The humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontiere (MSF) has pulled all of its staff out of a town in the Central African Republic and handed a hospital it was running back to the government. The move comes after MSF reduced its presence in the area around the town of Kabo following an attack on one of […]
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African migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are discriminated against in Lithuania as the country’s authorities prolong detention without a mandated court-issued extension. Many people are reported to have grave vulnerabilities and have been tortured or sexually assaulted. An international humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in a press statement released on Tuesday, described it as […]
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The International Non-governmental Organisation, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), has announced that it will be closing its bases in Mamfe and Kumba in the Southwest region of Cameroon by August 1, 2022. A communique made public yesterday, Friday, July 15, 2022, states that the closure would result in the termination of the contracts of most of […]
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Sudanese military authorities have released nine medics working with the Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) a day after being arrested for treating injured protesters during a crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations. According to a statement by the pro-democracy Central Committee for Sudanese Doctors on Tuesday, Jan. 25, the MSF staff members were detained in Khartoum, […]
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Medicines Sans Frontier/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has revealed that residents and children in Chad are likely to suffer from acute malnutrition due to climate change. Chad’s Sahel region is considered one of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change, with rising temperatures, erratic rainfalls, and increasing desertification. Ibrahim Barrie, MSF medical team leader, revealed that […]
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Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, an International NGO is supporting the women in Bamako, Mali in the fight against breast and cervical cancer. The organisation, in collaboration with Mali’s Ministry of Health, and its many partners said it screened more than 5,000 women in Bamako during the Pink October campaign. Alice Authier, MSF’s oncology […]
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Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international NGO, is responding to 30,000 displaced people suffering from the aftermath of a clash between two communities in Northern Region of Cameroon. The charity organisation said the displacement came as a result of a clash that broke out between the Mouzgoum and Choa Arab communities on Tuesday, […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) an International NGO has withdrawn its teams from the North-West region of Cameroon after medical areas have been badly affected by armed violence between security forces and armed separatist groups and after nearly eight months of suspension by the Cameroonian authorities. “We cannot stay any longer in a region […]
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Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, an International NGO, says its medical teams in Gedaref’s Umm Rakouba camp and Al Hashaba/Village have received 278 patients suffering from Hepatitis E. The organisation said 16 of the patients including three pregnant women were hospitalised. Hepatitis E is a contagious virus obtained from drinking contaminated water with faecal […]
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Médecins Sans Frontìères (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, an international NGO, has opened an upgraded version of MSF’s previous malnutrition centre at Fori primary centre. The new health centre Nilefa Keji (which means ‘health is wealth’) in south Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, is to treat children with complications from malnutrition. From January to June […]
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders has called on the Swiss pharmaceutical corporation, Roche, the sole producer of the drug Tocilizumab, to lower the price of their drug and make it affordable and accessible for other countries battling COVID-19. Tocilizumab is the second drug recommended by WHO for COVID-19 treatment after recommending dexamethasone in Sept. […]
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The international humanitarian organisation Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) – Doctors Without Borders – says accusations by the Cameroon government that it supports separatist fighters in the Northwest Region were not true. MSF said in a statement issued on Tuesday, July 5, 2021, that it “categorically rejects the allegations of having provided support for separatist fighters […]
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