Latest Doctors Without Borders News

Ailing kids wait months for Israeli permission to leave Gaza for treatment. Some die in the meantime

Dec. 06, 2024 09:36 AM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The 12-year-old Palestinian boy was lying in a hospital bed in central Gaza, wracked with leukemia, malnourished and whimpering in pain despite the morphine doctors were giving him, when Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF official, said she saw him in late October. ...

They fled war in Sudan. But they haven't been able to flee the hunger

Dec. 03, 2024 10:55 AM EST

ADRE, Chad (AP) — For months, Aziza Abrahim fled from one village in Sudan to the next as people were slaughtered. Yet the killing of relatives and her husband's disappearance aren't what forced the 23-year-old to leave the country for good. It was hunger, she said. “We don’t...

Armed men in speedboats make off with women and children when a migrants' dinghy deflates off Libya

Nov. 29, 2024 11:39 AM EST

MILAN (AP) — Armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya's coast, a humanitarian aid group said Friday. Dozens of men and boys who were aboard the...