From a snakebite survivor to an active health promoter in South Sudan

Noon Makor Arop, an MSF health promoter and community engagement supervisor in Abyei, South Sudan, describes what happened when he was bitten by a snake. doctorswithoutborders.ca - 30 Jan 2026

General view of Tawila landscape. Rooted in a decades-long history of attacks, reprisals and displacement, the town is now home to displaced people who have fled El Fasher and its surrounding camps Zamzam and Abu Shok.

Conflict in Sudan

MSF finds El Fasher largely destroyed and empty during visit

During a recent visit to El Fasher, in Darfur, Sudan, MSF teams found the town devastated and largely empty of people following a brutal siege. Project Update - 28 Jan 2026

Burundi

The humanitarian situation for refugees in Burundi remains alarming

MSF teams are providing water and medical care to Congolese refugees who have newly arrived in Burundi. Project Update - 14 Jan 2026

A view of mud houses in Raees Golam Mustafa Golla, in Dera Murad Jamali, nearly 40km from the MSF facility in DMJ. These homes are often damaged when rains put residents' lives at risk during the monsoon season, which typically runs from July to September.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Harsh winter conditions deepen humanitarian crisis for Afghans in Pakistan

Mass deportations and winter conditions are pushing Afghan refugees in Pakistan into a deepening humanitarian and health crisis. Project Update - 2 Jan 2026

Maria, the newborn, is lying next to her mother in the postnatal care ward at the Nawa National Hospital.

Since July 2025, MSF is supporting the maternity department at the Nawa National Hospital, providing maternal and inborn neonate care, health promotion, and mental health support.

Syria

Addressing people’s medical needs in Dara’a after years of conflict

MSF teams respond to people's medical needs in Dara'a governorate, Syria, after years of conflict. Project Update - 24 Dec 2025

Ferdos holds her 11-month-old baby, Banan, who is infected with measles, in the isolation ward at El Geneina Teaching Hospital, supported by MSF. War forced Ferdos and her family to flee to El Geneina, where they live in overcrowded conditions with other families. Her son contracted measles and infected his 11-month-old daughter.

Conflict in Sudan

Measles cases surge in Darfur, Sudan, despite months of calling for vaccination

Our teams in Central, South, and West Darfur are seeing measles cases rise in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign. Project Update - 19 Dec 2025

Maria João, a displaced person from Memba District, receives a medical consultation at an MSF mobile clinic in Alua Velha, Eráti District, Nampula Province.
Her health has deteriorated due to injuries from fleeing and possible infections, while her children, aged 10 and 13, face dietary and health challenges. Despite seeking medical help, the local clinic lacked medicines.

Maria fled attacks carried out by a Non-State Armed Group active in Norther Mozambique. She arrived in Alua Velha with her husband and two children, having escaped gunfire and destruction in her home village of Necoro, in Memba district. They walked 25 km before taking a motorbike to reach safety. Initially, they lived under a mango tree for five days before moving into her husband’s family home, which is now overcrowded with 15 people and insufficient resources. In Necoro, she sold mahewe (a fermented beverage made from corn flour, water and sugar) but her house and freezer where she stored the beverage were burned, and her husband’s motorbike was destroyed.

She reports being too frightened to return to Necoro, where violence, including beheadings and arson, has displaced her four times since 2024.

Although she sometimes helps with farming in Alua Velha, she has no clear plans for the future and lacks the means to rebuild her life. The conflict has impacted her health, food security and finances, leaving her with no belongings or prospects.

Mozambique

MSF begins emergency response after 100,000 people flee violence in northern Mozambique

MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services. Project Update - 16 Dec 2025

MoH doctor working with MSF, Nyantau Mancit Samuel examines a female patient at the resuscitation area of the MSF supported Accident and Emergency unit at Gwoza General Hospital, Gwoza local government area of Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

Nigeria

MSF launches emergency medical services in Gwoza, Borno state

MSF began emergency medical activities at Gwoza General hospital in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, in August 2025. Project Update - 11 Dec 2025

Dr. Carlos Camacho, an MSF medical doctor, and Apalessio Sanöma Ye’kwana, an MSF intercultural mediator, during a medical examination with a boy from the Fuduuwaaduinha community. All activities are carried out with the support of intercultural mediators—community members who speak both languages and help bridge communication between medical teams and patients.

Brazil

MSF wraps up activities in northern Brazil

Over nearly three years, our work in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory strove to respect traditional practices and improve medical care. Project Update - 11 Dec 2025

At the Mweso General Hospital, a mother holds her two-year-old daughter, injured by a bomb blast.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Piecing together bodies and minds amid violence in eastern DRC

Civilians are paying the heaviest price of the ongoing armed violence across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as they suffer from trauma wounds, mental health issues and are victims of sexual violence. Project Update - 9 Dec 2025

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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