2018: A year in Pictures

Gorgeous baby Raihana was born 1 January 2018 in Dascht-E Barchi Maternity hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. MSF continues to provide 24-hour maternal care at the hospital, the only facility for emergency and complicated deliveries in the area. © MSF

A migrant rests in a shelter in Mexico with sores and wounds on his feet after many days on the road. Throughout 2018, people continued to flee horrific violence in Central America. MSF works in shelters along Mexican migration routes to provide medical and psychological care for migrants exposed to further violence and abuse by criminal gangs, petty criminals and authorities. © Juan Carlos Tomasi / MSF

A baby is treated for severe acute malnutrition at an MSF hospital in the governorate of Amran, Yemen. Her mother travelled three hours to the hospital to seek care for her daughter. Yemen is now in its fourth year of war. According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 16,000 air raids have been recorded in the last three years - roughly 15 a day. Warring parties have destroyed much of the country's public infrastructure, including health facilities. Purchasing power has collapsed, wheat flour costs almost 80 per cent more than before the war, and the price of petrol has risen by 130 per cent. As a result, MSF has seen high levels of malnutrition among Yemeni children. © Agnes Varraine-Leca / MSF

Congolese refugees step ashore in Sebagoro, Uganda, having fled conflict in their home province of Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo. Houses were burnt, people were killed and tens of thousands fled their homes in search of safety. The journey to reach Uganda can take between six to 10 hours, and there have been reports of refugees who drowned after their boat capsized. Over 60,000 Congolese arrived in Sebagoro between December 2017 and March 2018. © Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi / MSF

A year after the battle for Mosul officially ended, the scars of war remain. The need for physical rehabilitation and mental health support far exceeds the availability of services in Iraq. Mohamed, from West Mosul, is treated at the MSF hospital south of Mosul, Iraq. MSF began providing long term post-operative care, including rehabilitation and psychosocial support, at the hospital in March. It is the only facility providing post-operative care in the region. © Diego Ibarra Sánchez / MSF

A wounded man is evacuated during the ‘March of Return’ protests, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian demonstrators gathered at the separation fence between Gaza and Israel and were targeted by the Israeli army. On this day, 14 May, authorities reported 55 Palestinians dead and 2,271 wounded. © Laurence Geai / MSF

The Aquarius rescues two boats crammed with migrants on the Mediterranean in June, after one boat broke apart in the darkness and 40 people were thrown into the sea. In December 2018, MSF was forced to end its search and rescue operations following a campaign by European states to obstruct lifesaving humanitarian aid at sea. An estimated 2,133 people have died in the Mediterranean in 2018. © Kenny Karpov / SOS MEDITERRANEE / MSF

Women queue at a food distribution site in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. August marked one year since the beginning of the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees fleeing targeted violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar Almost one million Rohingya live in Bangladesh in what is now the largest refugee settlement in the world. Their status and future remain uncertain. © Kate Geraghty / Fairfax Media / MSF

Children gather around a fire in Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, where more than 7,500 people seeking safety are cramped into a space made for 2,500. In 2018, MSF mental health teams observed that nearly a quarter of the children they had seen had harmed themselves, attempted suicide, or had thought about committing suicide. © Robin Hammond / Witness Change / MSF

A man receives physiotherapy from MSF at a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, in August. He was stabbed several times in the chest in PK5 neighbourhood. “The support I received at the hospital allowed me not to sink, not to lose my head,” he says. The bloody but largely neglected conflict in Central African Republic has resulted in thousands being killed or wounded and millions being displaced. © Elise Mertens / MSF

A young couple meet over the window in a detention centre in Libya, where they are separately detained. On 2 September, 276 people were brought by the Libyan coast guard to Khoms, Libya, following a shipwreck in which over a hundred people were reported to have drowned. MSF provided urgent medical assistance. Almost all who make the journey from Africa and the Middle East and attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea pass through Libya. © Sara Creta / MSF

A health worker dresses in personal protective equipment before entering the red zone of the MSF-supported Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo. Declared an epidemic in August, so far, 440 people have been infected with the virus, 255 of whom have died. MSF asks every survivor to become an ambassador by raising awareness in the community. Some people who are now immune to the virus can, in turn, provide valuable help, particularly looking after children isolated from their families. © John Wessels / MSF