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Francisca with a portrait of her late son, who died six years ago.
Colombia

Violence in Buenaventura

Photo Story - 16 Aug 2017
 
A refugee in the Cacanda camp shows the traumatic injury caused during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). MSF provides mental health services for refugees in need, many of whom are direct witnesses or victims of the violence.
Democratic Republic of Congo

In Kasai, “even the birds had stopped singing”

"The wounds of the patients that we treat tell us about the extreme levels of violence that the people of Kasai are facing." Voices from the Field - 16 Aug 2017
 
Francisca with a portrait of her late son, who died six years ago.
Colombia

People suffer high levels of violence despite peace process

"These types of violence are having a clear impact on the physical and mental health of people living in Buenaventura and Tumaco.” Report - 16 Aug 2017
 
People disembark the Vos Prudence in Trapani, Italy, following the rescue of 412 people from a wooden boat and 318 from a rubber boat  in the Central Mediterranean by MSF staff and ship's crew.
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Saving Lives at Sea

Interactive map, charts and data about MSF's search and rescue activities in the Mediterranean searchandrescue.msf.org
 
People disembark the Vos Prudence in Trapani, Italy, following the rescue of 412 people from a wooden boat and 318 from a rubber boat  in the Central Mediterranean by MSF staff and ship's crew.
Mediterranean migration

MSF launches new website on search and rescue work

The website contains interactive infographics, in-depth, up-to-date operational and medical information, and answers all frequently asked and important questions related to SAR. Voices from the Field - 15 Aug 2017
 
Lifejackets are distributed to 129 people in a rubber boat by an MSF rib in international waters off the coast of Libya, on June 8, 2017. MSF rescue vessel Vos Prudence rescued a total of 726 people from the Mediterranean Sea over 2 days on June 8th and 9th, including 52 children.
Mediterranean migration

Hindrance of humanitarian assistance will create a deadly gap in the Mediterranean Sea

MSF has decided to temporarily suspend the search and rescue activity of its ship, Prudence. Statement - 12 Aug 2017
 
Ummi, 4 years old, was treated for Hepatitis E at MSF's hospital in Ngala.
Nigeria

“People are dying of hepatitis E because they don’t have soap or clean water”

Hundreds of people in a camp in northeastern Nigeria have been infected with hepatitis E after the disease spread from neighbouring Niger. The highly contagious disease has spread quickly through Ngala camp. Project Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
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10,000 people displaced by the fighting that erupted last week in Batangafo (north of Central African Republic) are still sheltering in the compound of the hospital managed by MSF. The teams there have tried to improve water provision, sanitation and hygiene conditions. The displaced people were forced out of the camp in which they were sheltering after it was looted and burned down during the fighting. 
The hospital is considered just one of a handful of “safe spaces” left in Batangafo. MSF calls on those organisations responsible to facilitate the necessary conditions to ensure the safe return of the people to the camp. 11 people  died, and nine wounded individuals were treated by MSF teams. 

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Alrededor de diez mil personas, desplazadas por los violentos enfrentamientos de la semana pasada en Batangafo, (en el norte de la República Centroafricana), siguen refugiadas en el recinto del hospital de la ciudad, gestionado por MSF. Los equipos están tratando de mejorar las condiciones de higiene y provisión de agua y saneamiento en la zona. La comunidad tuvo que huir del campo de desplazados en el que se refugiaban debido a la violencia. Buena parte del campo fue saqueado y posteriormente incendiado. 

El hospital es considerado como uno de los escasos lugares seguros en Batangafo: MSF hace un llamamiento para que se faciliten las condiciones necesarias para el retorno con seguridad de los refugiados en el recinto hospitalario al campo de desplazados.
Central African Republic

10,000 people sleep in Batangafo hospital after camp is looted and burned

Batangafo has once again been plunged into chaos, with a wave of killings and lootings. A number of aid organisations were robbed. Project Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
A general view of the hospital compound.
Due to the ongoing insecurity, most of the eastern countryside of Borno state where these large displacements are happening remains difficult to reach for humanitarian organisations, with the exception of a few towns. Most of the aid agencies working in the state are present in the capital, Maiduguri, but only a few are able to operate continually in the hard-to-reach areas where assistance is most needed.
Nigeria

Crisis Update - July 2017

Hundreds of thousands of people remain almost entirely dependent on aid for their survival.
Crisis Update - 10 Aug 2017
 
July 2017 - Syria - Kurdish province - Aïn Issa Displaced Camp. MSF Clinic. A young Syrian, displaced from Raqqa, was (according to his family) burned in a boiling oil accident when he was at home.

Juillet 2017 - Syrie - Province kurde - Camp de déplacés d'Aïn Issa. Clinique MSF. Un jeune Syrien, déplacé de Raqqa, brûlé (selon sa famille) avec de l'huile bouillante dans un accident domestique, alors qu'il était chez lui.
Syria

The silent war

“He was playing with a battery that he found in the garden. Unfortunately it turned out to be an explosive device and it exploded.” Voices from the Field - 8 Aug 2017
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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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