Heavy fighting over the last few days in Walikale, a town in the troubled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has forced MSF to suspend its medical activities despite the area being in the midst of a malaria outbreak. Press Release - 18 Jul 2012

Malnutrition

Malnutrition in the Sahel requires long-term solutions

The annual peak of malnutrition in the Sahel region has begun, exacerbated in parts of the region by higher market prices, epidemics and political instability. One million severely malnourished children are expected to receive treatment. "Nutritional crises are recurrent and cyclical in this region, but this year, additional factors have created pockets where malnutrition is even higher than usual." Press Release - 17 Jul 2012

South Sudan

Deteriorating health situation for refugees in Yida camp

Close to 500 people are arriving at the refugee camp in Yida every day. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, reports that 63,500 people are living in a camp that was originally intended for 15,000 people. The refugees are arriving in extremely poor health, having walked for days, and sometimes weeks, across the Nuba mountains, to escape conflict and food insecurity. Press Release - 13 Jul 2012

Yemen

Landmine victims on the rise

Over the past four weeks, staff at MSF’s emergency surgical centre in Aden have seen a sharp rise in the number of victims of landmines and unexploded ordnances in southern Yemen. Concerted efforts by authorities and specialist organisations are urgently needed to prevent further casualties. Press Release - 12 Jul 2012

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF maintains operations on Rutshuru territory

Fighting resumed in early July in the region of Rutshuru, after a brief lull. Rebels of the March 23, 2009 movement (M23) advanced towards the towns of Jomba Chengerero, Rwanguba and Bunagana until they took control of Rutshuru and Kiwanja on Sunday, 8 July. MSF continues to provide healthcare to the people in this region. Press Release - 10 Jul 2012

South Sudan

Jamam refugee camp under water

Mortality rates are exceeding emergency thresholds in a refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, currently home to a quarter of roughly 120,000 refugees who have fled Sudan’s Blue Nile state since late last year. The onset of heavy seasonal rains flooded the camps and gravely expanded the risk of illness for the already weakened refugees. MSF warns of worsening crisis in the camps. Press Release - 5 Jul 2012

Access to medicines

EU parliament rejects ACTA

EU parliament rejects agreement that risks limiting
access to legitimate generic medicines in developing countries Press Release - 5 Jul 2012

Côte d'Ivoire

Renewed violence hits western region

Following new attacks earlier this week near Taï, at the Liberian border, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has strengthened its treatment capacity in Taï and Duékoué hospitals to prepare for a possible influx of wounded patients. Healthcare workers and a portion of the population have already fled the fighting in the area south of Taï, leaving critical gaps in access to medical care. Press Release - 18 Jun 2012

Myanmar

Victims of recent clashes must have access to healthcare

With continued tension and unrest in Rakhine state, Myanmar, MSF is concerned that those people most affected by violence and deep communal divisions are unable to receive medical treatment. Press Release - 18 Jun 2012

Somali refugees arrive in Ifo 2 camp after being moved by officials from the outskirts of Dagahaley camp. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is grossly over capacity, and the refugees experience an ever-shrinking access to essential services such as water, sanitation, food and shelter, also because they have been sharing their rations with the new arrivals. At the current pace of arrival MSF estimates that the camp's population will total 500'000 before the end of 2011, and living conditions are only expected to deteriorate further.

Kenya

Dadaab: The camps cannot go on

20 years after their establishment, the Dadaab camps in Kenya’s northeastern province have become a permanent home for the majority of those who have sought shelter there. In a new briefing paper 'Dadaab: Shadows of Lives', released ahead of World Refugee Day, MSF calls for solutions for Dadaab’s half a million Somali refugees. Press Release - 14 Jun 2012

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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MSF forced to suspend medical activities in Walikale