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CHAD: Oxfam and MSF suspend activities in Kerfi following attacks

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Oxfam and Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) have suspended their activities in Kerfi, near Goz Beida in eastern...

MSF closes medical project in Kismayo, Somalia

Sunday, April 06, 2008

MSF has worked continuously in Somalia for more than 17 years and is currently providing medical care in ten regions in the country. Following the...

Somalia: MSF demands access to the area where the two MSF expatriates are still in captivity, in order to check their status

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

More than 48 hours after their abduction, Mercedes Garcia and Pilar Bauza continue in captivity . Médecins Sans...

MSF asks Somali authorities for the safe and immediate release of our two staff members

Médecins Sans Frontières

Saturday, December 29, 2007

"Our priority now is that our two colleagues are released without harm." After confirming that two staff members have...

SOMALIA: Mogadishu residents trapped by violence – MSF

IRIN

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Increasing violence in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu has trapped many residents, leaving them with no safe place to go, Médecins Sans...

Health organisations respond to Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wikinews

Monday, September 17, 2007

The World Health Organization (WHO), non-governmental aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

GUINEA: Cholera cases still rising

IRIN

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

At least 800 more people have been infected with cholera over the last week, bringing the total number of reported cases to 2,500 since January out...