International Activity Report 2003
Liberia

International staff: 44 National staff: 300 MSF has been working in Liberia since 1990

MSF work in Liberia has shifted exclusively to emergency response with the intensi. cation of the country's civil war in 2002-2003, an upturn in violence that has affected the entire West African region. Tens of thousands of Liberians . ed the con. ict sweeping through the country. MSF staff worked tirelessly in Monrovia, assisting thousands of displaced people gathered in schools and stadiums, supporting public hospitals until the front line closed them down, even creating makeshift clinics in the two MSF residences.

More on MSF's work in Liberia and in the West African region.