In the December "Month in Focus" video, violence in North Kivu province, DRC, forces populations to flee to neighbouring town Rutshuru, where MSF supports a local hospital; acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia draw attention away from violent clashes in the never-ending war affecting civilians; Maternal and infant mortality has reached alarming levels in South Sudan where MSF has set up an obstetric care program in the hospital in Aweil; the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in the Gaza Strip causing drastic restrictions on food and medical supplies; and intra-Palestinian tensions remain high in Nablus, West Bank with civilians traumatised.