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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) frequently publishes updates, press releases, and other forms of communication about its work in more than 60 countries around the world. See the list below for the most recent updates or search by location, topic, or year.

Press release

Yemen: On First Day of Ceasefire, Hospitals Receive 76 Wounded and 21 Dead in Taiz

November 21, 2016

After intense fighting yesterday in Taiz, Yemen, emergency rooms managed or supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 76 war-wounded patients and another 21 people who were dead on arrival, including one off-duty MSF staff person.

It was the first day of a newly announced ceasefire in Yemen.

Most of the patients suffered fractures, severe burns, open wounds and lacerations as well as internal injuries. The wounded and dead were received on both sides of the front line, in hospitals and trauma centers managed or supported by MSF in Taiz.
Op-ed

Op-Ed: Lift the Blockade on Gaza

August 18, 2014

In this op-ed first published in Le Monde, Mego Terzian, president of MSF-France, discusses the current crisis in Gaza.