Italy detains migrant rescue ship, fines charity
Italy’s far-right government is taking legal action against a vessel operated by MSF in the Mediterranean Sea. Published On 24 Feb 2023 Italian authorities have detained and fined a rescue […]
Italy says Britain should take in Gibraltar-flagged rescue boat carrying 141 migrants
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA ROME Migrants rest after being rescued by SOS Mediterranee organisation and Doctors Without Borders during a search and rescue (SAR) operation with the MV Aquarius […]
MSF opens new facility in Afghanistan’s Kunduz after deadly US hospital bombing
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP Hospital staff of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) stand outside the MSF clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, 22 July 2017. (EPA Photo) Medecins Sans Frontiers in Afghanistan on Saturday reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province where nearly two years ago a US airstrike destroyed […]
Leaders try to fix ailing aid system in Turkey
Agencies | Published — Tuesday 24 May 2016 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon prior to their meeting at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, on Monday. (AP) ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday the burden of handling […]
KUNDUZ TRAGEDY : Plans in place for Afghan bombing probe: IHFFC
By John Heilprin OCT 15, 2015 – 09:20 The burnt-out MSF hospital after explosions in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3 (Keystone) A Swiss-based world body for investigating breaches of international humanitarian law says it has requested permission from the United States and Afghanistan – and already prepared an […]
At least 16 killed at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike
Reuters International OCT 3, 2015 – 15:58 By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in […]
Reports of Libyan detainee torture drive Doctors Without Borders away
Source: MSN ARABIA Doctors Without Borders (MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres) has suspended its operations in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because detainees are being tortured and denied […]