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Wire fence on the Polish-Belarusian Border. Krynki, Podlaskie region, Poland.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Poland-Belarus border crisis: “We don’t want people to die in the forest”

As aid organisations are prohibited from accessing people stuck in extreme conditions at the Poland-Belarus border, we hear from the Polish civil society helping those trapped in the forest. Voices from the Field - 3 Feb 2022

In front of the health promoters' tent. Every Thursday, health promotion teams organise activities to help mothers and Children to cope with their situation. This Thursday, health promoters organised cooking workshop in order to create a collective moment preparing Moringa and Tourteau mind laugh and singing.

Niger

Working with the community to counter malaria and malnutrition

In 2018, 850 children were arriving at our paediatric ward in southern Niger every week, but with a new community-led approach to combat malaria and malnutrition, hospitalisations have dropped. Project Update - 3 Feb 2022

A group of migrants and refugees gathered together in a shared dwelling in Libya in August 2021.
One of them has mobility problems, which prevents him from working.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Italy-Libya agreement: Five years of EU-sponsored abuse in Libya and the central Mediterranean

We urge the Italian government and EU to end all support for the system of returning migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to Libya and detaining them there. Project Update - 2 Feb 2022

Jordan

MSF brings down the curtain on one of its largest interventions in the country

After nearly 10 years of responding to the myriad needs of Syrian refugees, from non-communicable diseases and war trauma surgery to COVID-19, we end our intervention in north Jordan. Project Update - 31 Jan 2022

Salamata, has been living for more than two years with her husband, children and nearly 2,000 other people in the camp at the edge of the town of Barsalogho, north central region, Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso

Four things to know about the crisis in Burkina Faso

With months of violent tension in Burkina Faso culminating in military takeover on Monday 24 January, people are paying the price - here are four key things to know about the current crisis. Project Update - 28 Jan 2022

Children sit outside their tent in Al-Khuseif camp for internally displaced people in Marib. Ten siblings live with their mother and father in a small tent after being displaced from Ibb governorate due to the conflict. They do not have bathroom or a kitchen with their tent. [Their father is Ali Qaid. See linked photos.]

Yemen

Thousands desperate for food, water and shelter in conflict-hit Marib

As a seven-year-conflict continues to ravage Yemen, thousands of people have been displaced multiple times throughout the country, and now find themselves without food, water or shelter. Project Update - 27 Jan 2022

MSF ambulance car for the referrals from Rokero health centre to Al-Fasher hospital. A six hour drive

Sudan

“Unacceptable” detention of MSF medical team in Khartoum

MSF staff have been released from detention in Sudan, where they were held overnight at Khartoum police station without justification. Statement - 26 Jan 2022

Mediterranean migration

Hundreds of people require port of safety after multiple rescues from Central Mediterranean

MSF teams have rescued over 400 people who have fled horrendous conditions in Libya and risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety. Project Update - 25 Jan 2022

MSF stretcher bearers in the hospital after installing a patient inside the ambulance for referral. MSF supports a referral system between its supported hospitals in Ibb and Taiz governorate. MSF also supports a referral system in other governorates such as Aden, Abyan, Lahj, Amran, Sa’ada and Hajja.

Yemen

‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds

An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa'ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Press Release - 22 Jan 2022

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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