As cycles of violence return to Ituri province, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and are living in precarious and dangerous conditions in displacement camps. Project Update - 19 Jan 2022

A man drags a tarpaulin raft through the flood in Rubkona, Unity State.

Across Unity state people’s homes and livelihoods (crops and cattle), as well as health facilities, schools, and markets, are completely submerged by floodwaters.

South Sudan

Hundreds of thousands of people in dire conditions months after floods

In South Sudan, over 800,000 people have been directly affected by flooding, which has left them in precarious conditions, vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. Project Update - 7 Jan 2022

Much of the local economy depends on the rearing of livestock such as cows, goats and camels. Because of a lack of rain and a very bad harvest this year, it has become difficult for famers to feed their animals. Some have taken their cattle south to find pastures, or to sell their animals.

Chad

“If the rain abandons us again, we don’t know what we will do”

In Chad, malnutrition has become a chronic crisis, due to multiple causes, including poor harvests - linked to climate change - inadequate dietary choices as well as socio-cultural factors. Project Update - 6 Jan 2022

Chad

Tens of thousands of people flee Cameroon as violence spreads

As violence spreads on the Cameroonian border, thousands of people have fled to Chad where our teams respond to the needs of people caught in precarious conditions. Project Update - 4 Jan 2022

Sudan

MSF leaves legacy of community hospital in White Nile state

Seven years after launching an emergency response for South Sudanese refugees and local communities in Sudan’s White Nile state, we are handing over activities to the Ministry of Health. Project Update - 21 Dec 2021

Image of a destroyed ambulance of the health centre in Muatide, in the district of Muidumbe in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.

Mozambique

"It's extremely volatile" – people in Cabo Delgado continue to flee violence

Hundreds of thousands of people have sought refuge from ongoing conflict in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique - our teams continue to treat people in need of medical attention while on the move. Interview - 21 Dec 2021

Dr. Théo (phile) has done countless interventions with the emergency pool of MSF Congo in the most remote areas of the country. He’s a man of experience, he has seen all kind of epidemics: measles, cholera, yellow fever, … but this time it’s his first Ebola intervention. “It’s interesting that after all this years of experience I’m all of a sudden a bit of a rookie again. But I’m learning so much here.”

DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's thirteenth Ebola outbreak

On 8 October 2021, DRC declared an outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu province, which was the country’s thirteenth in just over 40 years, and the fifth in the last two years. Crisis Update - 20 Dec 2021

Someone shows a bullet that landed on France's property in Damala, a neighbourhood parallel to the road where the fighting happened on 13 January 2021.

France Beldo, 31, was wounded during this clash between rebel groups and the national forces supported by their international allies on the outskirts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

Another bullet is still lodged in her shoulder. France says: "We cannot stay in such violence all the time, with the sounds of guns. Fear is winning people over. We cannot go out, if we do, we are always fearful."

Central African Republic

A visual journey through a year of renewed violence in an old conflict

We take a visual journey through a photo essay detailing the struggles of people in CAR and how our teams support those with myriad needs through medical care. Project Update - 17 Dec 2021

Kenya

Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close

With the planned closure of Kenya’s refugee camps, a precarious future awaits hundreds of thousands of Somalis. Press Release - 6 Dec 2021

Kenya

In search of dignity: Refugees in Kenya face a reckoning

A new Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report outlines the potential dangers facing refugees in Kenya who will find themselves abandoned after camps close next year. Report - 6 Dec 2021

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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Thousands of people in precarious conditions as violence set to repeat in Ituri