MSF condemns airstrikes on a wedding party in Hajjah

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 63 casualties in a hospital it supports in Hajjah, following a series of night-time airstrikes by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition on a wedding party that took place in a remote, impoverished village in Bani Qays district in Yemen, on Sunday 22 April. Press Release - 25 Apr 2018

In Alqsa Hospital, MSF team of surgeon, anesthesiologist and OT nurse, support the team of the local hospital with the massive influx of injured due to gunshots

Palestine

MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries

Since 1 April, MSF teams in Gaza, Palestine, have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. Project Update - 19 Apr 2018

Churches and religious service are an important opportunity for the community to come together and share in their experiences. People can better come together with their issues when they do so in a collective manner.

South Sudan

The mounting mental health toll in Upper Nile State

The Malakal Protection of Civilian site (PoC) was created at the beginning of 2014 to offer temporary protection to the population of the area who were caught up in fighting in South Sudan's Upper Nile region. But four years on, the difficult living conditions, the loss of hope, feelings of enclosure, as well as limited livelihood opportunities have had an effect on the mental health of those who are trapped inside. Voices from the Field - 17 Apr 2018

Syria

Zero point – displaced from East Ghouta and in need of treatment

Close to 60,000 people have been displaced from East Ghouta to northwest Syria in the space of just a month. A significant number of these men, women and children are injured or sick and in need of medical care. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) participated in the medical response. MSF supports the main hospital in charge of triaging and treating these patients at a location known as “zero point”, where the new arrivals descend from buses. Refaat Al Obed, the hospital’s Medical Director, describes the situation. Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2018

On the evening of April 10th, patients flocked to the MSF Sica hospital in Bangui following the resumption in the afternoon of the operation of MINUSCA and Central African security forces in PK5 district in Bangui on the 10th. April against local armed groups, which gave rise to fighting.

Le 10 avril en soirée, les patients ont afflué à l'hôpital MSF Sica de Bangui suite à la reprise dans l'après-midi de l'opération de la MINUSCA et des forces de sécurité centrafricaine dans le quartier de PK5 à Bangui le 10 avril contre des groupes armés locaux, qui a donné lieu à des combats.

Central African Republic

Four things to know about the conflict in the Central African Republic

Ongoing war has resulted in a protracted humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR), creating severe health needs among the population. Voices from the Field - 10 Apr 2018

Rwanda

Remembering the genocide more than 20 years on

More than two decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan fieldworkers tell us about the experiences that motivated them to join MSF. Project Update - 6 Apr 2018

Reconstructive plastic surgery program, Gaza, Dar Al Salam hospital.

Palestine

MSF increases medical efforts for wounded in Gaza strip

The number of patients with trauma injuries had risen to 20 per week while it was 20 per month before November 2017. Press Release - 5 Apr 2018

Areti, 37-years-old from a village called Joo (Mahagoi) in Ituri province
Areiti and six of her children have been in Mara Tatu camp in Uganda since February 2018. They are among the 57,000 people who have fled massacres in Ituri since mid-December 2017 for Uganda, crossing Lake Albert by boat.

For her, the pain of exile is exacerbated by the fact that the violence separated her from her husband and one of her children. They hope to be reunited, though as the killings rage on in DRC, it is hard for her loved ones to find an escape route.

For now, she and her six children live in hope that their family will be whole again, as they try to forget the horrific scenes they witnessed.

Democratic Republic of Congo

The daily struggles of Ituri’s refugees

The attackers wore masks and used axes, machetes and guns to slaughter civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s strife-torn Ituri province. Voices from the Field - 5 Apr 2018

Yemen

Yemen: A timeline of more than three years of war

A timeline of more than three years of war Project Update - 4 Apr 2018

Raqqa, the west side of the city. A woman looks at what was her home once and now turned into rubble due to the Raqqa offensives.

Syria

Raqqa - The hidden deadly threat

"Raqqa is devastated and many homes and public places were, and still are, littered with improvised explosive devices and unexploded munitions." Photo Story - 4 Apr 2018

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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