Statements & Opinion

Floods, earthquakes, conflict – our teams are there to respond when emergency strikes. 

At least 49 people have been killed in two deadly attacks on a residential area and a market in Khartoum, Sudan. 

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late Friday local time in the High Atlas mountains, reportedly causing thousands of deaths and injuries. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are now on the ground assessing the medical humanitarian needs.

More than one million people have fled the fighting linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of them currently live in complete destitution in overcrowded camps in Goma and its surrounding area. 

Refugees in eastern Chad are in dire need of food, water and healthcare, with many suffering from malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  calls on the UN, international donors and humanitarian organisations to urgently respond to the vital needs of people in eastern Chad. 

For the past six years, Medecins Sans Frontieres has been alerting the world that the Rohingya people living in refugee camps in Bangladesh are at extreme risk of a critical outbreak of disease and that their living conditions are unacceptable and inhumane. 

28 August 2023: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been made aware of a data breach affecting Pareto Phone, a third-party tele-fundraising supplier that we engaged until 2018.

People who have fled violence in Sudan are in urgent need of shelter, food, water, sanitation, healthcare and protection services.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has witnessed extremely vulnerable people being pushed back indiscriminately by French police.

We call for the end of arbitrary detention of people on the move and the use of violence at borders.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has repeatedly called for the protection of hospitals and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, and once again condemns this outrageous attack on a medical facility.