Doctors Without Borders

Taliban Announces It Has Withdrawn From Afghan City Of Kunduz

5:39pm October 13, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

The Taliban said in a statement they have achieved all their objectives including seizing the major transportation hub of Kunduz, releasing its fighters from a prison and grabbing tons of weapons.

Injured staff members for Doctors Without Borders find shelter in a safe room after the bombing raid hit their hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Doctors Without Borders Are Now Doctors In Anguish

6:52am October 12, 2015

by Susan Brink

Jason Cone, executive director of the aid group, talks about the impact of the bombing on his staff — and on the people of Afghanistan.

The trauma center operated in Kunduz by Doctors Without Borders was in flames after U.S. airstrikes on Saturday that left 22 dead, including medical staff and patients.

Was Kunduz Attack A War Crime? Legal Analysts Say It's Difficult To Prove

3:08pm October 08, 2015

by Michele Kelemen

A medical aid group says U.S. airstrikes on its hospital in Kunduz amount to a war crime. Analysts say an investigation is needed, but diplomatic fallout is more likely than a war-crime prosecution.

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Doctors Without Borders President Joanne Liu (right) is calling for an international fact-finding investigation into a U.S. airstrike on one of the charity's hospitals.

Doctors Without Borders Wants Independent Inquiry Into U.S. Attack On Hospital

4:29pm October 07, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Twelve of those who died were staff members of the Paris-based charity, which says the attack went on for 30 minutes after it contacted both Afghanistan's and the coalition's military leaders.

Health workers at an Ebola treatment center, run by Doctors Without Borders, greet a man whose family brought him in by wheelbarrow. They suspected that he had the virus. The center is in Foya, Liberia.

Doctors Without Borders Has Mixed Feelings About Award For Ebola Work

4:55pm October 06, 2015

by Anders Kelto

Lasker Award recipients include the medical aid group that fought the virus on the front line. Dr. Deane Marchbein shares her thoughts about the honor — and why it makes her a bit uncomfortable.

The burned Doctors Without Borders hospital is seen after explosions in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders says 12 staff members and 10 patients were killed in the attack and 37 others were wounded.

Doctors Without Borders: Kunduz Airstrike Was 'War Crime'

3:00pm October 05, 2015

by Scott Neuman

A hospital was hit while U.S. forces were conducting an airstrike in the Afghan city; the aid group says 22 people were killed. NATO has said it will conduct an investigation into the attack.

Injured Doctors Without Borders staff are seen after an airstrike in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday. Doctors Without Borders has called the incident a war crime.

World News

U.S. General Says Afghan Forces Called For Kunduz Airstrike

1:31pm October 05, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

John Campbell, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, said he was correcting initial reports that it was U.S. forces under fire from Taliban fighters. The weekend airstrike killed 22 civilians.

A student at a girl's school in Port-au-Prince walks past a mural by a famous Haitian street artist.

World News

The Mural That Made A Photographer Stop In His Tracks

3:50pm June 23, 2015

by Linda Poon

When Pulitzer winner Patrick Farrell saw the painting on a Port-au-Prince wall, he waited for the right moment, then started snapping.

The Ebola outbreak "overwhelmed" the World Health Organization and made it clear the agency must change, WHO's director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan, said Monday in Geneva.

WHO Calls For $100 Million Emergency Fund, Doctor 'SWAT Team'

8:00pm May 21, 2015

by Jason Beaubien

The World Health Organization isn't ready for the next pandemic or international health crisis, so the agency's leader is calling for major reforms. But will the changes be enough?

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Wencke Petersen, a Doctors Without Borders health worker, talks to a man through a chain link gate in September, when she was doing patient assessment at the front gate of an Ebola treatment unit. "There were days we couldn't take any patients at all," sh

Health & Safety

Ebola Gatekeeper: 'When The Tears Stop, You Continue The Work'

2:53pm November 25, 2014

by Kelly McEvers

At the height of the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, one woman stood at the gates of a hospital, turning away patient after patient. The hospital had 100 beds for Ebola patients; all of them were full.

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