Israel keeps up Gaza bombardment as ceasefire talks intensify
Cairo, Egypt Reuters US and Arab mediators are working round-the-clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said, while in the Gaza Strip medics said Israeli strikes had killed 41 Palestinians on Thursday. The mediators, at talks in Egypt and Qatar, are trying to forge a deal […]
Armed men attack Haiti hospital as violence shows no signs of abating
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Armed men attacked and partially destroyed a hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a hospital director told Reuters on Tuesday, amid a wave of escalating violence that prompted Doctors Without Borders to suspend operations in Haiti last month. The bandits set the Bernard Mevs hospital on fire on Monday night, destroying four operating […]
Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital as more than two dozen killed on attack on suburb
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday that it is stopping operations across the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and its wider metropolitan area due to an escalation in violence and threats to its staff from members of the Haitian police. The suspension would last from Wednesday “until further notice”, said MSF. A general […]
Doctors Without Borders ambulance in Haiti attacked, two patients killed
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday that at least two patients were killed when its ambulance was stopped and attacked earlier this week in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. The MSF staff said they were violently attacked on Monday after “members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers” stopped the ambulance. The […]
Thousands trapped in Jabalia camp as Israel escalates deadly attacks in northern Gaza
Reuters Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza’s Jabalia camp as Israeli forces attack the area, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said on Friday, a week after Israel launched an offensive there which it says is aimed at stopping Hamas regrouping. At least 20 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were wounded late on […]
Pope Francis says refusing aid to migrants a “grave sin”
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis on Wednesday strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe, saying it was a “grave sin” not to offer aid to migrant vessels. “There are those who work systematically and with every means to reject migrants,” the pontiff said during his weekly general audience in […]
Civilians suffering horrendous violence in Sudan conflict, MSF says
Amman, Jordan Reuters Civilians in Sudan have suffered horrendous levels of violence during more than a year of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, facing repeated attacks, abuse and exploitation by both sides, the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday. The physical and mental wounds of violence […]
So close to death: NGO captain recounts migrant sea rescue
Rome, Italy Reuters Saving migrants from one of the shipwrecks that have left dozens dead or missing off Italy’s shores involved walking through bodies to find barely alive survivors, the NGO captain involved in one of the rescues said on Tuesday. One boat with 51 survivors and 10 bodies was intercepted about 90 kilometres south […]
UN Security Council demands halt to siege of Sudan city of 1.8 million people
United Nations Reuters The United Nations Security Council on Thursday demanded a halt to the siege of al-Fashir – a city of 1.8 million people in Sudan’s North Darfur region – by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and an immediate end to fighting in the area. The 15-member council adopted a British-drafted resolution that […]
Sudan’s al-Fashir main hospital shut after RSF attack, aid group says
Cairo, Egypt Reuters The main hospital in Sudan’s al-Fashir city has been attacked by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the facility, told Reuters on Sunday. The city, in the Darfur region of north-western Sudan, is home to more than 1.8 million residents and displaced […]