Caring for refugees and displaced people amid deteriorating security

While challenged with the deteriorating security situation, MSF continues to provide medical, nutritional and psychosocial assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur. MSF teams are witnessing an increase in attacks and looting of villages close to the border. Many people have been wounded and thousands have been forced onto the roads. Some have had to flee a second time and are living, once more, in a precarious situation as the violence extends its reach in the region. Project Update - 23 Nov 2006

Chad

Displaced people forced to flee again in region gripped by sharp rise in violence

Interview with Filipe Ribeiro, the French section's head of mission in Chad.
MSF is concerned about the fate of 5,000 displaced Chadians who fled an attack on the Koloye site, in the eastern part of the country, and have disappeared in the area even as violence expands in the region. That number included 37 MSF employees. We had no information about them. We have since learned that some of displaced persons fled to Adé and Kumu, two villages further north, accompanied by the populations of neighboring villages. We still have no information on four of the 37 members of our team. Voices from the Field - 22 Nov 2006

Chad

Thousands displaced after fresh violence hits villages in southeast Chad

The attacks took place relatively deep inside Chad, about 80 km (50 miles) from the border with Sudan. Project Update - 21 Nov 2006

Sudan

A crisis of human suffering

The situation has certainly changed since I was in Darfur over two years ago... Today MSF has had to reduce its activities due to intensified fighting and mounting insecurity throughout Darfur.
An interview with MSF International Council President, Dr. Rowan Gillies. Project Update - 14 Nov 2006

Pakistan

One year after the earthquake in Kashmir: Interview with national staff member, Sajjad Hussein Khan, Assistant Administrator in Bagh

"The first priority was to transport injured people to Rawalpindi or Islamabad to receive adequate treatment, given that the Bagh hospital had collapsed and was completely destroyed. Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2006

Pakistan

Interview with national staff, Samran Afzal Emanuel, Supply Officer in Islamabad

"I joined MSF just a few days after the earthquake, on October 22, 2005, as a supply officer. At that time MSF was fully involved in their struggle to save the dying population." Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2006

Sudan

In the Darfur trap

"We have very limited access to the north of Darfur. So we don't even know what kind of state the people in some areas are in, whether they have access to water, health or food. Neither the government nor the different rebel groups give us the access we need; we are targeted from all corners. There is no question that we are unable to function as we would like," concludes Jean Sebastien Matte. Project Update - 11 Sep 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

Katanga's displaced face hunger and neglect

Project Update - 24 Aug 2006

Lebanon

Escalating violence prevents humanitarian aid from reaching the most needy in Lebanon

Supplies are still arriving from Europe into neighbouring countries where supply bases have been set up. So far, 230 tons of material have arrived in Beirut, but it still needs to reach the different areas where MSF teams are working. Project Update - 11 Aug 2006

Lebanon

Displaced people become focus of MSF concern in Lebanon

MSF has been in Saida since the weekend, (Aug 22-23). The five hospitals in that city do not appear to be overcrowded but they need medications for chronic diseases. Project Update - 26 Jul 2006

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