Years of conflict and continual attacks on villages in Cabo Delgado province, in northeastern Mozambique, take a severe mental health toll on people, who are forced to flee. Interview - 4 Mar 2021

Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

War has now been raging in Syria for 10 years. We outline the increasing humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians over the course of the war and our efforts to respond to them. Project Update - 3 Mar 2021

Central African Republic

People, medical facilities hit during violence in southern CAR

Post-election violence in Central African Republic is continuing to have an impact on people, this time in the southern city of Bambari, when people and medical facilities were hit with bullets. Project Update - 22 Feb 2021

MSF has offered mental health consultations in the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, since 1996. In Hebron, Palestinian civilians suffer frequent abuses such as the demolition of their homes, arbitrary detention, and systematic attacks by Israeli settlers with the tacit support of the Israeli army. As well as experiencing physical injury men, women, and particularly children suffer from significant long-term mental health impacts of these routine occurrences.

The effects of the occupation of Palestinian territory are far-reaching and leave very few people untouched, with children in particular vulnerable to long-term mental health issues as a result of witnessing or suffering traumatic events. Between February and July 2019, MSF reached 8145 people with mental health services, of whom more than 60% were children.

Palestine

“In Israel, you’re 60 times more likely to have a COVID vaccine than in Palestine”

Matthias Kennes, an MSF medical adviser in the West Bank, Palestine, writes of the searing inequalities he's witnessing on COVID-19 vaccination between the occupied territory and Israel. Opinion - 22 Feb 2021

Tsgay , 35 year old woman and daughter Dalina , 4 year old temoignage:

She shared with MSF teams: “The food that we eat doesn’t contain any nutrients, but we have no option, we have to eat it in order to survive.”

“When we fled from Tigray we had some money. We used to buy sorghum from the market. Now we spent [all our money]. Now we are forced to take the wet portage and mix it with the little amount of flour we have and use it to make injera.”

Ethiopia Tigray crisis

For refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, “everyone is hungry, and everyone is tired”

More than 61,000 people, fleeing violence in Ethiopia, have registered as refugees in Sudan. Those stuck in the border town of Hamdayet are barely having their basic needs met. Project Update - 19 Feb 2021

Guinea

Five questions on the Ebola outbreak in Guinea

After authorities in Guinea declared a new outbreak of Ebola in mid-February, MSF's Anja Wolz outlines the current situation and response in five questions. Interview - 19 Feb 2021

Dr Helene Muller and registered nurse Buhle Nkomonde both worked in the MSF COVID-19 Field Hospital in Khayelitsha, in Cape Town, before coming to Mbongolwane in KwaZulu-Natal, where their COVID-19 expertise was well employed in the screening and testing tent outside the District Hospital.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Southern Africa needs the right COVID-19 vaccines, at the right price – right now

As Southern Africa struggles under a contagious variant of the coronavirus, MSF urges rich countries to share appropriate COVID-19 vaccines with those yet to vaccinate key workers. Press Release - 18 Feb 2021

Someone shows a bullet that landed on France's property in Damala, a neighbourhood parallel to the road where the fighting happened on 13 January 2021.

France Beldo, 31, was wounded during this clash between rebel groups and the national forces supported by their international allies on the outskirts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.

Another bullet is still lodged in her shoulder. France says: "We cannot stay in such violence all the time, with the sounds of guns. Fear is winning people over. We cannot go out, if we do, we are always fearful."

Central African Republic

A journey of healing in CAR amid post-electoral violence

France Beldo was hit by a stray bullet in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), which is in the midst of violence following elections. MSF teams at SICA hospital tended to her recovery. Photo Story - 9 Feb 2021

Cameroon

Healthcare in the community, by the community in Cameroon

With conflict and insecurity a feature of life in South-West Cameroon, MSF teams have found ways to ensure local communities can access medical care - by training them to give aid. Project Update - 4 Feb 2021

Members of various civil societies gathered outside the embassies of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and other countries which opposed a temporary patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines which was proposed to the World Trade Organization by South Africa and India.

Picketers stood outside embassies and handed over letters calling on these countries to support the TRIPS Waiver to allow for more drug manufacturers to have access to vaccine designs.

Access to medicines

MSF urges wealthy countries not to block COVID-19 patent waiver

MSF urges wealthy countries which are opposing a proposal to waive patent rights on COVID-19 tools not to block it and ruin its lifesaving potential for billions of people in the rest of the world. Press Release - 3 Feb 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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Displaced by violence, people in Cabo Delgado arrive in more mental than physical pain