This week, an MSF team travelled to Morocco's Chichaoua Province, located in Marrakesh-Safi, to evaluate the needs of the people living in the isolated villages affected by the strong earthquake that struck the country on the night of Friday to Saturday 8 to 9 September 2023.

While European politicians were replicating deadly agreements with Tunisian leadership last July, African migrants in Tunisia were living what they described as "the worst nightmare” of their lives. Many of these people are still targeted in a country that is unsafe for them.

In Sudan, where military operations have now entered their fifth month, MSF has been supporting the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum since mid-May. Although there was a risk that MSF would twice have to end it support to this hospital, it has been possible for MSF teams to maintain and even expand their support – in spite of immense challenges, which include ongoing visa shortages. Today, around 100 people come to the hospital for treatment each day, with an average of 40 coming to the emergency room.

Humanitarian organisations must urgently scale up their response to ease the difficulties faced by people fleeing the conflict from Sudan to Upper Nile state in South Sudan, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Thousands of returnees have been arriving sick and exhausted at the Bulukat transit centre in Malakal, north-eastern South Sudan, after travelling almost 72 hours by boats on the White Nile River. The Bulukat transit centre hosts about 5,000 people at any one time, many of them having to wait for weeks for onward transfers. People are without sufficient food, shelter or healthcare, as they live in temporary tents or out in the open during the rainy season.