One year after the attack on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity
On 12 May 2020, the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked. Twenty-four people were killed, according to of...
War and conflict
Sudan
Sudan: MSF condemns attack on ambulance taking pregnant woman to hospital
In the early hours of Saturday 3 April, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to A...
War and conflict
Maternal health
Myanmar
Myanmar: Hope and solidarity in the midst of crisis
The sweet fragrance of jasmine flowers strung across the rearview mirror of a taxi I was in offered the only sense of familiarity in a country that ha...
War and conflict
Ethiopia
Ethiopia: “I turned around and started running and that is when I was shot”
A number of people were killed when soldiers travelling in several vehicles opened fire near the bus station in the town of Adwa, in Ethiopia’s Tigray...
War and conflict
Yemen
Yemen: MSF suspends hospital admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all patient admissions to the organization's emergency trauma hospital in Aden, Y...
War and conflict
Yemen
Yemen: Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in northern Yemen generally see more children with cases of severe malnutrition at this t...
War and conflict
Malnutrition
Yemen
Indiscriminate frontline hostilities and new sanctions are the latest addition to Yemen’s medical emergencies
To the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, renewed conflict on the frontlines intensified at the end of 2020, and the number of civilians...