Posts in Côte d'Ivoire

Refugee Testimonies: Nimba County, Liberia

A man from western Ivory Coast, seeking refuge in Nimba County, Liberia. May 2011.

Refugee Testimonies: Nimba County, Liberia

A man, 40, from Western Ivory Coast, seeking refuge in New Yourpea transit camp, Nimba County, Liberia. May 2011

A man hides his face after recounting the story of an assault.

Refugee Testimonies: Nimba County, Liberia

An older man, from western Ivory Coast. In Bahn refugee camp, Nimba County, Liberia. May 2011.

Ivorian Testimonies: Western Ivory Coast

Woman, 21, village in western Ivory Coast. May 2011.

Ivorian Testimonies: Western Ivory Coast

An old man, 72, in western Ivory Coast, April 2011.

His legs were set on fire, and he was badly burned and beaten.

Ivorian Testimonies: Western Ivory Coast

A man, 26, in Western Ivory Coast. April 2011.

Out of bullets, the soldier began hacking at him with a machete.

Ivorian Testimonies: Western Ivory Coast

An old woman from western Ivory Coast, seeking refuge in Teahplay, Nimba County, Liberia. May 2011. A woman hides her face after recounting the abuse she suffered.

Ivorian Testimonies: Western Ivory Coast

An older man in western Ivory Coast. May 2011

After 18 years, MSF ended all its programmes in Ivory Coast in October
2008.

Côte d'Ivoire 2011© © Katrin Kisswani/MSF

Up to sixteen civilians have been killed during an attack on Zriglo, a village in southwest Ivory Coast just south of the town of Taï, late last...

An MSF medic treats a mother and baby in a small clinic in Ivory Coast
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Displaced people in border areas need
better assistance

Ivory Coast 2011© Gael Turine VU

The medical and humanitarian emergency in Ivory Coast persists as violence rages in several neighbourhoods in Abidjan, and security in the west of...

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Hundreds of people died and hundreds of others were seriously wounded during an outbreak of violence that occurred in the Duékoué region of...

Cote dIvoire 2011 © Peter DiCampo

The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called today on the warring forces in...

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Issoufou Salha, MSF Head of Mission in Abidjan, explains the difficulty in treating patients amidst the violence in Abidjan and in the West of...

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New outbreaks of fighting in Ivory Coast are severely restricting already limited civilian access to medical care, the international medical...

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Ivory Coast is experiencing a new spiral of violence that is endangering populations’ access to medical care.

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On March 17, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams
working with Ivory Coast’s Ministry
of Health at the Abobo Sud Hospital
treated 66 wounded...

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Increasingly intense armed confrontations over recent weeks in Ivory Coast, together with political gridlock, have had serious consequences on the...

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MSF expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in the west of Ivory Coast and the border region with Liberia. As the population flees...

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Following the recent escalation of violence related to the political crisis in Ivory Coast, MSF is reinforcing its medical assistance in several...

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Another car arrives at our house in Abobo with supplies and our two
international staff. We leave to visit Anyama Hospital,
escorted by two 4x4...

The market is bigger and there are more goods. This is our first outing—to
the market and Anyama Hospital [Ed.

Salha, our head of mission, sent us a text this morning, telling us to hold
on. The message included a little wink: "Don't forget—the Licornes do...

Patients are showing up with their prescriptions for antiretrovirals and
tuberculosis drugs. We're starting to take care of them. In the end, the...

Gbagbo withdrew his surrender, saying that there had never been any question
of doing anything like that. The situation is falling apart.

Gbagbo's surrender was announced this afternoon. Cheers in Abobo, people
firing into the air everywhere.

MSF Diary: A Week in Fighting Rages in Abidjan

Delphine Chedorge's diary from Abobo Sud Hospital, in Ivory Coast

During a week of intense violence that preceded the arrest of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on April 11, the MSF team working at the Abobo Sud Hospital in northern Abidjan was isol

The Forces Nouvelles' final offensive began around noon. The U.N.