Over 600 malnourished children die in six months in Nigeria: MSF
- 26-Jul-2025
LAGOS, Nigeria: More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said northern Nigeria, which already is struggling with an insurgency, is “currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis”. Cases of the […]
West Bank Palestinians in ‘extremely precarious’ situation: MSF
- 24-Mar-2025
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced on Monday the “extremely precarious” situation of Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank. According to the United Nations, some 40,000 residents have been displaced since January 21, when the Israeli army launched an operation targeting Palestinian armed groups in the […]
Newborns among 13 dead in Kabul hospital attack; 24 killed in funeral bombing
- 12-May-2020
Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic
Ebola response in DR Congo ‘failing’ to contain outbreak: MSF
- 07-Mar-2019
Seven months into the outbreak, "the Ebola response is failing to bring the epidemic under control," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement.
Some 6,500 migrants rescued off Libya: coastguard
- 30-Aug-2016
ROME, ITALY: Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
At least 11 killed in coalition air raid on Yemen hospital: MSF
- 16-Aug-2016
SANAA: An Arab coalition air raid hit a Yemeni hospital on Monday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 19, just 48 hours after strikes that killed children, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
Aziz urges MSF to provide medical assistance in Indian-held Kashmir
- 05-Aug-2016
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has written a letter to the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) and urged them to immediately provide medical assistance to thousands of injured people in Indian-Occupied Kashmir.
US strike on Afghan hospital in 2015 not a war crime – Pentagon
- 01-May-2016
WASHINGTON: A deadly US air strike in Afghanistan last year that destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders did not amount to a war crime.
MSF hospital strike ’caused primarily by human error’: US commander
- 25-Nov-2015
KABUL: A US air strike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 30 people was caused primarily by human error, the commander of US forces said Wednesday, promising disciplinary action.
Charity organization files case against Phantom producers
- 28-Aug-2015
MUMBAI: Producers of Bollywood flick Phantom are being served a legal notice from an international charity organization claims that the movie can endanger the lives of its medics serving duties in war-ridden countries.