floods

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?

Malnutrition is a chronic problem in Burkina Faso, but hits particularly
hard in the period between the two annual harvests, known as  the “...

Burkina Faso 2011 © Jessica Dimmock/VII Network

Severe flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, with the southeastern province of Sindh particularly badly hit.

A child is screened for malnutrition in Pakistan after the flooding.

Monsoon rains and floods continue to ravage southern Pakistan, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced and vulnerable in Sindh province....

Two children stand outside their temporary home in Sindh province, Pakistan

It has been six months since devastating floods swept through Pakistan in late July 2010, inundating large swathes of the country and causing...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Since last Tuesday, torrential rains have caused severe flooding in the mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro.

Country Year © Author/MSF

A long drought in Chad, followed by torrential rains, has destroyed crops, flooded wells and cut off villages. Weakened by malnutrition and...

Chad 2010 © Boris Revollo /MSF

A Northern Ireland doctor who has spent three weeks helping with the relief efforts in flood ravaged Pakistan has told of the utter devastation...

Two weeks after the first floods hit Pakistan the situation is extremely dire for millions of people. MSF is concerned at gaps in the relief...

© Ton Koene.  Dr. Majid treats a patient at Utmanzai mobile clinic

Responding to the floods in Pakistan, a helicopter assessment of areas cut off from aid reminded MSF’s emergency coordinator of the aftermath of...

Pakistan 2009 © Jobi Bieber MSF
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