News updates

NEWS : 29 January 2008

DRC : Cholera spreads in several cities in Katanga

Disease of the poor strikes at the heart of country’s richest city. Cholera hotspots are multiplying in several cities of Katanga, a mining province in the southwest of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Lubumbashi and...[more]

 

NEWS : 28 January 2008

Three MSF aid workers killed in serious incident in Kismayo, Somalia

It is with great sadness that we confirm that this morning three staff from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were killed in the Somali town of Kismayo, not far from the hospital where MSF works.

The victims are a Kenyan doctor, a...[more]

 

NEWS : 28 January 2008

MSF aid workers involved in serious incident in Kismayo, Somalia

This morning there has been a serious car incident involving several staff members from the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The incident occurred in the Somali town of Kismayo. There are...[more]

 

NEWS : 28 January 2008

Gaza : MSF on emergency alert

Since Wednesday’s explosion destroyed approximately two-thirds of the metal wall separating Egypt and the Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have crossed the border to shop in Egyptian stores and escape the current...[more]

 

NEWS : 25 January 2008

Laos: Cholera in Sekong province

A cholera epidemic has been in effect in Sekong province, in southern Laos, since mid-December 2007. Two districts are affected: Thataeng and Lamarm. Sekong is one of the [more]

 

NEWS : 24 January 2008

Kenya: No peace, no medicines

On top of the violence that has been raging in the post-elections crisis in Kenya, there is an issue of great concern for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): HIV and tuberculosis (TB) patients who have failed to show up for their...[more]

 

NEWS : 24 January 2008

Blockade of the Gaza Strip

The tightened blockade in recent days has sharply restricted resupplying activities in the Gaza Strip. MSF teams are continuing aid activities on site, but concerned about shortages of medicine, problems with hospital services...[more]

 

NEWS : 23 January 2008

Severe and indiscriminate violence in Nairobi slums

In response to the violence which has hit Nairobi in the last few days, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided care to wounded people in health centres located in Mathare and Kibera slums as well as in referral hospitals....[more]

 

NEWS : 21 January 2008

Kenya : Update on MSF activities

As protests continue throughout Kenya, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding to the additional needs created by the violence of recent weeks. In Nairobi, where MSF has provided HIV/AIDS and TB care in the slums for...[more]

 

NEWS : 18 January 2008

MSF treats new wounded in Nairobi

Over the past two days, 34 wounded have been treated in Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) medical health posts in Nairobi's Mathare and Kibera slums. Among these patients, eight suffered from bullet wounds. Several wounded have...[more]

 

NEWS : 14 January 2008

Kenya: "The machete wounds have caused near amputations"

Surgeon Gary Myers is working in the hospital in Eldoret, Kenya as part of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team in the country. Together with hospital staff, MSF is providing emergency medical care in Eldoret following the...[more]

 

NEWS : 10 January 2008

End of Ebola epidemic in Bundibugyo is near

No new cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been reported since Dec. 23, 2007 in Bundibugyo district, Western Uganda. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, who have been taking care of Ebola patients in the area since early...[more]

 

NEWS : 09 January 2008

MSF assists people displaced by violence in Kenya

Eight additional Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) international staff have arrived in Kenya to help assess and respond to the needs created by the violence and insecurity that has rocked the country since elections on Dec. 27,...[more]

 

NEWS : 08 January 2008

Bangladesh: MSF ends cyclone Sidr emergency intervention

Forty days after starting emergency assistance for people affected by cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has ended its relief work in the area....[more]

 

NEWS : 02 January 2008

Somalia : Two MSF Workers Freed

Bossaso, Somalia / Barcelona, Spain

Mercedes García and Pilar Bauza, a Spanish doctor and an Argentinian nurse who work for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Somalia, were freed today at 2:30 pm local time. MSF is relieved that...[more]