Chad

On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, MSF is raising awareness of a little-known but...

 

Dispatches - Winter 2010

  • New life emerges from the chaos of the floods- Pakistan. 
  • How the man with the green file managed to beat the odds- Myanmar. 
  • War, fires and mud?

In
2010, the
heaviest rains for 40 years destroyed crops, flooded wells and cut off entire
villages in Chad.

Chad 2011 © MSF

I was very lucky to have had a chance to visit both of our projects here in Chad within the first two months of my mission.

© MSF

There's something humbling about ending up in a situation that you fell into by what can only be called absolute haphazard chance.

A small airplane in the desert © MSF

The annual "hunger season" seems likely to be particularly serious in the north-west African countries of the Sahel region this year, and some...

Niger 2012 © Julie Remy

Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached emergency levels and requires immediate life-saving intervention, according to...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just
marked 30 years in Chad.

Chad 2012 © Sabina Gobet/MSF

Irish Times, 28 February 2012 IN THE FIELD: Despite grinding poverty, widespread disease and frequent security threats, the people of Am Timan...

Irish Medical Times 30 November 2011 Forty years after the creation of MSF, Dr Rony Brauman, President of MSF from 1982 to 1994, looks back at its...

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