insert_link Africa MSF Reports Severe Violence and Healthcare Collapse in Sudan’s Conflict Civilians in Sudan have endured severe violence for over a year amid ongoing conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, suffering repeated attacks, abuse, and exploitation from both sides, Doctors Without Borders reported on Monday as per Reuters. The physical and mental trauma has been worsened by the collapse of the healthcare system and the insufficient international humanitarian response, according to MSF. todayJuly 23, 2024 16
insert_link World Search for dozens feared missing after deadly migrant shipwrecks off Italy By Gael BRANCHEREAU, Ella IDE The Italian coastguard searched off southern Italy Monday for survivors or the bodies of dozens of migrants feared missing, after two shipwrecks left 11 people dead. With up to 60 migrants potentially lost at sea, the coastguard said it has been looking for "possible missing persons" since late Sunday, "following the shipwreck of a sailing boat with migrants on board, presumably departing […] todayJune 17, 2024 21
insert_link World MSF tells UN Security Council “Attacks on healthcare is an attack against humanity,”… The Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières, Christopher Lockyear has told the UN Security Council that the medical situation in Gaza "appalled" by the United States' repeated use of its veto power. This week an MSF facility in Khan Younis was bombed, six people were wounded and two relatives of staff were killed. Lockyear said that the constant attacks on healthcare facilities is an "attack against humanity," ENG LOCKYEAR ON […] todayFebruary 23, 2024 14
insert_link World Gaza health ministry: 4 die in Israeli-raided hospital after oxygen cut The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said four patients died Friday due to lack of oxygen at one of the war-torn Palestinian territory's few operating hospitals that had been raided by Israeli forces. "The generators of the complex stopped and the power was cut off," the ministry said, raising fears over the fate of six other patients in intensive care and three children in a nursery at the […] todayFebruary 16, 2024 21
insert_link World WHO and partners bring fuel to Al-Shifa, as remaining hospitals in Gaza face growing threats WHO and partners completed another high-risk mission on Monday to resupply fuel to the Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people remain cut off from aid. Across the Gaza Strip, the few remaining hospitals find themselves in ever more dire circumstances, with hostilities often preventing access for patients and supplies, and health workers managing on little rest and scarce supplies. The mission was carried out along […] todayJanuary 24, 2024 16