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Italy rejects NGO ship's request for closer safe port

The Italian government has rejected a request from a ship run by Doctors Without Borders non-governmental organisation (NGO) to assign a safe port closer to the place where it rescued 73 migrants, an NGO official said on Sunday.

Reuters

Mexico shuts down large migrant camp in the south

The Mexican government has dismantled a massive migrant camp in the southern state of Oaxaca where tens of thousands migrants have cycled through to get temporary transit documents on their way to the United States border

The Independent UK

Italy allows 2nd aid group's migrant rescue boat to dock

Italy has given permission for a second humanitarian aid group's ship to disembark its passengers rescued in the Mediterranean at an Italian port

The Independent UK

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Pressure mounts in giant Mexican migrant camp as U.S. expulsions ruled unlawful

Thousands of migrants are camping in squalid conditions in a remote southern Mexican town after U.S. and Mexican authorities implemented new policies aimed at stemming the illegal flow of Venezuelans into the United States.

Reuters

Haiti fears spike in cholera cases as fuel blockade lifts

Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months

The Independent UK

Uganda ends school year early as it tries to contain growing Ebola outbreak

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread.

WEKU

Rescue charity to take Italy to court over migrant boats standoff

Italy’s new right-wing government has allowed only a select number of migrants to leave two rescue boats.

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Children living in 'open air prison' at Syria's Al-Hol camp: MSF

Beirut (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday deplored the fate of thousands of children living in "a giant open air prison" at Syria's notorious Al-Hol camp.

AFP

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New right-wing Italian government refuses to let migrants rescued from Mediterranean to disembark

Italy ordered the Humanity 1 to vacate the port of Catania

Evening Standard

Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

WEKU

Venezuelans who braved horrific jungle trek may now have to repeat it

Migrants who emerged from a two-week trek through the Panama’s Darién Gap found the US had slammed the door to asylum shut

The Guardian - US

Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis

Thousands of people across Haiti are becoming sick with cholera as medical staff struggle to care for them despite dwindling supplies of fuel and water

The Independent UK

For struggling Haiti, return of cholera is a 'catastrophe'

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - When humanitarian officials in Haiti try to describe their concerns over a new, fast-spreading cholera epidemic, they struggle to find words strong enough: "alarming," "chaotic," even "a catastrophe."

AFP

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The Independent UK

Nearly 300 rescued migrants reach southern Italian port

Nearly 300 migrants disembarked have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto after being rescued at sea in five different operations by a ship operated by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian wins its third Emmy for documentary ‘Get Away from the Target: Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard’

The Guardian wins its third News and Documentary Emmy.

The Conversation

How migrants who move between Zimbabwe and South Africa access healthcare in border towns

Zimbabwe and South Africa share a 225 km common border. There is only one official border crossing, at Beitbridge. An estimated 15,000 migrants and refugees from Zimbabwe and other countries cross daily either through the official border post or at illegal crossing points. Migrants’ access to healthcare, particularly in the…

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The hospital train helping Ukraine’s sick and wounded

Chronically ill and injured patients are evacuated from the embattled east to safer hospitals in the west.

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The Independent UK

150 migrants moved from overcrowded Dutch asylum center

Authorities have moved 150 migrants from an overcrowded asylum-seekers center in the northeastern Netherlands to two sports halls in a central city, alleviating the suffering of some of the people who have been camped in the open air in sweltering summer temperatures

AFP

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

Musa Qala (Afghanistan) (AFP) - The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged country since the Taliban returned to power a year ago.

The Independent UK

Dozens dead, injured in Haiti's capital in gang clashes

Local officials in Haiti say dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighborhood of the capital

Tribune News Service

After 30 years, a retired McCormick food scientist finally perfects ‘medivka’ recipe; sales of Ukrainian liqueur, produced in Baltimore, benefit Doctors Without Borders

BALTIMORE — The recipe hadn’t been written down anywhere. Like so many cherished family traditions, it was a gift of memory, passed down through generations. Until, that is, it reached Orest Hanas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

SGDQ 2022 raises over $3 million for charity amid controversy

SGDQ, the weeklong speedrunning marathon, wrapped up last week raising over $3 million for its chosen charity, Doctors Without Borders.

Miami Herald

12 days after one of their doctors was abducted, these Haiti hospitals are still closed

Two hospitals in Haiti’s capital that specialize in the care of childhood cancer, COVID-19 and women with high-risk pregnancies remain closed more than a week after they suspended operations to demand the release of one of their doctors, who has been kidnapped, and to protest the violence that’s paralyzing medical…

WEKU

Doctors Without Borders addresses charges of racism within its ranks

Journalists have compiled instances of favoring international staff over local staff and treating people of color inequitably. A grassroots group of staffers agrees. Here's how MSF is responding.

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