough for all of us, so I left with my daughter. My husband couldn’t come with us.
Crossing the desert between Sudan and Libya was very difficult. It took seven days, non-stop, in an overcrowded car.
After crossing the border, we moved from one town to the next until we arrived in Tripoli. We travelled in containers, like animals or objects. It was very dark and hot in the containers. Many people fainted because of the heat and some died.
Libya is a very dangerous place. There are a lot of armed people. Some of them are Da’esh [Islamic State]. They kill a lot of people and carry out a lot of kidnappings.
When we arrived in Tripoli they put us in a house with 600 to 700 other people and locked us in. We had no water to wash ourselves, we had very little food and we were forced to sleep one upon the other. It was very difficult for my daughter – she fell sick many times.
There was a lot of violence. I was beaten with bare hands, with sticks, with guns. If you move, they beat you. If you talk, they beat you. We spent two months like that, being beaten every day.
They asked us to pay to go to Europe, so I paid US$1,700 for me and my daughter. We were lucky because women and children were put on the deck of the boat. The people below were in the dark and it was really hot down there. I could hear some of them saying they couldn’t breathe.
I knew that the journey would be very dangerous and difficult, especially for my daughter. But what was the alternative? We could not survive in Eritrea or Sudan. Our government does not allow people to leave. With our documents in Eritrea, there was no other way for us to get to Europe.”
ENDS](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/tloc4vgo3l81u1dmig6x263e710b38tw.jpg "Agnes: “I was beaten with bare hands, with sticks, with guns”")
Yemen
"The children have a game called airstrike in which they fall to the ground"
Voices from the Field
11 Nov 2015
Journal article
Reaching out to Ebola victims: Coercion, persuasion or an appeal for self-sacrifice?
10 Nov 2015
Journal article
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers
“Science should be at the service of survivors”
Voices from the Field
7 Nov 2015
Kunduz hospital attack
MSF releases internal review of the Kunduz hospital attack
Press Release
5 Nov 2015
Kunduz hospital attack
Interactive map of our Trauma Hospital in Kunduz before and after the attack
Project Update
4 Nov 2015
Journal article
Primer: Protection of medical services under International Humanitarian Law
3 Nov 2015
Journal article
Syria
At least 550 wounded in horrific market-bombing in Damascus besieged area
Press Release
31 Oct 2015
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