Activities in 2025
In 2025, MSF teams continued to run a health center in Kule refugee camp. In addition to our regular activities at the health center, which include malaria and sexual and gender-based violence care, we treated newly arriving refugees for violence-related injuries and cholera across the Gambella region, and distributed relief items, such as soap and jerrycans. In November, we completed the rollout of the malaria R21 vaccine for children under 5 in Kule — a first for Ethiopia, and for refugee camps globally.
In Ethiopia’s Somali region, where repeated failed rainy seasons have turned drought into a daily struggle for survival, MSF teams are screening children for malnutrition and supporting nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene activities with local authorities in the Barey district of Afder zone. Our teams also conduct vaccination campaigns to help overstretched health facilities cope with deepening funding cuts.
Three years after the cessation of hostilities in Tigray, people in the region still live in overcrowded camps, with little access to essentials. In Shire and Sheraro, we provide sexual and reproductive health care, care for sexual and gender-based violence and mental health conditions, and treatment for neglected tropical diseases. And to tackle cholera outbreaks in hard-to-reach areas, we set up treatment units and improved infection prevention and control measures.
In Korem town — located in a region that has faced health emergencies including measles, cholera, and malnutrition, as well as instability, limited access to health services, and damage to health infrastructure — we offered emergency and referral services, medical supplies, and staff training for maternal and child health services at Korem General Hospital. We also donated supplies to four other facilities in the area.
Our teams strengthened lifesaving care across Mizan Teferi, Semera, Gondar, and Abdurafi by responding to urgent medical needs and maintaining support for communities facing recurring health crises, from malaria outbreaks in the southeast to childhood malnutrition in Afar and kala azar, snakebites, and epidemic threats in Amhara.
Accountability for the deaths of our colleagues
On June 24, 2021, our colleagues María Hernández Matas, Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael, and Yohannes Halefom Reda were killed while on duty in Tigray. Since the Ethiopian authorities have not responded to our repeated requests for a formal and transparent investigation, we released our internal findings in 2025, which confirmed the attack as an intentional killing of clearly identified aid workers. We demand accountability for those responsible for attacking humanitarians.
