MSF team in Zhare Dasht, Afghanistan, resumes activities after security threat

Four armed men threatened to execute six people who were working with a de-mining agency. The de-miners managed to escape unharmed except for one, who was shot in the leg. Project Update - 5 Nov 2003

South Africa

Many children report to new MSF post-rape centre in Khayelitsha

In light of the shocking number of sexually abused children, MSF will evaluate the need to adapt its post rape programme to this reality. Project Update - 4 Nov 2003

Colombia

Isolated or forgotten, MSF mobile clinicsreach remote populations in Colombia

MSF travelling health facilities are essential to health care for rural populations, who almost seem to not have the right to fall ill. These visits may be their only contact to health professionals in years. Project Update - 31 Oct 2003

Somalia

MSF intervenes on both sides of Somalia clan conflict

"At the moment there are four major armed conflicts going on in Somalia, of which this is one. Two others are taking place near Baidoa, and the fourth in the Juba Valley, not too far from our new project there," said an MSF spokeperson. Project Update - 31 Oct 2003

Democratic Republic of Congo

New support project for Walikale hospital in DRC

MSF has started a new project in Walikale, some 150 kilometres east of Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Project Update - 29 Oct 2003

Russia

Arjan Erkel: EU presidency to intervene with Russian Government

In November, the EU's Italian Presidency will call on the Russian Federation for the release of Arjan Erkel during the EU-Russia summit hold in Roma. Project Update - 28 Oct 2003

Bolivia

A new calm follows protests in Bolivian capital

There were over 135 injured in the Miraflores Hospital, where MSF was present. Other hospitals in the city were also dealing with the injured, with the numbers straining the facilities and leaving many without materials or medicines. Project Update - 23 Oct 2003

War and conflict

Ingushetia, the last refuge from the scourge of war

This feature is one of a ten-country series that first appeared in the Belgian newspapers Le Soir (French) and De Standaard (Dutch). Prepared in cooperation with MSF, the series explores the lives of the civilian populations trying to survive in conflicts the world has all but forgotten. Project Update - 15 Oct 2003

Afghanistan

Afghanistan today: Neither safe nor stable

But two years after the Taliban was overthrown, and a new government installed in Kabul by the US-led Coalition, the people of Afghanistan have received very little. Project Update - 7 Oct 2003

Liberia

MSF provides medical help for survivors of sexual violence in war-ravaged Liberia

MSF Liberian staff, many whom have also been victims of the war, work in the camps to spread the message that treatment is available and give rape survivors the confidence to come forward for treatment. Project Update - 7 Oct 2003

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