Photo story: Fighting Diabetes in rural eastern Cape province of South Africa

Photo story: Fighting Diabetes in rural eastern Cape province of South Africa

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Beyond the clay pots: Children fighting diabetes in South Sudan’s remote villages

The road to Ariath, in Aweil North cuts through endless stretches of scorched plains in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan. When it rains, the road turns to mud, and when it dries, the heat burns through the ground of the cracked earth.

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MSF Afghanistan: MSF responds to the Kunar earthquake but winter risks bringing further hardship

The earthquake has left thousands of people vulnerable and displaced. The MSF team has treated about 7,500 of them in Patan camp and Ari Gamba camp in the Nurgal district of Kunar via two clinics and a health post offering primary healthcare.

GAZA: One Month of Ceasefire Flashquote

GAZA: One Month of Ceasefire Flashquote

One month into a fragile ceasefire that has taken effect in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians continue to face tremendous hardship, says Caroline Seguin, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Gaza.

SOUTH SUDAN: MSF resumes critical medical activities in Yei County, Central Equatoria State

SOUTH SUDAN: MSF resumes critical medical activities in Yei County, Central Equatoria State

Yei, South Sudan – 6 November 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to resume activities in South Sudan’s Yei County, Central Equatoria State, following a suspension of over three months.

Deadly Shipwrecks in the Aegean, October 2025

Deadly Shipwrecks in the Aegean, October 2025

Aegean Shipwrecks: The Cost of Deterrence

MSF West Bank: Settler attack in Masafer Yatta, interview with community member

MSF West Bank: Settler attack in Masafer Yatta, interview with community member

On 9 November, Palestinians were injured, including two who were hospitalised, after Israeli settlers attacked villagers of Umm al Kheir, West Bank, Palestine. An MSF team provided psychological first aid to the community following the attack.

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MSF Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in Sudan’s protracted crisis

Port Sudan 11 November 2025 - As starved people continue trying to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing urgent care to those who have reached the town of Tawila. Here MSF is witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition, in what is now the most severe example of a malnutrition crisis that has gripped Sudan since the start of the war.

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MSF Syria: Challenges in northeast persist, humanitarian needs increasing

6 November 2025 - Amsterdam/ Al-Hasakah: People in northeast Syria continue to struggle with access to healthcare, water, and food, according to an assessment conducted earlier this year in Al-Hasakah governorate by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF staff spoke with more than 150 families from both local communities and internally displaced persons.

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MSF Lebanon: Drone Strikes Outside MSF Clinic in Hermel

On Monday, Nov. 10, at around 2 p.m., a drone attack occurred just outside our Hermel clinic, where men, women, children, and the elderly receive vital care. The attack, which took place only a few meters from our entrance and patient waiting areas, shattered glass at our clinic and caused panic among our patients and colleagues. Thankfully, no one was injured.

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Flash quote: MSF UK reaction to UK's Global Fund pledge

Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is disappointed with the UK Government’s reduced pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, announced today.

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Ahead of this year's UN climate change conference we wanted to let you know 4 ways in which MSF is responding to, and raising awareness of, climate change.

This year had seen escalating challenges and reversals in global efforts to address the intersecting crises of climate change, health, and humanitarian need. At a moment when coordinated and sustained action is urgently needed, critical funding has been decimated.

SOMALIA From silence to healing: New fistula care in Baidoa offers hope for Somali women

SOMALIA From silence to healing: New fistula care in Baidoa offers hope for Somali women

When Faisa Idow went into labour with her first child, she sensed something was terribly wrong. The 23-year-old from a rural village in Somalia’s Bay region endured several agonising days of obstructed labour before being taken to a nearby town for an emergency caesarean section. After the delivery, Faisa noticed an unusual injury that caused her to constantly leak urine and lose control of her bladder. The condition, which she would later get diagnosed as obstetric fistula, left Faisa feeling isolated and ashamed.

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