Dr Youssouf Dembélé describes the impact of the continuous violence on people caught up in one of the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crises in recent years, in Burkina Faso. Interview - 11 Jun 2021

Naïa and her mother Martha are consulted by Simon Kudju. Most of the children come with respiratory tract infections, malaria and acute watery diarrhea.

South Sudan

MSF addresses health needs of people in remote Maruwa, South Sudan

MSF has opened a new project in the east of South Sudan, where people live scattered over long distances and where there are few health facilities Project Update - 11 Jun 2021

Ebo, 35 years old, from Cameroon inside his tent in Vathy centre.

Ebo is from Senegal and he is 35 years old. He left his home country because his life was threatened and with the hope in Europe he will be able to build a new life and be safe, but after two years in Samos camp, he is struggling to have hope.
“If I knew, I would have never come here. I’ve lost two years here doing nothing. I had hope when I arrived because Greece is a European country, the country of democracy and humanity. It was very difficult to leave, but I had hope. Now I lost it. If you’re not mentally strong, for sure, you will have psychological problems here.
I built this shelter by myself. Previously, I was sleeping inside a tent which was one meter and a half, for a whole year. I don’t eat well. I don’t sleep well. They used to give us one bottle of water per day. We have security problems because people are fighting every day about everything. We have rats, we have snakes. The smell of the trash is strong. If you combine all this, you can lose your mind.
The conditions of the camp don’t correspond to human rights. The food is bad, they give a small portion with a bit of bread. When I started eating this, I had problems with my stomach. Even taking a shower is difficult. During winter, we do not have hot water. Sometimes we stay three days without taking a shower.
Before coming here, I somewhat respected myself. But the degrading conditions make you lose the respect for yourself. The asylum procedure does not work very well. There is also discrimination and racism. Sometimes you go to the asylum office to ask for information and they talk to you very badly. They treat us without respect. I ask myself why I came here. I feel lost. I feel frustrated and bad. I regret coming here. I want to tell people who have not come here yet, to never come.
Can you imagine? I have been through all this for almost two years and then they give me a rejection? If I’m not lucky I think I’m going to commit suicide. My only dream is to leave from Samos.
For two years every day is the same. I wake up, I wash myself, I go to the WiFi to check for information and then I come back and go to sleep.
We are young, we are strong, we have different education and background, there are electricians, plumbers, constructors or stylists like myself – we want to work. Why are we here? And why they just want to take us again and put us in a cage, like animals? Nobody wants to go in the new camp.”

Greece

Greece and EU must change approach to migration as scale of people’s suffering revealed

MSF urges European leaders to end the policy of containment for migration as its harming the health and wellbeing of asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants. Press Release - 9 Jun 2021

Samos island, March 28th 2016
"A few days ago I took a photograph of Omed M.'s family, whom was asking me to publish the picture (took on Agathonisi island). His eldest son who lives in germany contacted me, very worried, asking for news from his family. He was able to make contact with his father. But the news are sad and Omed's family has been, like expected, transfered to a camp in Samos, locked away." said Guillaume Binet, the photographer.

Mediterranean migration

Constructing Crisis at Europe’s Border

Over the past five years, an entirely avoidable and predictable policy-driven humanitarian crisis has been unfolding in the Greek islands with devasting consequences for the migrants trapped there. Report - 9 Jun 2021

Bajo Chiquito is an indigenous community in the Embera Wounaan Department and is the first location where migrants arrive. With the increase in numbers of migrants through the Darién forest, this community of around 400 people has been overwhelmed at times. Migrants arrive there after 5-7 days of trekking in the dry season.

Central American migration

Robbed, raped, beaten: safe migration routes urgently needed between Colombia and Panama

Following extreme violence people are experiencing on the migration route between South and Central America, MSF calls for the creation of safe routes between Colombia and Panama Press Release - 9 Jun 2021

Dr Lia, a paediatrician, examines a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Boost hospital, Helmand's primary provincial hospital in the capital Lashkar Gah.

Afghanistan

The Continued Struggle to Access Medical Care in Afghanistan

Report - 8 Jun 2021

MSF provides drinking water in the town of Sake in order to avoid a waterborne disease's outbreak after the arrival of thousands of displaced people.

Democratic Republic of Congo

People struggling to find food, water, shelter after east DRC volcano eruption

Nearly two weeks after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, people are struggling to find food, water and shelter in the areas they're displaced. Project Update - 3 Jun 2021

Nigeria

Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates

Following violence in Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, and are now living in camps that lack water, food and shelter. Press Release - 3 Jun 2021

Burkina Faso

Conflict in Burkina Faso: when the whole day is devoted to fetching water

A severe lack of water in the Sahel desert region of northern Burkina Faso is disrupting the lives of people living under a growing armed conflict Project Update - 2 Jun 2021

Water distribution in Sake, North Kivu, DRC

Democratic Republic of Congo

Further assistance urgently needed for people following DRC volcano eruption

Half a million people are without clean drinking water following the eruption of volcano Mount Nyiragongo, in North Kivu, DRC, where MSF teams are responding, but where more assistance for people is urgently needed. Project Update - 31 May 2021

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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Conflict in Burkina Faso: “Many people are afraid to sleep at night”