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The Latest Breaking News from Médecins Sans Frontières

Libya coastguard accused of hampering attempt to save more than 170 people

Médecins Sans Frontières says ‘dangerous manoeuvres’ by coastguard put refugees at even greater risk

The Guardian - UK

Australian working in Rafah hospital says all staff are struggling: ‘We have victims caring for victims’

Médecins Sans Frontières logistics expert calls for immediate ceasefire and fears ‘catastrophic’ Israeli ground offensive

The Guardian - AU

Sexual Attacks Surge at the Darien Gap as Migrants Persist in Taking Treacherous Route Up North

According to Médecins Sans Frontières, there has been a sevenfold increase in these kinds of attacks

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‘Deeply alarming’: sevenfold increase in sexual attacks in Darién Gap, says MSF

More than half a million people made treacherous, week-long trek in 2023, facing horrors including mass rapes by armed bandits

The Guardian - US

South Sudan flooding hampers efforts to contain hepatitis E outbreak

MSF begins vaccine drive against incurable disease, which is spread via dirty water and kills thousands of pregnant women

The Guardian - UK

Médecins Sans Frontières treating refugees housed in home secretary’s constituency

War zone NGO holds clinics for traumatised migrants at RAF Wethersfield in James Cleverly’s Braintree constituency

The Guardian - UK

Afternoon Update: global outrage at Gaza hospital blast; huge Mt Isa mines to close; and Kathryn Campbell’s big pay package

Protests erupt across Middle East after hospital blast kills between 300 and 500 people

The Guardian - AU

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Wagner, conflict and poverty drive Central African Republic death rate above crisis levels: but where’s the aid?

The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the poorest countries in the world. Its GDP per capita in 2022 was estimated at US$491 per year.

The Conversation

Cost of tuberculosis treatment halved in deal to permit generic versions

Johnson & Johnson’s year-long deal on life-saving drug bedaquiline is seen as critical move in campaign against disease

The Guardian - UK

Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province

The Guardian - UK

The power of cultural identity on psychological well-being: Singing, trauma and the resilience of the Yazidi population of northern Iraq

Behind each door and gate in Sinuni, Iraq, there is a different story of trauma and resilience. The Yazidi community is still coping with the trauma and mental health burden following the ISIS genocide of 2014, where thousands of men, women and children were killed, tortured and kidnapped for sexual…

The Conversation

Supplies running out at Sudan’s remaining hospitals as healthcare disaster looms

In El Fasher, in North Darfur, only one hospital remains functional, with bomb damage, power cuts and only weeks until lifesaving equipment and drugs run out

The Guardian - UK

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

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‘Warfare is encroaching’: aid groups may have to cut back services in Haiti as violence grows

Médecins Sans Frontières operations threatened by armed incidents and shootouts at its hospitals, but closure would be a ‘catastrophe’ for Haitians

The Guardian - UK

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Mobile medicine: Providing healthcare to Ukraine's war-torn villages

Providing healthcare in Ukraine is a huge challenge not only on the frontline, but also in areas left ravaged by conflict. The Ukrainian army says it has re-taken around 1,000 towns and villages from occupying Russian troops. These are zones where mainly elderly, isolated locals remain. They need medication and…

The Hindu

India’s patent law safeguards under fire

The new recommendation reduces the period within which patent applications can be challenged to six months

Zenger

Migrant Tragedy: Mom-To-Be Dead And 22 Missing As Rubber Dinghy Sinks In Mediterranean

A pregnant woman has died and at least 22 more migrants are missing after their flimsy rubber dinghy sank in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeal for more aid as death toll set to mount

The hardline Islamist leadership says help needs to be ‘scaled up’ after the quake devastated towns and villages in the country’s mountainous east

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The Guardian - UK

Médecins Sans Frontières apologises for using images of child rape survivor

Medical charity’s president calls publication of controversial photos ‘a mistake’ and says guidelines will be tightened

The Guardian - UK

Médecins Sans Frontières condemned for ‘profiting from exploitative images’

Medical charity criticised for using images that ‘endanger and exploit children’ amid row over photos from DRC identifying child rape survivor

The Guardian - UK

Médecins Sans Frontières pulls images of teenage rape survivor after outcry

NGO takes down photos of girl, 16, from DRC from website after critics call them unethical and racist

ABC News

I'm a doctor working in Ukraine's underground metro stations, where displaced locals are now living in fear

The few remaining inhabitants of this crumbling Ukrainian city are huddled underground, crammed in to the subways or makeshift basement shelters, just trying to survive. I'm here as a doctor to help them, writes Lisa Searle.

The Conversation

Ukraine refugees need urgent, ongoing health care. We've worked in refugee camps and there's a right way to do it

The war in Ukraine puts the plight of refugees and displaced people back in the headlines. From February 24, more than 5 million people have crossed Ukraine’s borders. A further 7.7 million are estimated to have been been displaced internally.

The Independent UK

Borders bill makes UK ‘one of the most anti-refugee countries in the world’, says Médecins Sans Frontières

International organisation operating in 70 countries brands Commons votes ‘shameful’

Radio France Internationale

Médecins Sans Frontières’ 50th birthday

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières. There’s news about the Baha’i festival Ayyam-i-Ha, information on palindromes and ambigrams (!), and contemporary music from Cuba on Music from Erwan. All that and the new quiz…

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