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Médecins Sans Frontières' position on the International Criminal Court prosecutor's case against the President of Sudan

30 July 2008

Once again in this type of situation, there is a lot of confusion introduced, whether deliberately or through lack of correct information, between the role of the states that have ratified the statute of the ICC, the United...

DRC: MSF to vaccinate more than 625,000 children

29 July 2008

A measles epidemic has struck the Tanganyika district of Katanga in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where hundreds of thousands of children are not immunized. MSF has launched a large-scale emergency intervention to...

Worrying situation for Afghans in Iran

29 July 2008

Afghans who have lived in Iran for years — some for decades — do not intend to go home. They continue to seek refuge in Iran, even as the country is organizing forced returns back to Afghanistan.

Interview with Jean-Guy Vataux,...

Cameroon: Isolated population harassed by bandits

29 July 2008

Road bandits are harassing populations in the border area between Cameroon, Chad and Central African Republic (CAR). Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a healthcare program for Bororo nomads and the local sedentary...

MSF Seeks to Continue Work in Niger

29 July 2008

On July 22, 2008, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was informed of a decree issued by the Minister of Interior of Niger, Albade Abouba, suspending MSF's authorization to work in...

Kenya: MSF teams in Mount Elgon blocked from assisting civilians affected by conflict

22 July 2008

For the last three weeks, staff of the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been stopped at road blocks and prevented by local authorities from providing medical assistance to the civilian population of...

Ethiopia: Sheleme’s Story

16 July 2008

Sunday, July 13, 2008.

They’re sitting side by side on one of the blue mattresses in the MSF stabilization centre in Kuyera in the Oromiya region. Sheleme and Kutuba are twin sisters. Their tiny four-year-old frames are dressed...

Worrying ruling in court case between Dutch Government And MSF

15 July 2008

The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked by the judgment rendered by Switzerland's highest judicial body, the Federal Tribunal. Following four years of proceedings, and in spite of two...

EU Summit: MSF seeks improved conditions for migrants arriving on Europe’s shores

10 July 2008

Photo: Christian Sinibaldi/MSF | Migrants from West Africa return from a 10-hour day of picking oranges. They live in an abandoned factory in Rosarno (southern Italy), together with migrants from Morocco. The factory has no...

Chad: MSF patients and medical workers attacked in Kerfi

09 July 2008

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Kerfi, eastern Chad, was attacked on Tuesday July 8. Following the assault on patients, their families, and MSF staff, the organization has withdrawn most of its staff from the area and...

Ethiopia: MSF withdraws from Fiiq

09 July 2008

Unable to respond to the medical needs of people affected by the internal conflict in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to stop its activities and withdraw from the Fiiq area where it started...

Ethiopia: MSF cares for severely malnourished children

03 July 2008

On 20 May, MSF set up a stabilisation centre in the Shashemene region of southern Ethiopia to provide 24 hour medical care to children suffering from complicated severe malnutrition. Within days the centre had admitted over 200...

Angola: Expelled Congolese face violence and degradation

03 July 2008

Since May 26, more than 30,000 Congolese expelled from Angola have crossed the border at Kahungula, Bandundu province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In response to an alert sounded by the Congolese...

G8 leaders must act to save most vulnerable in food crisis

03 July 2008

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on G8 leaders who will gather next week in Japan to take bold decisions to adequately finance food aid and nutrition programs directed at young children. With the malnutrition crisis...