News from our projects

Ukraine

Ukraine: Communicating through local eyes and ears

Yuliia Trofimova is a Ukrainian journalist working as a communications officer with the MSF communications team in Ukraine. She often documents MSF’s emergency response to mass casualties and air strikes – all while trying to reconcile life…
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Gaza: Dire living conditions continue despite ceasefire

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…
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Nigeria: "This is an emergency"

Across Northern Nigeria, a devastating nutrition crisis is unfolding. Katrin Kisswani, a nurse and President of MSF Belgium, has just returned from Kebbi, a state in the northwest of the country. Here, she shares what the team is witnessing…
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Sudan: The hospital that became a lifeline

Since the war in Sudan began in April 2023 and reached Khartoum state, Al-Nao hospital, located in Omdurman city, has become a humanitarian anchor for thousands of people. The hospital ran with minimal service at the beginning of the war,…
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Gaza: MSF condemns Israeli attack on MSF water distribution site

On the afternoon of Monday, 15 September, Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck while it was distributing 10,000 liters of drinking water in the neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, in the…
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Bangladesh: Leading a collective effort to eliminate Hepatitis C

Dr Fatema Ferdousee, medical team leader for MSF’s hepatitis C project in Balukhali, describes how her team is going door-to-door to break the chain of hepatitis C transmission for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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Rohingya: How the taro leaf became a symbol of statelessness

Ten Rohingya artists, 10 children, and the confines of Kutupalong refugee camp. Together they developed a symbol that tells the story of Rohingya statelessness in a new way. A joint campaign by the Creative Advocacy Partnership (CAP) and…
Syria

Syria: Battling the ghosts of torture

In Syria’s prisons and security branches, the darkness of the unknown overpowered the darkness of detention cells. During nearly 14 years of war, arbitrary arrests grew more common, with many people held in custody without trial or…