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Hunger strikers in Washington put While House in a bind   2009/09/19 04:26:33
Friday, 18 September 2009   BY BRIAN KNOWLTON Source: The International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON - By Wednesday, the 50th day of their hunger strike, Zolal Habibi said she had lost 20 pounds, Zahra Rashidi reported losing 25, Hamid Goudarzi, 26, and Mehran Ebrahimi, 33,  ... Read more ...

Click to Enter Refugee Camp On The Web   2009/09/16 12:24:36
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/events/refugeecamp/guide/index.cfm   Let‘s you virtually experience life in a refugee camp.

News From the Field: Doctos Without Borders, (MSF)   2009/09/10 08:01:54
For those caught in the fighting in Pakistan, it is ‘too dangerous to stay, even more dangerous to go‘ Chris Lockyear spent most of 2008/9 as MSF head of mission to Pakistan. This was his sixth mission with MSF, following periods in Somalia, North Sudan and Darfur.In one of  ... Read more ...

Missing MSF Staff Member Safely Released in Chad   2009/09/02 10:27:32
Field News Missing MSF Staff Member Safely Released in Chad September 1, 2009 A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, who went missing following an armed robbery at the MSF compound in Adé in the east of Chad, has been safely released.    ... Read more ...

Darfur’s Rebels Should Unite Ahead of Peace Talks, U.S. Says   2009/08/23 14:14:51
      By Moyiga Nduru Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Rebel movements in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region should unite ahead of talks with the government to promote a single message, U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, said. “Civil society must also speak up so that  ... Read more ...

Beyond Cholera: Zimbabwe's Worsening Crisis   2009/08/18 13:56:37
Everyday, Zimbabweans cross the Limpopo River into South Africa, risking their lives to flee their country. An estimated 3 million Zimbabweans have sought refuge in South Africa. It is Africa‘s most extraordinary exodus from a country not in open conflict. The political crisis and resultant  ... Read more ...

Rise and fall of African textile industry provides cautionary tale March 15, 2005   2009/08/17 12:40:04
 By Sapa-AP By Tom Maliti Nairobi - The African textile and clothing industry‘s near fairy tale of jobs and investments growing year after year is ending badly, turning into a cautionary fable of the challenges of global trade. When the World Trade Organisation‘s textile and  ... Read more ...

Secretary of State Clinton Takes On Congo's Sexual Violence   2009/08/15 09:36:20
Secretary of State Clinton Takes On Congo‘s Sexual Violence and Conflict Minerals Trade Yesterday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu in eastern Congo, the site of the deadliest war since World War II.  In a meeting with  ... Read more ...

Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict   2009/08/14 13:13:53
Aug. 10, 2009    Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should focus on the fuel which drives the violence in Congo, the conflict minerals extracted from the eastern war zone and widely used by our consumer electronics industry.  ... Read more ...

Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict   2009/08/14 13:04:36
Aug. 10, 2009    Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should focus on the fuel which drives the violence in Congo, the conflict minerals extracted from the eastern war zone and widely used by our consumer electronics industry.  ... Read more ...

Liberia: "Sexual violence is a stain on our society"   2009/08/13 15:29:41
Voice from the Field Liberia: "Sexual violence is a stain on our society" Donate to Doctors Without Borders August 10, 2009 Liberia 2006 © Sofie Stevens/MSF Portrait of a 14-year-old who was raped by her step-father in Monrovia. “Sexual violence is a stain on our  ... Read more ...

Greek MSF aidworker missing in Darfur   2009/08/11 11:15:05
Greek MSF aidworker missing in Darfur Posted on | August 11, 2009 | EL GENEINA (11 August) – Authorities of the Chadian border town Adé and Goz Beida close to Darfur (Sudan) have confirmed the disappearance of a Greek international aid worker of Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) since  ... Read more ...

Aid workers lost in fog of political games   2009/08/09 11:06:02
WORLD VIEW: IT’S WHERE Arab faces off against African, Islam with Christianity, nomads with farmers, and old ethnic and tribal hatreds bubble up. Where three bitter conflicts divide a state into west, south and east, in Africa’s largest country. Where, despite oil discovered in  ... Read more ...

MSF Continues to Provide Care in Violent Areas of Northern DRC and Southern Sudan   2009/08/07 05:11:08
Field News MSF Continues to Provide Care in Violent Areas of Northern DRC and Southern Sudan August 3, 2009 Sudan 2009 © Brendan Bannon A mother and son, Congolese refugees, receive treatment for malnutrition at a MSF health center in Naandi, Southern Sudan. Video Southern  ... Read more ...

Two MSF Aid Workers Missing in Chad   2009/08/06 19:55:59
Field News Two MSF Aid Workers Missing in Chad August 6, 2009 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that during the night of August 4, 2009, one of the MSF compounds in Chad was robbed by armed assailants. After the robbery, one international and one  ... Read more ...

Tawila, North Darfur: “Now it’s known as a place that was brutally destroyed”   2009/08/03 09:07:07
Tawila, North Darfur: “Now it’s known as a place that was brutally destroyed” June 1, 2008 Sudan 2006 © Jehad Nga Children wait with their family’s donkeys on the edge of Rwanda Camp near Tawila, North Darfur. Chris Sauer, a fire chief in the Lake Tahoe area  ... Read more ...

Hilda Kawuki and Sharon Commins: Held Ransom in Darfur   2009/07/29 13:08:47
Hilda Kawuki and Sharon Commins: Held Ransom in Darfur by JONATHAN HARRIS, Managing Editor Causecast has been outspoken in our support of detained American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea after being arrested on their border. It’s a  ... Read more ...

Sexual violence against Darfuri-women out of control   2009/07/28 12:18:01
Sunday, July 26, 2009 Sexual violence against Darfuri-women out of control Donate J.E. RobertsonLife for women in Darfuri refugee camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad is extremely hard. Many have no access to any public authority that will investigate violence against women, and medical  ... Read more ...

MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow An interview with MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow.   2009/07/27 18:37:42
Colombia: Life in the Shadow of Violence Donate Today at 9:03am MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow An interview with MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow. In Colombia, hundreds of thousands of people live in a state of permanent displacement. The violent conflict to which the country’s  ... Read more ...

From: MSF In The News   2009/07/23 13:42:29
Surge in violence pushes Ethiopia, Somalia to crisis point Donate to MSF at My Superfood For The Hungry Campaign. By Peter Goodspeed, reprinted with permission from the National PostPublished: Friday 18 July 2008. Killings, kidnappings and the threat of famine are turning the Horn of  ... Read more ...