Posts in Somalia

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Somalia: Gearing up in Galgaduud

In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organizations like MSF to operate at full capacity.

Somalia 2010 © Julien Rey MSF

New video from the outskirts of Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

The effects of ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region have intensified the situation in Somalia, already precarious due to 20 years of...

"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"

As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de

"It’s only lunchtime and we’ve already admitted 151 children today.”

Dr Hussein Sheikh Qassim works in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Marere, southern Somalia. He spoke to us by phone at 1pm on 15 July 2011.

This video clip  is from yesterday's (6th July 2011) BBC One lunchtime news.

"Over the past weeks, I've seen hundreds of malnourished children"

My name is Osman* and I work for MSF as the nutritional supervisor in Marere, a village of 6,000 people in south central Somalia.

A Somali child suffering from malnutrition receives treatment at MSF clinic

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Somalia Appeal to date.  Even for the long-suffering Somali...

 

In a displaced people's camp in Somaliland, life flourishes amidst hardship.

 

This week's Frontline video looks at the worsening situation in the refugee camps around the town of Dadaab, just over the border from Somalia in...

Somalia
Newsflash June 2011: Somalia is facing a medical emergency as severe drought strikes.  Children are the hardest hit...

Somalia 2010 © Siegfried Modola

Efforts underway at the United Nations to integrate humanitarian assistance into the international military campaign against opponents of Somalia’...

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In a report released on February 13th 2013, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
highlights violence, displacement and food...

In a report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) highlights violence, displacement and food shortages as...

Somali 2011 © Peter Casaer/MSF

It is with great sadness that the
international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
marks...

Andrias Karel Keiluhu and Philippe Havet © MSF

One in four children living in camps on the edge of the
Somali capital are malnourished, according to Médecins Sans
Frontières/Doctors...

MSF staff doing nutritional screening. Somalia 2012 © Mike Woodman/MSF

This week, government leaders gather in Geneva on the occasion of the 63rd UNHCR Executive Committee, while in Dadaab - the world’s largest...

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The last children under treatment for severely malnutrition today left the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) feeding centre in the southern Somali...

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Dadaab holds the shameful title of the largest refugee camp in the world.

It is only a matter of time before the next emergency hits Dadaab refugee camp, says a briefing paper released today by Médecins Sans Frontières/...

Dusty streets in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya

Though media attention has faded, Somalia remains in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis.

OPD in Rajo camp in Mogadishu  Somalia 2011 © Yann Libessart/MSF

This document gives an overview of MSF activities related to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, which have...

MSF condemns the
shelling of Daynile Hospital in Mogadishu,
which took place Friday, March 30th.

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MSF takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

MSF takes stock of the current
humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home
to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

Refugees queue outside MSF's hospital at Dadaab camp.  Kenya 2011 © Natasha Lewe

Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr.

President of MSF, Dr. Unni Karunakara treats a child in Mogadishu

Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues, Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, were killed two weeks ago by a gunman while implementing...

Somalia 2011 © Sven Torfinn

It is with great sadness that Médecins Sans Frontières confirms that two staff members were killed yesterday morning as a result of a shooting in...

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Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)  staff in Marere, in Lower Juba Region, southern Somalia, are treating dozens of...

Distribution of relief goods at an internally displaced people's camp in Somalia

Following the abduction of two MSF staff in Dadaab, Kenya, on 13 October, the international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, logisticians working in Dadaab Kenya © MSF

Update: Yesterday, Thursday October 13, an MSF team suffered an attack in Dadaab, Kenya.

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Despite some recent gains in the fight
against childhood malnutrition, the global food aid system largely continues to
provide substandard foods...

Malnutrition: mother and child © Franco Pagetti/VII

Ravaged by 20 years of civil war, the Somali capital has experienced an influx of displaced persons in the last three months.

Food distribution in Rajo camp in Mogadishu

Measles. It starts with a fever, runny nose and a cough. Then a rash. For children who are not immunised this often spells disaster. 

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MSF is currently battling outbreaks of cholera and measles in and around the town of Marere in southern Somalia. 

A baby at Marere hospital, Somalia

MSF is assisting wounded patients in the town of Galcaayo in the Mudug Region of Somalia.  Heavy fighting broke out on Thursday, 1st...

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has redoubled its efforts to
reach those most in need in Somalia,
where it has been working for more than 20 years...

Somalia 2011 © Sven Torfinn

A food crisis in Somalia is affecting millions. Children are
dying, families are fleeing to refugee camps and pressure is mounting –
even...

Somalia 2011 ©  Feisal Omar

MSF
has sent medical teams and four charter planes carrying 55 tonnes of medical
equipment, medicines and therapeutic food to Mogadishu, Somalia’s...

Cargo on its way to Mogadishu, Somalia. Belgium 2011© Julie Remy

Interview with Mohamed Somane Abdi, MSF Assistant Project Coordinator in Marere, southern Somalia

Mother holds her son in a hospital

Alice Gude is a British nurse working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without
Borders (MSF) in Liben, Ethiopia....

Alice Gude

As the humanitarian crisis at the Dadaab refugee camp in Northern
Kenya worsen and MSF's work intensifies, photojournalist ...

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Irish Indepedent, August 3rd 2011  Children arriving at the world's largest refugee camp are having to wait up to 10 weeks for...

MSF calls on the Government of Kenya and UNHCR to relocate refugees to the better Ifo 2 camp, as agreed 12 days ago.  

Kenya 2011 © Brendan Bannon

In light of the worsening nutritional crisis in Somalia, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

Photo of a mother and baby at Marere hospital, Somalia

In the town of Marere, in southern Somalia, there has been a sharp increase in the number of malnourished children arriving at the Médecins Sans...

The busy paediatric ward of the MSF hospital in Marere, southern Somalia

18th July 2011: With the latest update on the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, MSF's Operational Manager Joe Belliveau reports that inside...

A one-year old Somali girl is given emergency treatment at an MSF hospital in Ke

Waves of people continue to arrive every day at the sprawling Dadaab
refugee camp in eastern Kenya.  Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (...

A malnourished infant lies on a bed at MSF's hospital in Dadaab camp

MSF's Operational Manager for Somalia and Kenya, Joe Belliveau, was interviewed today (Monday 11th July 2011) on Morning Ireland.  He talks...

Joe Belliveau, MSF Operational Manager

The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that foreign relief organisations would be welcomed in territories...

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MSF Photostory: The three refugee camps run by the office of the United Nations High Commissoner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dadaab, Kenya,...

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Stranded in the desert of Kenya’s northeastern province, surrounded by mile upon mile of sand and scrubby bushes, 30,000 people are living in...

Dadaab, Kenya: Newly-arrived refugees from Somalia are living in flimsy shelters

Stranded in the desert of Kenya’s north-eastern province, surrounded by mile upon mile of sand, 30,000 people are living in makeshift shelters...

Amidst fierce fighting in and around Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, dozens of severely wounded people are being treated by MSF medical teams.

Somalia 2008 © Oscar Sanchez-Rey /MSF

The 'Ifo Two' refugee camp lies empty whilst tens of thousands of Somali refugees live in unacceptable conditions less than 10 kilometres away.

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Somali refugees, fleeing the fighting in their own country, continue to arrive in Dadaab, across the Kenyan border.

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In Somalia it is not only the elderly who suffer from blindness - the young are also affected.

Javier Roldan, MSF's field coordinator in Somalia takes us through pictures from his last visit to Somalia. All MSF international staff on the...

Directed by Peter Caesar and narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis, this documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges inherent in delivering...

Access to the Danger Zone - a documentary about MSF's humanitarian aid work