Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to renew the cross-border resolution (UNSCR 2533) expiring on July 10, 2021 for the provision of humanitarian aid into northwest Syria. More than 4 million people residing in this area, more than half of whom are displaced people, risk losing access to desperately needed humanitarian and medical aid if the resolution is not renewed.

Following the attack on Solhan village in early June – the deadliest in the country’s recent history – MSF head of mission Dr Youssouf Dembélé describes the impact of the continuous violence on people caught up in one of the world’s fastest growing humanitarian crises in recent years.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

2021 marks the 50th anniversary of MSF. On this occasion, several initiatives will be organized throughout the year, including the MSF in the municipalities ("MSF dans les communes") project that started in Bissen on Sunday, May 16th.