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Najwa, 30, and her three children live in Zalingei´s looted bank. Together with thirty other displaced people from Al Hasahisa camp, she’s created an illusion of home: bank safes used as closets and bricked-up windowsills, once meant for sunlight, now holding a few tattered bags and wilted plants. 

“We are living in these conditions without a roof, and we have no food,” explains Najwa pointing at the torn sheets draped above the lobby. “But we’ve never received any assistance, not even a bar of soap. Soon the rainy season is coming, and we don’t know where to go.” 

Looted bank housing over 30 displaced people, Zalingei, Central Darfur state, Sudan.

In the city center of Zalingei, some thirty displaced people have created an illusion of a home in a looted bank by turning bank safes into closets and sealing windows with bricks. 

“We are living in these conditions without a roof, and we have no food,” explains a mother living in the bank Najwa. “But we’ve never received any assistance, not even a bar of soap. Soon the rainy season is coming, and we don’t know where to go.” 

The war in Sudan is brutal and inhuman and has created one of the world’s largest displacement crises.  In Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur, people have been forced to flee their homes – often at risk of violence or bombings – to find themselves living in deplorable conditions. Now having lived for months on end in abandoned banks, universities and other camps, people continue to survive largely cut off from humanitarian assistance, including food and water.
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IKEA Foundation supports MSF in scale-up for underreported Sudan crisis

The IKEA Foundation has provided MSF with a gift of €35 million to scale up our response to the Sudan conflict. Press Release - 17 Oct 2024
 
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Poland

MSF urges Polish authorities to retract announced suspension of right to seek asylum

The Polish authorities must change their course of action following a recent announcement planning to suspend the right to asylum. Press Release - 16 Oct 2024
 
Marie Amonise Pierre Louis (33), nurse and health promoter of Médecins Sans Frontières leads a hygiene awareness session at a mobile clinic in the National School of Fond Palmiste, Baradères. "I live in Port-au-Prince and this work has allowed me to be aware of harsh situations that exist in the countryside that I did not know before. People are very interested in the training we offer them and we always have the impression that we are teaching them something. All I wish is that they apply the principles of hygiene in their lives. "

MSF/ IKEA Foundation challenge 2024

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Agustina watches as Trisha Thadhani, MSF TB doctor, conducts a medical evaluation of her grandson Ion, at one of MSF's active case finding sites for tuberculosis on March 13, 2023 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines.
TACTiC – Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in Children

TACTiC: Test, avoid, cure TB in children - a survey of paediatric TB policies

A detailed report of our survey of policies for diagnosing and treating children with tuberculosis in 14 countries. Report - 15 Oct 2024
 
Agustina and her grandson Clark watch as Trisha Thadhani, MSF TB doctor, conducts a medical evaluation of her other grandson, Ion, at one of MSF's active case finding sites for tuberculosis on March 13, 2023 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines
TACTiC – Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in Children

Urgent action needed as governments and donors fail children with tuberculosis

Too many children with tuberculosis are neither tested nor treated, with many countries failing at the first hurdle: updating policy guidelines in line with WHO recommendations. Press Release - 15 Oct 2024
 
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Gaza-Israel war

MSF mourns and condemns the tragic killing of our colleague in northern Gaza

We are mourning the loss of our colleague, Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al Shalfouh, killed by shrapnel injuries he suffered on 8 October. Statement - 14 Oct 2024
 
MSF health promotion activities in Downtown Beirut, Aazarieh building shelter. October 2, 2024.
Lebanon

MSF urges for protection of civilians and medical staff amid Israeli bombardment in Lebanon

As airstrikes continue and without guarantees of safety for medical staff, healthcare facilities in Lebanon are closing when people need access to medical care most. Press Release - 10 Oct 2024
 
A child undergoes a MUAC screening in the ATFC at the MSF clinic in Zamzam Camp, North Darfur, a crucial step in diagnosing malnutrition.
Conflict in Sudan

Supply blockade forces MSF to stop care for 5,000 malnourished children in Sudan

At the end of September, as supplies ran low, we had to stop providing care to 5,000 malnourished children in Zamzam camp, North Darfur. Press Release - 10 Oct 2024
 
An MSF psychologist and an MSF intercultural mediator discuss an upcoming mental health session in a room at the MSF Day Care Center in Athens. In MSF's migration projects in Greece, intercultural mediators are responsible for interpreting between psychologists and patients.
Mental health

A mental health crisis among refugees and migrants in Greece

On International Mental Health Day, an MSF psychologist in Athens highlights the mental health crisis among refugees facing trauma, dangerous journeys, and uncertain asylum processes. Voices from the Field - 10 Oct 2024
 
Close-up of an MSF speakerphone during an emergency medical aid response in Samos island, Greece. MSF has been responding to requests for emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat on the island of Samos since August 2021. MSF’s emergency response has shown the high medical and humanitarian needs amongst new arrivals. During our interventions, most people we assist are exhausted and severely distressed. A lot of them are dehydrated after spending a long time, sometimes several days, in the bush without access to food and water.
Gaza-Israel war

Israeli forces pushing people from north to south Gaza will only worsen humanitarian catastrophe

Israeli evacuation orders and strikes are forcing people in northern Gaza, Palestine, to flee south as Israeli bombing and evacuations of neighbourhoods in the north are making the area unliveable. Press Release - 8 Oct 2024
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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