Medecins Sans Frontieres

A wooden boat was spotted at night in international waters north of Libya by Doctors Without Borders' rescue team aboard the MV Geo Barents.

World News

A rescue ship saved them from the sea. Now these migrants find a tough road in Europe

11:27am February 12, 2024

by Ruth Sherlock

Thousands of migrants have drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe. The dangerous journey does not deter many more from the risky crossing.

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Smoke rises during clashes in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on April 16. "Some hospitals are being targeted by the warring parties," reports Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan.

Health & Safety

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

12:29pm April 18, 2023

by Andrew Connelly

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

A dirt road cuts through a sprawling Doctors Without Borders camp in South Sudan. In a letter, 1,000 current and former employees are accusing the aid group of racism and white supremacy.

Health & Safety

Doctors Without Borders Responds To Charges Of 'Racism' From Its Staff

7:30pm July 15, 2020

by Nurith Aizenman

The concerns range from condescending attitudes toward people of color to inequities of pay between international and local workers. The aid group's leaders have pledged to address the issues.

A woman walks between two of the tents that house the hospital wards. Most of the camp's residents are women and children.

Health & Safety

Reporter's Notebook: 'Embedded' With Doctors Without Borders

7:00am May 28, 2016

by Marc Silver

Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his week at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.

Injured Doctors Without Borders staff find shelter in a safe room after an airstrike on their hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

As War Dangers Multiply, Doctors Without Borders Struggles To Adapt

6:39pm May 10, 2016

by Jackie Northam

More airstrikes. More kidnappings. How will the medical aid group protect its workers, patients and hospitals in a more threatening world?

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U.S. Service Members Disciplined In Mistaken Bombing Of Afghan Hospital

8:14pm April 28, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The airstrikes killed 42 people at a civilian hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in October 2015. U.S. officials say personnel attacked the wrong target.

Members of Doctors Without Borders demonstrated in Geneva, after U.S. forces bombed the organization's hospital in the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz.

MSF Director Unsatisfied With Pentagon's 'Admission Of Gross Negligence'

8:28pm November 25, 2015

by Malaka Gharib

The Pentagon's report says the Doctors Without Borders hospital attack in Afghanistan was an accident. The group's executive director, Jason Cone, says it raises more questions than it answers.

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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After losing most of his family to Ebola, health worker Alexander Kollie (right) is building a new life with son Kollie James, the 1,000th survivor of the disease to be cared for by Doctors Without Borders.

My Son Is Doctors Without Borders' 1,000th Ebola Survivor

7:19pm October 21, 2014

by Alexander Kollie

Liberian health worker Alexander Kollie lost his wife, daughters and brother to Ebola. Then his son tested positive for the disease. He survived, and now father and son are building a new life.