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MSF teams witness destruction and despair of the second Nepal earthquake while assessing needs in remote areas

Team witnessed villages being destroyed by the earthquake and landslides. Dolakha district was the epicenter of yesterday’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the second one to strike Nepal in two weeks. Crisis Update - 13 May 2015

Nigeria

1200 Nigerian refugees flee fighting in Lake Chad and return to Nigeria

MSF provides assistance to Nigerian returnees fleeing Niger Crisis Update - 12 May 2015

Nepal

Second earthquake near Kathmandhu

Crisis Update - 12 May 2015

More about Meningitis

Meningococcal meningitis is a highly contagious bacterial form of meningitis – a serious inflammation of the meninges, the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Project Update - 11 May 2015

A patient affected by meningitis is cared by an MSF doctor Clement Van Galen.

Niger

Meningitis in Niger: 100 people hospitalised in critical condition every day in Niamey

MSF steps up its activities to tackle the epidemic Voices from the Field - 11 May 2015

MSF supports the hospital in the town of Haradh . Al Mazraq Camp was hit by an airstrike on March 30th. At least 34 people wounded in the attack were brought by ambulance to the MSF-supported hospital in Haradh (in the photo). Twenty-nine people were dead on arrival, among them women and children. Roughly 500 new families had arrived in the camp over the last two days, escaping bombings in the western area of Saada. Al Mazraq Camp was established in 2009, when thousands of people fled fighting between government troops and Houthi forces in Saada Governorate.

Yemen

First person account from Saada under bombardment

An MSF team spent last night in the city of Saada under intense bombing from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia. On Friday night the coalition gave an ultimatum to the population to leave the city and its surrounding area, as the whole province in the North of the country would become a military target. Voices from the Field - 9 May 2015

Mothers and their children sit in the waiting area of the ambulatory therapeutic feeding centre (ATFC) in MSF’s hospital in Leer, Unity state, South Sudan. The nutritional situation in Leer is shocking. When the conflict tore through the town in late January/early February, stocks of food were looted and people’s houses razed to the ground. The MSF hospital in Leer was, in effect, destroyed, and the MSF teams were forced to evacuate. As people fled into the bush, they survived on little but lily roots and whatever else could be scavenged. Since then, the ongoing fighting has made it difficult for people to plant crops. The MSF hospital re-opened at the beginning of May 2014 and as of Friday, 13th June 2014, 1,713 children were enrolled in MSF’s ATFC in Leer, with 15 severely malnourished children admitted into the intensive therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC).

South Sudan

MSF calls on warring parties to respect medical facilities in South Sudan as the humanitarian organization is forced to evacuate staff again

MSF is gravely concerned about an imminent attack on the town of Leer in South Sudan, and the potential impact on civilians and medical facilities. Press Release - 9 May 2015

Preparations on the MSF ship for the Search and Rescue operation in Augusta port.

Mediterranean migration

MSF reinforces its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean

The Bourbon Argos will provide additional search and rescue support in the Mediterranean, in parallel with the MY Phoenix. Project Update - 9 May 2015

Yemen

MSF statement in response to latest coalition offensive

"The bombing of civilian targets, with or without warning, is a serious violation of international humanitarian law. It is even more serious to target a whole province." Statement - 8 May 2015

Niger

“People are in need of food, water, shelter… the basics”

Interview with Abdalla Hussein, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Diffa, Niger Voices from the Field - 8 May 2015

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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