Sherwan Qasem is an emergency officer currently based in MSF's office in Amsterdam. Originally from Syria, he was forced to take refuge in Türkiye in 2012.
Violence is threatening Al Nao hospital, a vital lifeline for people in Omdurman, to the northwest of Khartoum, as the conflict in Sudan enters its fifth month causing immense suffering for people in Khartoum and elsewhere across the country. Fighting in Omdurman has been particularly intense in...
The war in Ukraine has created a huge need for psychological support ranging from psychological first aid to comprehensive psychological care. People have experienced fear, trauma and isolation and are showing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. MSF psychologists are responding to mental...
By the time the current conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April, its Darfur region had already been facing war and ethnic violence for over two decades. Today’s fighting – which first erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—has...
The same hospital that was shelled on last Tuesday in Kherson Region, Ukraine, resulting in the death of a doctor and the wounding of five medical staff, was once again under artillery fire on 4 August. The fact that the first attack was widely reported and condemned appears to have changed nothing...
Since the start of the fighting in Sudan, MSF and Ministry of Health staff have treated over 1,000 war wounded patients at the hospital MSF supports in North Darfur. Here, Mohammed Alfa-qeeh – our project coordinator in El Fasher – describes the current situation in the city, detailing not only how...
Médecins Sans Frontières has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognised borders of Somalia,* due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents which have impacted the safe delivery of...
On the afternoon of July 20, four MSF staff as well as four truck drivers and a team of 10 daily workers were stopped by a group of armed men while transporting medical supplies to the Turkish Hospital in southern Khartoum, where MSF provides health care. After arguing about the reasons for MSF’s...
After the start of the war in mid-April in Sudan, 13,800 people fleeing violence arrived in CAR, according to the UN: they are mostly Sudanese refugees, but also Central African nationals who had fled their country during different periods of crisis. While the first refugees chose to settle in the...
[Update on 12/7] MSF Head of Mission for Syria, Sebastien Gay, comments on the UNSC failure to renew the cross-border resolution during their session on 11 July 2023: The failure to renew the cross-border resolution at the United Nations Security Council meeting on July 11 is shameful. Politics is...
