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Press releases
Yemen: Population Flees Haradh as Attacks Continue
April 27, 2015
SANA’A, YEMEN – At least 11 people have been killed and 67 injured since April 21 during constant airstrikes and shelling in Haradh district, northwestern Yemen, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
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Yemen: Crisis Update, April 27, 2015
April 30, 2015
The conflict in Yemen currently has the country divided between the Houthi movement, supported by former president Saleh, which controls the north of the country (including the capital Sana’a) and continues its southward advance, and an anti-Houthi coalition based mainly in the South. President Hadi of the transitional government fled to Saudi Arabia in March.
South Sudan: Perpetual Displacement as Conflict Continues
April 27, 2015
Continuing violence in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State is leading to more death and displacement, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many of those affected are already displaced and living in dire conditions. MSF calls on all parties to the South Sudanese conflict to allow for necessary humanitarian access to all parts of the country.
MSF Sending More Medical and Relief Teams to Assist Victims of the Nepal Earthquake
April 26, 2015
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Kathmandu Valley before noon on Saturday, April 25. Although the full extent of the damage is still unknown, initial reports say houses and buildings collapsed in Kathmandu and surrounding areas. Tremors were also strongly felt in northern India, in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
MSF Sending Medical, Non-Medical Teams to Assist Victims of Nepal Earthquake
April 25, 2015
The international medical humanitarian medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is sending four teams of medical and non-medical staff to Nepal to assist those affected by the earthquake. The teams will leave from Bihar state in India, which is close to the border with Nepal and where MSF has been working since 2007. MSF will also send 3000 kits non-food items and medical kits to Nepal.