“Such attacks, regularly committed by both warring parties, show a total disregard for civilians, who continue to pay the highest price for continued military operations that violate international humanitarian law." -Ahmed Fadel, MSF emergency coordinator in Nyala
We strongly condemn airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces on March 31 in South Darfur, near the Teaching Hospital and within a densely populated civilian area.
Following at least two strikes, the MSF-supported hospital received 5 wounded patients and the body of one person.
Today, we released a report providing the most comprehensive documented accounts of sexual violence in Sudan’s war. It includes survivor testimonies and data from MSF medical programs highlighting clear patterns of widespread and systematic abuse. Read the report here: bit.ly/4s5Nuza
Despite Gilead’s public claims that it can expand production of lenacapavir to meet needs, the company has refused requests from MSF to purchase a limited supply for use in our programs.
Read our open letter to Gilead here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/preve...
NEW: US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences is refusing to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF.
Dr. Luna Hammad makes it clear: Our Lebanese staff must be supported so they can support patients. Watch the rest of our briefing on the escalating conflict in the Middle East. youtu.be/bCkqXFB2XbE?...
What it's like in Lebanon for people in need of medical care:
A displaced patient with leukemia came to our mobile clinic. “I spend nights in a park, and I don’t know how I’ll continue my treatment." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/israeli-attacks-l...
A new doctor has joined our team. 🩺🌸 Tony Tony Chopper is supporting MSF. Wherever we go together, the principle remains the same: everyone deserves medical care, no matter where they are.
Follow his journey: www.msf.org/chopper
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Our staff and patients in the DTU are safe and were not injured in the attack.
The blasts, which began shortly after 7:00 pm, targeted several locations. The main gate of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, where MSF supports the diphtheria treatment unit (DTU) was targeted in one of the attacks.
said Dr. Alain Kikwaya, MSF medical team leader in Maiduguri.
“We helped stabilize them, dressed wounds, and referred the critical ones to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, where we had another MSF medical team supporting the Ministry of Health with both triage and stabilization of the injured,"
“We arrived at night at the State Specialist Hospital. The emergency room was full of patients with different kinds of traumatic injuries."
Explosions in Nigeria: On Monday, March 16, 2026, three suicide attacks were reported in Maiduguri, Borno State, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100. MSF sent medical teams to support the authorities in treating the wounded at two hospitals in Maiduguri where 108 patients received treatment
This is the second deadly drone strike in Adikong in less than a month.
Civilians MUST be protected.
Lebanon UPDATE:
After days of increased bombing and a sweeping evacuation order by Israel, Doctors Without Borders medical teams are scaling up activities to respond to the growing humanitarian needs. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/lebanon-msf-scale...
🚀 Huge news for people living with #sleepingsickness!
Acoziborole, a one-day, single-dose oral treatment developed with Sanofi, has received a positive opinion from @ema.europa.eu for the treatment of the most common form of sleeping sickness.
👉 bit.ly/46ZFpEi
Aid for Gaza must be urgently scaled up, not blocked: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/aid-g...
We’re committed to continuing our medical and humanitarian assistance, despite Israel’s March 1 deadline for 37 NGOs to leave Gaza and the West Bank.
Other residents start to gather in the kitchen, heating food with the same red cylinders and washing dishes in cold water. When they speak, clouds of white vapor escape from their lips — it is so cold in the room that their breath is visible in the sunlight.
Yuliia Murashkina begins to make pancakes for her granddaughter Sasha, who has just woken up. Yuliia takes out a small burner with a red gas cylinder and heats up some water.
In the kitchen of a shelter for displaced Ukrainians in Dnipro, the only light comes from the sun pouring through windows. Several clean electric stoves stand against the walls, useless. There is no electricity.
In the north of Gaza, MSF teams treat more than 500 patients a day, providing medical care to people living in dire conditions. Hear Dr. Roberto Scaini explain the variety of services MSF provides at Beit Lahia, North Gaza and why people in Gaza need more humanitarian aid, not less.
Good news! More than 174,000 children in El Geneina, Sudan, were vaccinated last month against measles, in the area’s first measles vaccination campaign since 2021.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/you-c...
Nowhere in Gaza is safe.
MSF reiterates our call for all parties to protect medical facilities and ensure medical staff and patients do not come under fire.
On February 4, an MSF colleague was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet while inside MSF’s primary health care center in Al Mawasi, Gaza.
She was transferred to Nasser Hospital for surgery and is now in stable condition.
US judicial ruling on TPS reflects Haiti's crisis:
Over 1.4 million people in Haiti have been forced to flee their homes, often taking shelter in schools or public buildings. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-judicial-rulin...
We denounce the restrictions on humanitarian access that the government of South Sudan has imposed exclusively in parts of the opposition-held areas of Jonglei state. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/south-sudans-gove...
MSF is deeply concerned that the expansion of the Global Gag Rule will cause serious harm to communities in crisis & cut off the most marginalized people from essential & lifesaving health care. Read our concerns about the new US Government policy here: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-c...
