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The violence of the new rwandan regime 1994-1995 (PDF, 3.8 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_The_Violence_of_the_new_Rwandan_regime_1994-1995.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

Pont du Ruzizi, Bukavu. Arrivee des refugies rwandais. Les refugies attendent du cote rwandais de pouvoir traverser le point et rejoindre le Zaire ou des camions les emmeneront aux camps situes aux alentours de Bukavu.

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Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995 (PDF, 5.5 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Rwandan_Refugee_Camps_Zaire_Tanzania.pdf - 1 Jan 2004

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Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995

The 'Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire -Tanzania 1994-1995' case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas met by MSF when confronted with ‘refugee leaders” tight control over refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania. Some of those camps were transformed into rear basis from which they planned to re-conquer Rwanda and complete the genocide of Tutsi via a massive diversion of aid, violence, propaganda and threats against refugees wishing to repatriate.
Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

At the village of Biaro. The Zairian Red Cross are present (brought here by the rebels of Kabila, who want to make sure the bodies are burried as fast as possible, fearing typhus epidemic) and make a count of all the orphans: above 1000 children. They are lined up along the railway tracks.Tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, (they all come from the refugee camps of Goma and Bukavu), fleeing the Zairian rebels of Laurent- Desire Kabila, for the last 5 months, hiding in the bush, exhausted, famished, and all waiting to return home, to Rwanda, are today in the midst of a new nightmare. They had taken residence in camps in 1994, when they fled their country in fear of retribution for the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu extremists. The presence of Hutu nettled Zairian Tutsi, who joined forces with Kabila, a longtime Mobutu foe, and launched the insurgency. The fighting forced most of the Rwandan refugees to go home in Autumn 96, but about 350.000 of them have been marooned in tough eastern Zaire, fighting terrain. They are dying at an alarming rate. They need food, water ans safe passage home. But no one has made the refugees a priority. The Zairian rebels of Kabila who seized Kisangani, Zaire'sthird city, had ordered the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, who were in this region's camps, to move back south.

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The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo: 1996-1997

The ‘Hunting and killings of the Rwandan refugee in Zaire/Congo’ case study describes the constraints and dilemmas faced by Médecins Sans Frontières’ teams in 1996 and 1997 when trying to bring assistance to the Rwandan refugees in Eastern Zaire, after their camps had been attacked by rebel forces supported by the Rwandan army. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

Magburaka, Sierra Leone, October 2002
Danish anaesthetist Vibeke Brix Christensen and Ethiopian surgeon Mesfin Wondimu changes a bandage.

International Activity Report 02/03

Annual Report - 15 Jul 2003

Consultation. En plus de l'assistance medicale aux refugies salvadoriens, MSF est intervenu en Honduras pour des missions d'urgence suite a des catastrophes naturelles (cyclones, ouragans).

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Salvadoran Refugee Camps in Honduras 1988 (PDF, 2 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/VA_Salvadoran_Refugee.pdf - 1 Jan 2003

MSF Speaking Out

Salvadoran Refugee Camps In Honduras 1988

The 'Salvadoran Refugee Camps in Honduras 1988' case study describes the dilemmas regarding a public stance that was not supposed to be public. In 1988, after 8 years in the Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras, MSF decided to withdraw. MSF refused to meet the excessive, and even dangerous demands by the refugee committees, these extensions of the Salvadoran guerrilla forces that exerted a tight and violent control over the refugee camps. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2003

Meymaneh, IDP camp of XSP.
A woman is cleaning up the camp.

International Activity Report 01/02

Annual Report - 15 Jul 2002

Protesters demonstrate outside Supreme Court in Pretoria, South Africa Monday March 5. 2001 as the pharmaceutical industry faced off in court against the South Africa government in what AIDS activists say is a landmark in developing world's efforst to get cheap AIDS medication. Drug companies are suing the the government to try to overturn a 1997 law they argue would allow the health minister to arbitrarily ignore patents on medications (Christiaan Schwetz)

International Activity Report 00/01

Annual Report - 15 Jul 2001

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East Timor. Patients await treatment by a team of Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors without Borders in Dili stadium. Elderly man infront of table.

International Activity Report 99/00

Annual Report - 12 Jul 2000

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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We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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