Stories & News

enduring ceasefire
22 Nov 2023

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Australia Executive Director Jennifer Tierney has written to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging him to do everything in his power to bring about an enduring ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.

Al Aqsa hospital

Following the outbreak of war in early October between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian situation in the south of Gaza is dire and unsafe.

MSF logo
29 Nov 2023

The situation is worsening by the day for people living in Tougan, a town in the Boucle du Mouhoun region. Almost 20% of the children screened by Médecins Sans Frontières in this town in northwest Burkina Faso were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition. 

Mary James, the first female driver for MSF in South Sudan
27 Nov 2023

In the challenging terrains of South Sudan, Mary James navigates more than just roads. She navigates a path of inspiration, breaking gender barriers as the first female driver in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in this region.

unkrain ambulance attacked
27 Nov 2023

On Monday 20 November, two missiles hit a hospital in Selydove, Donetsk region of Ukraine, where five Médecins Sans Frontières staff were present. 

 Tsiva Aurélien, fisherman Andriamanantena Tsiva Aurélien with his family in front of their house, partially destroyed by the cyclone.
24 Nov 2023

World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities. 

diphtheria treatment center

Several countries across West Africa are experiencing some of the worst outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease diphtheria ever recorded on the continent.

MSF team started supporting Umdawanban hospital
22 Nov 2023

An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people at risk and must be immediately reversed.

Intensive nutritional centre in Adré hospital
22 Nov 2023

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning of the worrying nutritional status of Sudanese refugee children in eastern Chad. 

MSF doctors killed

Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors and a third doctor working with Al Awda following a strike on Al Awda Hospital, one of the last remaining functional hospitals in Northern Gaza.