The Latest Breaking News from Doctors Without Borders

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 · Nov 7, 2022

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 · Nov 6, 2022

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 · Nov 6, 2022

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.

Al Jazeera · Sep 4, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

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.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 4, 2022

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…

Miami Herald · May 17, 2022

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.

WEKU · May 9, 2022