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Curbing rising malaria rates in Bench Sheko, Southwest Ethiopia

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in collaboration with the Zonal Health Bureau, the Regional Health Bureau and the Ministry of Health initiated an emergency response in Bench Sheko

Bench Sheko in Southwest Ethiopia is a zone highly vulnerable to malaria. Heavy rains and limitations in accessing healthcare create conditions for recurrent outbreaks of the disease. Local health facilities have faced challenges often linked to shortages of essential malaria medicines, forcing patients to travel long distances or pay for…

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People face extreme malnutrition in Sudan’s protracted crisis

MSF’s findings corroborate fears that famine has devastated people in El Fasher, which was besieged for more than 500 days

MSF teams are treating people who have fled horror in El Fasher, Sudan, and are arriving malnourished in Tawila. The malnutrition crisis in Sudan is not limited to El Fasher, with MSF teams also treating people in Blue Nile and Khartoum states. The warring parties must grant humanitarians safe and…

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hands over Ebola response activities in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

MSF remains ready to support the Congolese authorities again should the epidemic resurface

MSF teams began responding to an outbreak of Ebola in Bulape, DRC, in early September. Since the early days of the response, we have collaborated with local health authorities and WHO to bring the epidemic under control. With the last patient discharged from the Ebola treatment centre on 19 October,…

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Sudan: Civilians must be spared in El Fasher

The RSF have been attacking and besieging the area for more than 500 days, preventing food and aid from reaching starving people at all costs

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appeals for civilians' lives to be spared in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced their full take over the city is under way. People must be allowed to flee to safer areas. Given the ethnic-based violence spiking across Darfur for…

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People's health is direly impacted by poor living conditions in Gaza despite ceasefire

“Malnutrition, inadequate sanitation, and poor living conditions are taking a devastating toll on people’s health

More than one million people are still being forced to survive on a tiny patch of land, and in dangerous living conditions, in southern Gaza, Palestine. This displacement, along with the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and the health system by Israeli forces, is creating the perfect storm for disease and illness to spread,…

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Médecins sans frontières (MSF) scales up medical response in Mueda as thousands are displaced again in northern Mozambique

More than 92,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Cabo Delgado and the neighbouring Nampula province since late September

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has scaled up activities in Mueda town, Mozambique and the district following yet another wave of displacement after repeated violent incursions of a non-state armed group in Mocímboa da Praia and other areas of northern Mozambique. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 92,000…

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Comprehensive treatment for serious mental health conditions is possible in South Sudan

Between January and August 2025, MSF provided mental health consultations to 1,130 individuals in Malakal, which included 761 women (67%) and 369 men (33%)

“I knew I was unwell, but not a criminal,” says Samat Nyuk, a patient recovering from a mental health condition in Malakal, South Sudan. “I needed support, not punishment. What hurt the most was that my own family chose prison for me instead of treatment.” Samat was sent to prison by his family…

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Violence in Cabo Delgado sparks new wave of mass displacement as needs surge

To help meet critical needs, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched an emergency response in two temporary resettlement centres

Recent attacks by a non-state armed group have displaced 50,000 people in Mozambique's Cabo Delgdo province. MSF launched an emergency response on 31 July to provide people with general healthcare, mental health services, and water and sanitation services. More support is needed for people in Cabo Delgado, who experience repeated…

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Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspends activities at Zalingei hospital following armed attack that left one dead and five injured

Tensions between the groups accompanying the patients escalated inside the facility, and at 10pm, a hand grenade was detonated in front of the emergency room, killing one person

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to reduce its teams and suspend all activities at MSF supported hospital in Central Darfur state, Sudan, following a violent armed assault inside the facility on the night of 16 August. The attack left one person dead, and injured five others, including a…

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Somalia: How Funding Gaps and Barriers Undermine Healthcare for Women and Children

The suspension of USAID funding has led to the closure of at least 37 health and nutrition sites in both rural and urban areas around Baidoa

When Aisha* began haemorrhaging, experiencing heavy, potentially life-threatening bleeding, just ten days after giving birth to twins at home in Diinsoor district, her family feared the worst. The hospital where she had safely delivered her previous children was no longer operational. With limited healthcare available in their community, her husband…