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

A COVID-19 patient receiving oxygen therapy while admitted at the MSF run inpatient ward of the Al-Shifaa 13 COVID-19 ward in Al-Kindi Hospital, Baghdad. MSF nurses checking up on the condition of the patient and giving instructions to the caretaker about how to support the patient -her mother- and assist her.

Iraq

The restless challenge of tackling COVID-19 in Iraq

Iraq's overwhelmed healthcare system remains fragile as COVID-19 continues to threaten the most vulnerable people in the country. Project Update - 21 Jan 2022

View of Rhoe Internally displaced people camp at sunset.
As a result of successive attacks in the region, more than 40,000 additional people have been forced to take refuge in the Rhoe site in 2 months, bringing its population to more than 65,000 displaced.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of people in precarious conditions as violence set to repeat in Ituri

As cycles of violence return to Ituri province, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes and are living in precarious and dangerous conditions in displacement camps. Project Update - 19 Jan 2022

Brgy. New Nazareth, Basilisa, Dinagat Islands: Many villages along the coastal areas were hit by the typhoon, leaving damaged building and boats, and many without roofs over their heads.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assistance to communities on the remote islands of Dinagat, Siargao and other outlying areas, some of the worst affected by Typhoon Rai (local name: Odette), which struck the Philippines in December 2021 causing hundreds of casualties.

Philippines

MSF launches response after Typhoon Rai leaves hundreds of casualties in its wake

After Typhoon Rai battered the Philippines in December, leaving hundreds of casualties, our teams have begun medical and humanitarian activities in the worst-affected regions. Project Update - 18 Jan 2022

MSF translator Tedros gives instructions to women waiting with their children for a medical consultation at a mobile clinic in the village of Adiftaw, in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray.

Ethiopia

Six months on, still no responsibility established for the killing of María, Tedros and Yohannes in Tigray

Six months after the murder of our three colleagues Maria, Tedros and Yohannes in Tigray, Ethiopia, the full circumstances of, and responsibility for, their killing remains unclear. Interview - 13 Jan 2022

A man drags a tarpaulin raft through the flood in Rubkona, Unity State.

Across Unity state people’s homes and livelihoods (crops and cattle), as well as health facilities, schools, and markets, are completely submerged by floodwaters.

South Sudan

Hundreds of thousands of people in dire conditions months after floods

In South Sudan, over 800,000 people have been directly affected by flooding, which has left them in precarious conditions, vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. Project Update - 7 Jan 2022

Much of the local economy depends on the rearing of livestock such as cows, goats and camels. Because of a lack of rain and a very bad harvest this year, it has become difficult for famers to feed their animals. Some have taken their cattle south to find pastures, or to sell their animals.

Chad

“If the rain abandons us again, we don’t know what we will do”

In Chad, malnutrition has become a chronic crisis, due to multiple causes, including poor harvests - linked to climate change - inadequate dietary choices as well as socio-cultural factors. Project Update - 6 Jan 2022

Forest in Podlaskie region, Poland. In the end of December temperatures dropped to -11 degrees ˚C.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF leaves Polish border after being blocked from assisting people

Without permission to assist people in need on the Polish border, we have regrettably withdrawn teams from the area. Press Release - 6 Jan 2022

Chad

Tens of thousands of people flee Cameroon as violence spreads

As violence spreads on the Cameroonian border, thousands of people have fled to Chad where our teams respond to the needs of people caught in precarious conditions. Project Update - 4 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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Hundreds of people require port of safety after multiple rescues from Central Mediterranean