It is essential that humanitarian assistance is provided for the 1.7 million people displaced across Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, where they face food shortages and limited healthcare. Project Update - 26 Jun 2023

Formerly lined with cacti, the roads and paths are now buried under the sand.

The food hunger season, which usually ends in April, is becoming more critical each year in the desert regions of southern Madagascar. Three consecutive years of drought have severely affected harvests and access to food, in a context now marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to a drop in seasonal employment and other sources of income. From December onwards, violent sand winds also covered part of the arable land and food used during the lean season, such as cactus fruit. As a result, the chronic food and nutrition crisis, known on the island as kéré, is hitting the inhabitants even harder.

Since the last week of March, an MSF team of medical and logistical staff has been working in the Amboasary district in the Anosy region to assess the situation and the activities the organisation could implement to help respond to the emergency. The last MSF operation in Madagascar goes back to 2017 when we supported Madagascar’s Ministry of Health to tackle an outbreak of pneumonic plague.

Climate emergency

MSF France: une feuille de route pour la réduction de notre empreinte environnementale

msf.fr - 23 Jun 2023

People cautiously keep a distance as their jerrycans wait in line at one of the few accessible water points. The long queues are often avoided due to safety concerns, as crowded areas may become targets.

Conflict in Sudan

Restrictions and insecurity obstruct vital medical care in Sudan

We are facing administrative and bureaucratic restrictions in Sudan; hampering our ability provide vital medical care for people in need in the country. Press Release - 23 Jun 2023

A view of the Zero transit site hosting dozens of families struggling to survive with very limited basic necessities like shelter, water, sanitation, and food. The conflict in Sudan, which erupted in April 2023, has caused the deaths of hundreds of people and forced more than 100,000 to flee across the border to South Sudan.

South Sudan

People fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival

As thousands of people who have fled violence in Sudan are now struggling to survive in South Sudan, we call on the medical and humanitarian community to launch an urgent response. Press Release - 22 Jun 2023

View of Rusayo displacement site, a dozen kilometers outside Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, where it is estimated that around 85.000 people found refuge

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF calls for a rapid increase in humanitarian aid for North Kivu crisis

An urgent humanitarian response must be implemented in North Kivu, DRC, as hundreds of thousands of displaced people in desperate conditions remain vulnerable to malnutrition, diseases and violence. Press Release - 21 Jun 2023

Shelter from a newly arrived refugee shelter in Nakivale camp.

Uganda

Thousands in need of assistance in Ugandan refugee settlement

Thousands of refugees fleeing violence from DRC have arrived in Nakivale settlement, Uganda, where conditions are precarious, leaving many vulnerable to hunger and diseases. Project Update - 20 Jun 2023

MSF teams in Adre hospital, Chad, respond to a major influx of Sudanese war wounded fleeing Sudan’s conflict

Conflict in Sudan

Armed groups in El Geneina must spare civilians amid intense violence

As violence intensifies in El Geneina, Sudan, MSF calls on all parties to the conflict to spare civilians and to allow humanitarian teams to access the city safely. Press Release - 19 Jun 2023

On 1 May 2023, just after completing trainings and entering Malta's search and rescue region, Geo Barents was alerted by the Alarm Phone about a boat in distress located in the international waters off Malta. The rescue operation was completed in four hours. 300 people, including 52 women and girls – three of them pregnant - and a total of 77 minors safely embarked on Geo Barents.

Mediterranean migration

The EU must not be complicit in the loss of lives at sea and in rights violations at Europe’s borders

In the wake of the tragic sinking of a boat carrying potentially as many as 750 people in the Mediterranean Sea, MSF and other organisations call on the EU to act on their search and rescue responsibilities. Press Release - 16 Jun 2023

Chad

Over 600 war-wounded Sudanese arrive in eastern Chad hospital in just three days

A hospital in eastern Chad, on the border with Sudan, has seen an exponential number of war-wounded people arriving from the conflict-affected country in just three days. MSF teams are providing emergency medical care. Press Release - 16 Jun 2023

Syria

Inadequate water and sanitation pose health threats in Syria

Displaced people in northwest Syria face the health consequences of 12 years of war and the recent earthquakes. Our teams are responding to people's needs by distributing water and hygiene kits and building latrines. Project Update - 16 Jun 2023

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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Cycles of violence leave people in Ituri cut off from food and healthcare