Between humanitarian crises and medical emergencies: all the latest news

Nasteh Shukri Mahamud, is a nurse and MSF medical team leader in Rokero, Central Darfur. He describes what it's like providing healthcare in this isolated and volatile region.

“Djapan” * is 30 years old and works as a community health educator for MSF at the displaced persons’ site of the Drodro parish, in the Ituri province. Here is his testimony.

The world´s fastest-growing humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Burkina Faso. Over the past two years, escalating violence by armed groups in the north and east of the country has forced more than one million people to flee their homes.

A mental health crisis is growing in Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex, where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been stuck for decades now.

Extremely high rates of COVID-19 infection have been found amongst people living in overcrowded and poor conditions in and around the French capital, according to a seroprevalence survey conducted by MSF, Epicentre and the Institut Pasteur between 23 June and 2 July at 14 sites in the Ile-de-France region where MSF teams were providing medical assistance.

People’s need for mental health support has increased significantly in the two months since a massive explosion hit the city of Beirut.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges for mental health and epilepsy patients in Liberia, leading to greater social isolation and disrupting treatment in some cases.

MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri looks back at the blast that devastated her home city of Beirut, Lebanon two months ago and its impact on people’s mental wellbeing, including her own.

One month after the fires that destroyed Moria refugee camp, more than 7,500 people are still trapped in inhumane conditions in a newly built camp in Lesvos.