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منظمة طبيّة إنسانية دولية مستقلة غير حكوميّة ، نقدّم المساعدات الطبيّة إلى الأشخاص المتضررين من النزاعات والأوبئة والكوارث أو المحرومين من الرعاية الصحية.
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On 3 February the MSF supported #Nyala Teaching hospital received dozens of patients injured by airstrikes that hit residential areas of Nyala, South Darfur. An MSF doctor working at the hospital describes what he witnessed.
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🔴 Breaking: On Saturday, MSF and the Ministry of Health suspended all activities in South Hospital, Al Fasher, North Darfur, after RSF soldiers stormed the facility, opened fire, and looted it, including stealing an MSF ambulance. 1/8⬇️.
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يوم الثلاثاء تم إيقاف و تفتيش قافلة تابعة لأطباء بلا حدود عند مغادرتها احد مستودعاتنا من قبل قوات الدعم السريع. طلبت القوات أن يدلي الفريق بتصريح أمام الكاميرا بخصوص إجراءات القوات في هذا الظرف بالذات، اضطررنا للقيام بذلك لتتمكن قافلتنا من المرور.
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After making the tough decision of suspending its activities and evacuating the remaining team from Wad Madani two weeks ago, MSF held talks with GoS and RSF to ensure access of staff and neutrality of its mission. As a result, an MSF team has returned to Wad Madani today.
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MSF HAS NOT LEFT AND DOES NOT PLAN TO LEAVE SUDAN. Some media have misquoted MSF saying that "MSF has suspended almost the totality of its work in Sudan". That is not correct.
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On Tuesday an MSF convoy was stopped upon departure from our warehouse & checked by RSF forces. The RSF requested we make a statement on camera regarding RSF procedures in this particular circumstance & we were obliged to do this for our convoy to be able to continue its journey.
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🎉 We’re pleased to announce the arrival of essential medical supplies for treating patients in Nyala, South #Darfur, after a month of challenges. 🚚 Two trucks have delivered supplies to Nyala Teaching Hospital 🏥. #TalkAboutSudan
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“The war nightmare is stalking us”: Stories from Wad Madani, #Sudan. We are sharing Souad's story about her displacement journey from Mayo, South Khartoum, to Wd Madni. 📌 Full story➡️
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“In Zamzam camp, there's an acute disaster on a catastrophic scale, with the fighting escalating, we're extremely worried that it'll make it even more difficult for the much-needed international support we've been calling for” says Claire Nicolet, Head of MSF's Emergency Response
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🔴Breaking: MSF-supported Al Nao hospital in Omdurman was struck on Wednesday June 19, amid heavy shelling in the city, killing three, including a local hospital volunteer. At least 27 injured were admitted to the ER.
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🔴 Clarification on MSF’s meeting with the RSF in Geneva: Although the RSF pledged to facilitate aid, our teams on the ground still haven’t retrieved our two trucks headed to Zamzam camp, which are being held by RSF troops in Kabkabiya. #TalkAboutSudan
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🔴BREAKING: Yesterday a member of our team in El Fasher, Sudan, was killed when shelling hit his house, which was located close to the city's main market. We offer our deepest condolences to his family. Thread ⬇️.
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On Saturday, we lost a colleague, Fateh Elrahman Hassan Gasim Tirab, when a bomb struck his house, in #Nyala, #South_Darfur, #Sudan. Fateh and two of his brothers passed away, while two of his sons were injured.
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🚨MSF-supported South Hospital in El Fasher, has received 454 casualties since Friday 10 May. 56 patients passed away, but the wounded & death toll are likely higher, since the fighting continues to be so intense that many people can't reach the facility.
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🔴 توضيح بشأن اجتماع منظمة أطباء بلا حدود مع قوات الدعم السريع في جنيف: على الرغم من تعهد قوات الدعم السريع بتسهيل المساعدات، إلا أن فرقنا على الأرض لم تتمكن بعد من استعادة شاحنتينا المتجهتين إلى مخيم زمزم، والتي تحتجزها قوات الدعم السريع في كبكابية. #اتكلموا_عن_السودان
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🔴One by one, hospitals are damaged and closed in El Fasher as fighting rages. Meanwhile, thousands of people are fleeing in search of safety, with many arriving at Zamzam camp, where there is already an acute malnutrition crisis.
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"What we’ve seen before our eyes has been nothing short of horrendous" @MSF General Secretary @Chris_lockyear speaking from Al Nao hospital as it received patients injured in an RSF attack on a market in Omdurman. Civilian lives must be protected!.#KeepEyesOnSudan #TalkAboutSudan
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🔴 يوم 20 سبتمبر، تم احتجاز شاحنة مستأجرة تابعة لأطباء بلا حدود بالقوة واحتجاز سائقها عند نقطة تفتيش تسيطر عليها قوات الدعم السريع في الشقيق، ولاية النيل الأبيض، #السودان . ندعو قوات الدعم السريع بتزويدنا بأي معلومات عن مكان وجود السائق وإعادة الشاحنة مع المواد الطبية.
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🛑 A critical bridge connecting West, Central, & S. Darfur has collapsed due to severe floods & rains last week. This was the only safe route for humanitarian aid to reach Central & S. Darfur. This adds another major obstacle to our efforts in delivering life-saving aid to #Sudan
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1/9 In response to escalating conflict in North Darfur, MSF has treated over 100 war-wounded patients, many children among them. However, the situation in Zamzam camp is reaching a critical point with a major malnutrition crisis. Urgent help is needed.
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"The Sudanese conflict has been neglected for too long. There are millions, tens of millions of ppl in need, & the lack of political & financial engagement has got to be addressed. This cannot continue one day more." Kenneth Lavelle, @MSF Director of Operations. #TalkAboutSudan
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South Hospital was hit twice over the past few days, all three major medical facilities in the city have been damaged as SAF and the RSF face off in North Darfur’s capital. Only two of these facilities are still able to function.
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🔴عاجل: تعرض مستشفى النو الذي تدعمه منظمة أطباء بلا حدود في أم درمان للقصف يوم الأربعاء 19 يونيو/حزيران، وسط قصف عنيف في محيط المدينة، مما أدى إلى مقتل ثلاثة أشخاص، من بينهم متطوع محلي. وتم إدخال ما لا يقل عن 27 جريحًا إلى غرفة الطوارئ في إثر الغارة.
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🔴1/ لم يتبقَ لدينا من الغذاء العلاجي للأطفال المصابين بسوء التغذية في مخيم #زمزم بالسودان سوى ما يكفي لأسبوعين إضافيين. وللأسف، اضطررنا اليوم إلى تحديد عدد الأطفال الذين يمكنهم تلقي هذا العلاج نتيجة احتجاز قوات الدعم السريع لشاحناتنا المحملة بالإمدادات.
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🔴Update on the @MSF Truck that was intercepted and seized by unknown armed men in Central #Darfur between Zalingei and Rokero. #TalkAboutSudan. Full statement 👇
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🚨 @MSF’s team in Bashair Hospital in south Khartoum is seeing rising numbers in the emergency room – a 14% increase in 3 weeks. Yet medical teams are hampered in their work by recurring security incidents and intimidation in the wards by armed RSF combatants. #TalkAboutSudan
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📍Nyala, South Darfur. Oliver Behrn, @MSF Director of Operations, describe the catastrophic situation in #Darfur, which meets with a humanitarian desert & unmet needs. 📹 The video was filmed during his field visit to MSF projects in South Darfur, in March 2024. #TalkAboutSudan
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🚨#Sudan: This morning a residential building in Omdurman, where MSF staff live, sustained a direct hit, damaging the building's top floor amid heavy shelling in the city. Our team members present were unhurt although sadly there were casualties among other residents in the area.
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🚨 Zamzam camp in #Sudan was shelled for the 1st time on Sunday night. There were no casualties, but the camp hosts over 300,000 people & since the warring parties have already hit hospitals 10 times & do not spare civilians, there is a clear risk of bloodshed if it is hit again.
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"El Geneina Teaching Hospital is the only real functioning hospital, in West Darfur at the moment and the health care system is completely collapsed all around us." Jean Nicolas, @MSF Emergency coordinator in El Geneina, #WestDarfur. #TalkAboutSudan
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#Sudan @WFP we see significant malnutrition and increasing food insecurity in the patients coming to our clinics in Nyala, South Darfur. The people of South Darfur need your help, where are you?. #TalkAboutSudan
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⚠️ SUDAN: Unconscionable surgical ban in Khartoum that puts hundreds of lives at-risk must be immediately reversed. Implemented since early September, and communicated to MSF by the Sudanese authorities on the second of October. 🧵👇.
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2/8.At the time of the incursion, there were only 10 patients and a reduced medical team as MSF and Ministry of Health teams had started transferring patients and medical services to other facilities earlier this week due to intensified fighting.
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📽️Watch: Amina's Echo from Sudan. Amina Suleiman, displaced from Central Darfur. “The war started in Zalingei, where I’m from, on 15 April 2023- the same day it started in Khartoum. We kept hoping it would end, but it didn’t. We need psychological support. Many of us have lost
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4/8.“It is outrageous that the RSF opened fire inside the hospital. This is not an isolated incident, as staff and patients have endured attacks on the facility for weeks from all sides, but opening fire inside a hospital crosses a line.” said Michel Lacharite, MSF.
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On Tuesday 21 May, we evacuated some of our management team who were based in El Fasher to other locations within North #Darfur because of heavy, ongoing fighting in the city. (1/4).
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MSF’s compound in Nyala, Darfur was raided by armed men, who stole everything including vehicles and office equipment. Our warehouse – holding vital medical supplies – was also raided, we do not know to what extent as we have no access.
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(1/3) MSF confirms that armed men broke into our warehouse in #Khartoum on the 16th of May 2023 and looted it. So far, we are aware that two of our cars filled with supplies were taken.
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3/8.Most patients and the remaining medical team, including all MSF staff, were able to flee the RSF shooting. Due to the chaos, our team was unable to verify if there were any killed or wounded by the shooting.
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📍 El Fasher, North #Darfur. "There is shelling everywhere in the city and every day there are battles. Some days, we receive more than 100 cases of wounded, and there is no access to bring in medical supplies." - Dr Adam Shomo, @MSF Medical Leader in Darfur. #TalkAboutSudan
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📽️Watch: Aziz's Echo from Darfur. Aziz Adam, stems from the heart of West Darfur. Now he speaks from Iridimi camp in Eastern Chad:. "My family is incomplete here. My mom, my dad, seven of us siblings- there's nine of us in total. But the war separated us. Some of my family made
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🔴 On Thursday 27 June at 11am, Saudi hospital in El Fasher was hit by RSF shelling again - the 9th time a hospital in the city has been attacked since the fighting escalated on 10 May. Luckily, there were no victims but the facility sustained some damage.
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Yesterday around 4pm, a clearly marked @MSF vehicle travelling between #WadMadani & #Khartoum was hit by gunfire between SAF & RSF checkpoints and struck by bullets. The vehicle was on a routine trip between the two cities, where MSF works. Our staff were lucky to escape injury.
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⚠️Humanitarian operations in many parts of the country may grind to a halt⚠️. Looting and attacks on healthcare facilities and warehouses have reduced our stock significantly. We call all conflict parties to ensure humanitarian access and allow us to assist the Sudanese people.
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🔴 On Aug 17, over 20 armed men in military fatigues broke into the compound of the MSF-supported Al Shaheed Wedatallah PHCC, in Kalakla, stealing fuel for vaccines, telecom equipment, & food. 📣 We call on RSF and SARHO to protect medical & humanitarian facilities & personnel.
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🔴 MSF has been forced to suspend work in Madani Teaching Hospital, Al Jazirah, and move staff to safer areas in Sudan, after 3 months of increasing insecurity, deliberate supply & staff blockages, & violations of hospital neutrality, making the provision of care impossible. 🧵👇
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🔴 There is an urgent need to scale-up the response in North #Darfur. “The malnutrition rate is increasing in the hospital. The wards are small and can’t accommodate all cases of #malnutrition. One ward is not enough to serve the whole state.” Nazir Mohajer - #MSF doctor.
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5/8."Warring parties must halt attacks on medical care. Hospitals are closing. Remaining facilities can't handle mass casualties. We are trying to find solutions, The responsibility is on warring parties to spare medical facilities," said MSF Head of Emergencies, Michel Lacharite.
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7/8.South Hospital was one of only two with surgical capacity, was the main referral hospital for treating war-wounded in Al Fasher and the only one equipped to manage mass casualties. Between May 10 and Friday June 6, over 1,300 casualties sought treatment at the hospital.
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#TalkAboutSudan with your network and your elected officials. The War in Sudan has wrought unimaginable levels of #violence with bombings, shootings, and forced displacements. Individuals and communities facing trauma, displacement, fear and insecurity. We all must act now❗️
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(1/4) In the past 48 hours alone, medical and surgical teams from MSF and the Ministry of Health have treated 150 war wounded patients in the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum. The majority of patients are civilians - including children and the elderly.
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6/8.From May 25 to June 3, mortar shells and bullets hit South Hospital directly three times, killing two and wounding 14 patients and caretakers.
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⚠️عاجل: @MSF تعلّق العمليات الجراحية في مستشفى في #الخرطوم مع استمرار منع وصول الإمدادات. 🔴ليس لدى منظمة #أطباء_بلا_حدود خيار سوى التوقف عن دعم العمليات الجراحية المنقذة للحياة في مستشفى بشائر بعد أن منعت السلطات العسكرية نقل الإمدادات الجراحية من ود مدني لأكثر من شهر.
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“The needs in S. Darfur are enormous. Women & their newborns are dying because they can't reach healthcare facilities in time or there are no facilities. We need more actors to come & support the health system.” - Gillian Burkhardt, @MSF Medical Activity Manager. #TalkAboutSudan
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8/8.Wounded now are being moved to facilities like the Pediatric and Saudi hospitals, which were unprepared for such an influx. MSF aids in transferring services from South Hospital to other facilities and continues to tackle nutritional crisis in Zamzam.
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“Entering Sudan from Chad is shocking. After just a 30-minute drive, you reach El Geneina, a city that is called in Sudanese language ‘the garden’. There is nothing there to remind of this.’’ - Dr Christos Christou, #MSF International President.
“Entering Sudan from Chad is shocking. After just a 30-minute drive, you reach El Geneina, a city that is called in Sudanese language ‘the garden’. There is nothing there to remind of this.’’. Dr Christos Christou, our International President, describes the situation in Sudan👇
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📽️Watch our new: "We need to #TalkAboutSudan" mini series. Here MSF Emergency Coordinator, Claire San Filipo, talks about how Sudan faces one of the most devastating crises the world has seen for decades. The numbers are unfathomable 1 in 5 displaced and half the population
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🔴The ongoing six-month conflict in #Sudan has led to immense suffering and loss of life, pushing the country into a disastrous and critical #humanitarian crisis. @MSF staff share their First-hand experiences👇
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“South Hospital is the only hospital capable of treating the mass arrivals of wounded people & has received over 1,000 patients since fighting began on May 10. 145 of them were in critical conditions & died from their injuries.” says Abdifatah Yusuf, project coordinator with MSF.
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(1/5) Since 9 May, an MSF surgical team has been working alongside Sudanese medical staff and volunteers in a hospital in south Khartoum to provide life-saving medical care.
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After screening tens of thousands of women and children in displaced camps in North Darfur, MSF found that a third were malnourished, which constitutes double the threshold for a malnutrition emergency. The BBC featured MSF's findings in this report:.
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Without treatment, children with severe malnutrition are at risk of dying within 3-6 weeks. In our field hospital in Zamzam, the bed occupancy rate of our malnutrition ward is at 126%, indicating that many children are already in a critical condition.
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🔴 Sudan’s war is brutal & inhuman & has created one of the world’s largest displacement crises. In the video, Aissa was displaced with her family from Al-Hasahisa camp in Zalingei. For over five months, they have been living at the looted Zalingei fire station. Watch👇
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🔴 MSF is one of the few international humanitarian actors currently present and active in South #Darfur, trying to respond to what can only be described as a desperate situation. 📢 There are immense needs, we are calling for urgent humanitarian aid scale-up. #TalkAboutSudan
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When we were still present in the city, the medical care needs were enormous. We believe that the security and safety of our medical mission and health facilities will allow us to provide the necessary aid to those who have been severely impacted by fighting for more than 8months.
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🔴This is Um Rakuba, a busy refugee camp in El Gedaref state, eastern #Sudan, where people in desperate need of medical care wait patiently for their turn at the camp's hospital. The camp was established in November 2020, following the influx of thousands of Ethiopian refugees.
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The MSF team has arrived at the Teaching Hospital in Wad Madani and is presently doing an evaluation to provide assistance as soon as possible to the hospital's various departments and other health structures.
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📽️Watch: Salwa's Echo from Darfur. Salwa Saleh, displaced from South Darfur. “We used to live an urban life, but we’ve been displaced from our cities. It’s hard to accept living in a camp. And even some of my family members are still in Sudan. They always say they won’t leave
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"Intensifying rains & floods are obstructing vital humanitarian supplies in Sudan. We can't control the seasons but we can & must call for all man-made barriers imposed by the warring parties to be lifted immediately." - Tuna Turkmen, @MSF emergency coordinator. #TalkAboutSudan
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#Sudan’s #WhiteNile state is receiving increasing numbers of people fleeing the conflict. 9 camps are hosting hundreds of thousands, mainly women and children. The situation is critical. Suspected #measles and #malnutrition in children are the most urgent health problems.
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Our 3 trucks bringing life-saving medical supplies - including therapeutic food - to #Zamzam and El Fasher have been blocked in the town of Kabkabiya for over a month by the RSF.
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Update: Al-Kalakla, Khartoum. After a 30-day suspension period, MSF has partly re-engaged its support of the medical and administrative operations at the Al Shaheed Widatalla Primary Healthcare Centre (PHCC) in the Al-Kalakla neighbourhood, Khartoum. Specifically, MSF has
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#Sudan needs your attention! - MSF International President @DrChristou. It has been more than a year since the conflict has started. There is violence. There is conflict. There is the largest displacement crisis in the world. 🔴We all must act now!. #TalkAboutSudan
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📣We urge all warring parties to allow humanitarian aid to move across borders into Sudan & across front lines. Deliberately obstructing or delaying humanitarian cargo is putting the lives of thousands of children at-risk as they are cut-off from receiving life-saving treatment.
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MSF teams answered the questions reaffirming MSF’s humanitarian principles: we are not aligned with any party of the conflict and our only aim is to support the population affected by the conflict and in need of medical care.
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📜 Open letter from @DrChristou, @MSF International president, on the situation in #Sudan and the lack of #humanitarian response. #TalkAboutSudan
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