Activity Update June 2015

MSF is particularly concerned about the effects of fighting in Upper Nile State. Humanitarian needs are growing, but aid organisations are finding it increasingly difficult to access the most severely affected areas, such as Wau Shilluk and Noon. Insecurity has also restricted MSF’s work in Malakal and Melut through June and July. Crisis Update - 31 Jul 2015

Los psicólogos sociales de MSF trabajan con niños, niñas y adolescentes, así como con adultos y adultos mayores. Con cada grupo etario se desarrolla una estrategia diferente. Con los adolescentes se busca reforzar la confianza en ellos mismos para que puedan expresar sus miedos.

Social psychologists from MSF work with children and adolescents, as well as adults and the elderly. A different strategy is employed with each age group. The goal with adolescents is to strengthen their self-confidence so that they are able to express their fears.

Mexico

Acapulco's population is exposed to violence on a daily basis

“The population is exposed to violence on a daily basis” says María Simón, coordinator of the MSF project in Acapulco. "The challenges we face are many, but without a doubt the main ones are to finish establishing a strong community strategy based on acceptance that allows us to continue to get closer to the population and to develop security strategies that are adapted to contexts of urban violence which are not comparable to those MSF normally faces in armed conflict scenarios."
Voices from the Field - 29 Jul 2015

Yemen

War Crimes and Severe Shortages

"We fear that the coalition-led offensives seeking to regain territory from the Houthis will ... inflict yet more violence on civilians caught between the warring parties and expose them to armed reprisals," says Dr Mégo Terzian, President of MSF France. "We also fear that those countries who support the coalition in its quest 'to liberate' Yemen ... will view such violence as acceptable collateral damage." Opinion - 29 Jul 2015

Mali

MSF continues its activities in Timbuktu despite insecurity

Since 2014, deteriorating security, explosive devices on roads and the risk of carjacking have forced MSF to reduce its activities in Timbuktu. In spite of all this, MSF continues to fully support three community health centres on the outskirts of Timbuktu with primary, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, immunisation and nutrition programmes. Project Update - 24 Jul 2015

South Sudan

MSF calls for urgent humanitarian access to Upper Nile state

“The continuing violence in South Sudan is forcing ordinary people to live in inhumane conditions,” says William Robertson, MSF’s program manager for South Sudan. “People are being exposed to continual violence, increased displacement, fear of attacks, disease outbreaks and the risk of starvation. MSF is deeply concerned about the continued denial of access for aid organisations to conflict areas and other remote areas of South Sudan, which is leaving people without the humanitarian assistance they urgently need.” Press Release - 23 Jul 2015

Nigeria

“Our team is working all the time, because IDPs arrive every week.”

“None of the hospitals outside of Maiduguri and Biu are currently functioning. And most of them were completely destroyed with bombs. Those that weren’t destroyed were looted,” says Dr. Faisal Ga'al, MSF project coordinator in Maiduguri. “This is now the first stage of the crisis in Borno state, but the gaps will be huge when people start going back to their homes. They will need emergency support for some time. They are going back to zero – there is no means for people to make a living in the area.” Voices from the Field - 23 Jul 2015

Tanzania

Camp for Burundi refugees ‘at breaking point’

As large numbers of refugees fleeing unrest in Burundi cross the border to neighbouring Tanzania, the overcrowded refugee camp of Nyarugusu “has reached breaking point”, according to Sita Cacioppe, emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 20 Jul 2015

Palestine

Gaza activity update - July 2015 - One year report

Gaza is regularly subjected to outbursts of violence. Most recently, Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ targeted Gaza Strip for 50 days in July and August 2014 – the deadliest and most destructive of Israel’s three wars on Gaza since 2008. Crisis Update - 16 Jul 2015

Niger

critical situation in Diffa as hunger gap and malaria season approach

The already fragile condition of the population in Diffa has recently been aggravated by the escalation of the on-going armed conflict in southern Niger. The area bordering north Nigeria is facing new waves of displaced people and refugees escaping the violence raging around Lake Chad, especially since last February when the conflict spread to Niger. Living conditions are critical, with the displaced population having little access to healthcare and safe water. Project Update - 14 Jul 2015

Majed, 27-day old new-born, arrived at MSF surgical project in Ramtha with a head injury due to an explosive barrel bomb

Jordan

Dramatic increase in Syrian patients wounded by barrel bombs at surgical project in northern Jordan

“More than 70% of wounded we receive suffer from blast injuries, and their multiple wounds tell their stories,” said Renate Sinke, Project Coordinator of MSF Ramtha Emergency Surgical Programme. Press Release - 9 Jul 2015

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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