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Other health emergencies must not be neglected in eastern DRC

While the response to Ebola disease continues in Democratic Republic Congo, other health emergencies such as cholera, measles, malaria, and violence linked to ongoing conflict, must not be neglected. Project Update - 14 Aug 2026

An MSF water truck provides a critical source of clean drinking water. Despite producing around 500,000 litres daily, it is enough for only 80,000 people to receive the bare minimum.

Gaza-Israel war

Israel puts thousands at risk by blocking crucial supplies for healthcare in Gaza

Israel are putting thousands of people at risk in Gaza, Palestine, by blocking crucial supplies for healthcare and hygiene, including engine oil and spare parts. Press Release - 12 Aug 2026

A 25 year old lady sets fire outside her tent in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, February 2, 2013. photo by Kaung Htet

MSF Speaking Out

Podcast: MSF and the Rohingya 1992-2014

This podcast is adapted from the MSF Speaking Out Case Study “MSF and the Rohingya 1992–2014”.
It brings to light two decades of MSF advocacy activities as part of its humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya people in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
It examines the challenges that MSF teams in the field and headquarters encountered when deciding whether and how MSF could publicly speak out about the plight of the Rohingya facing persecutions and violence in Myanmar and Bangladesh. During the 1992-2014 period, MSF worked mostly through diplomatic channels “behind closed doors” to advocate about the Rohingya’s plight with foreign diplomats and United Nations agencies. This “silent advocacy” was challenged within MSF by those who felt that the lack of public speaking out meant MSF was abandoning a persecuted population. They considered that maintaining an operational presence without speaking out publicly was not an ethically justifiable option for an independent and impartial humanitarian organisation like MSF.
Over 7 episodes, the podcast explores the challenges, dilemmas and internal disagreements underlying MSF’s humanitarian response to assist the Rohingya under the Myanmar authoritarian regime.
- 11 Aug 2026

Children admitted for severe acute malnutrition receive inpatient care in the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre (ITFC) at MSF-supported Bay Regional Hospital, Baidoa, Southwest State, Somalia.

Somalia

Survey of displaced families in Baidoa finds every second child malnourished

A recent MSF survey finds shocking levels of malnutrition among children in displacement sites in Baidoa, Somalia. Press Release - 11 Aug 2026

Shali,Russian tank, next to the market.
After the reelection of Kadyrov, for people inside the Chechen republic aswell as in neighboring Ingushetia the situation has not improved, Kadyrov is seen as a Russian marionet who betrayed the Chechens, his army is rudeless and has no interest in protecting the population.
In ingushetia the refugees from Chechnya are forced out of their tents,just before winter fall's, back into Chechnya where they claim to have the situation under control.
Living conditions in and around Chechnya are inhuman after almost a decade of war and destruction.
People inside Chechnya are terrorized as well by the Russian occupation as the Kadirov army in a daily and structural way and the disappearance and execution of people are more rules than exception.
The Chechen fighters are divided and not able to finance the war, if they have the money they buy their weapons from the Russian enemy who are underpaid for their services.

For the Chechens who fled their country during the war the situation is almost as bad, mostly ending up in neighboring Ingushetia, living in camps with little or no facilities in tents who fall apart after the strong winters and even in stables normally used for animals.
Since also drug smugglers and criminals fled Chechnya, an increasing number of the refugees become drug addicted.

Most NGO's working in Ingushetia can not enter Chechnya to do their important work as the risk of being kidnapped is too high and Russian government is not supporting in any way.

MSF Speaking Out

Podcast: War Crimes and Politics of Terror in Chechnya 1994–2004

This podcast is adapted from the case study “War Crimes and Politics of Terror in Chechnya, 1994-2004”. Over 9 episodes, it explores the challenges and dilemmas MSF faced during the two wars in Chechnya between 1994 and 2004. These wars raised many questions for MSF on when and how the organisation should speak out publicly about the war crimes its staff witness and the chilling effects of the politics of terror on the Chechen people.
Through MSF press releases, internal reports, speeches, and news articles of the time as well as eyewitness testimonies from MSF staff, this podcast series examines the challenges MSF faced when access to those in need was repeatedly blocked by the Russian authorities, forcing international staff to operate and train Caucasus teams at a distance. Later on, when staff members were kidnapped, MSF was confronted with a new dilemma - whether to raise a voice or lay low until their colleagues were released? - 11 Aug 2026

Refugies Rwandais a Tingi Tingi. A partir du mois de septembre 1996, un mouvement rebelle, soutenu par le Rwanda et l’Ouganda, emerge dans le Kivu, region frontaliere de ces deux pays. En octobre et novembre 1996, les troupes rebelles attaquent les camps de refugies rwandais et burundais situes le long de la frontiere du Zaire, provoquant le retour d’une partie d’entre eux vers le Rwanda (entre 400 et 500.000 refugies) et le Burundi (environ 60.000 refugies). Les refugies rwandais, encadres et otages des ex-FAR et interhamwes comme dans les les camps sur la frontiere, sont disperses, pourchasses, perdus dans la foret zairoise. Debut decembre 1996, su l’axe routier Kisangani-Bukavu, un groupe de 80.000 refugies se regroupe sur le site de Tingi-Tingi, un autre groupe de 20 a 25.000 est localise a Amissi. MSF intervient sur le camp de Tingi Tingi en mettant en place les structures medicales permettant de prendre en charge les pathologies les plus graves (malaria, diarrhee, malnutrition): hopital, centre d’isolement, CNT e CNS, approvisionnement en eau.

MSF Speaking Out

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

This podcast is adapted from the case study “The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo 1996-1997". In 8 episodes, it investigates MSF's experience in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide, and in particular, with the impact on local populations and refugees living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
The series expresses on the constraints, questions, and dilemmas faced by MSF teams attempting to bring relief to Rwandan refugees and local populations. - 11 Aug 2026

Vue aérienne du centre de traitement Ebola Elykia, à Bunia, dans la province de l'Ituri, en RDC

Aerial view of the Elykia Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, in Ituri Province, DRC

DRC Ebola outbreaks

Three questions about the new clinical trial for the Ebola disease outbreak in DRC

Dr Kasita, a physician caring for Ebola patients in Democratic Republic of Congo, answers questions about the new clinical trial for the Ebola disease outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. Interview - 11 Aug 2026

July 1995

Tuzla: Refugees from the Srebrenica enclave (women, children and elderly), just one day after it's fall.

Juillet 1995

Tuzla: Arriv e des r fugiers (femmes , enfants et vieillards) de l'enclave de Srebrenica le lendemain de sa chute.

MSF Speaking Out

Podcast: MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003

This podcast series is adapted from the MSF and Srebrenica 1993-2003 case study. 5 episodes examine the speaking out constraints, questions, and dilemmas faced by MSF teams in Srebrenica. MSF was present in the enclave since the beginning of its siege by the Bosnian Serb forces in 1993 until it fell in July 1995. During the fall, thousands of Bosnian Muslims were massacred. These massacres were qualified by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as genocide in 2004. - 10 Aug 2026

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.

Haiti

Haiti: MSF forced once again to suspend operations at the Isaïe Jeanty Maternity hospital amid violence

MSF teams in Port au Prince, Haiti, were once again forced to suspend operations at Isaïe Jeanty Maternity hospital on 7 August. Statement - 9 Aug 2026

Our Health Promotion colleagues are ready for their first day of work after the Dengue Project launch event in Tegucigalpa.

Honduras

MSF launches dengue project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

MSF has launched a project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, which aims to strengthen the early detection of dengue cases, ensure treatment, and establish epidemiological surveillance systems. Project Update - 6 Aug 2026

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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