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#DoctorsofAleppo: "There have been killings on a daily basis"

Syria and Russia have been conducting a bombing campaign against east Aleppo since the end of September, which has resulted in more than 1,600 war wounded.
Videos and Photos - 17 Oct 2016

Latest attacks on east Aleppo hospitals leave medical care in tatters

Airstrikes by Syrian and Russian forces have hit four hospitals in besieged east Aleppo in the past 24 hours, causing huge damage to one of them and injuring at least two doctors. The bombings also destroyed an ambulance and killed its driver.
Latest News - 16 Oct 2016

MSF Al-Nasr supported hospital - Al-Dhale,Yemen

Yemen: "Indescribable health situation"

Hassan Boucenine, has just returned from Yemen where he was Head of Mission for a year and a half.
- 14 Oct 2016

Cholera

Dadaab to Somalia: Pushed back into peril

October 2016 marks 25 years of the existence of the Dadaab camps in north-eastern Kenya. Established in 1991 when conflicts in neighbouring Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia forced thousands to flee to Kenya, the camps have swelled to far more than their capacity over the last quarter of a century. Today, 261,000 people, the majority Somalis, call Dadaab home. Consisting of five camps, it is still today the world’s largest refugee camp complex.
Briefing Document - 13 Oct 2016

Cholera

Dadaab to Somalia: Forced Back Into Danger

The closure of the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab in northern Kenya draws near. MSF is sending an urgent call to the Kenyan government to consider alternative and long term solutions in resolving this issue rather than sending hundreds of thousands of Somalis back into the peril of the war-ravaged country they fled from.
Videos and Photos - 13 Oct 2016

"He threw me the baby" - Refugees fight to survive sea crossing

A boat full of refugees trying to get to Europe is capsizing in the Mediterranean and a couple is trapped inside. They give their baby to a young relative who makes a brave decision to throw the baby to MSF rescuers.
Videos and Photos - 13 Oct 2016

HIV/Aids

Dadaab, Kenya: Return of refugees to Somalia ‘inhumane and irresponsible’

As the announced closure of the world’s largest refugee camp draws closer, and thousands begin the return to war-ravaged Somalia, MSF is calling for other alternatives to be urgently considered by the Government of Kenya and the UNHCR, supported by donor countries.

Latest News - 13 Oct 2016