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A brief check on her home in the southern suburbs of Beirut⬇️

MSF field communications manager Maryam Srour recorded her experience traveling back to collect some belongings. “There was no way of knowing if the house was still standing,” she said. The area where she used to live is now heavily damaged and largely abandoned. Luckily, Maryam's home was still there.

Most of MSF’s staff in Lebanon are displaced, as are the patients they serve, but like Maryam they continue to show up to provide urgent health care, distribute relief items, and support hospitals and health centers.

A joint US-Israeli military assault on Iran at the end of February triggered a sharp escalation in violence across the region. Israel then renewed a massive bombing campaign across several areas of Lebanon and issued mass evacuation orders, forcibly displacing more than a million people.

“We did what we could. Remember us.”  

These words were written by Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila on October 20th, on a whiteboard normally used for planning surgeries.

He was killed by a strike on Al Awda Hospital on November 21st in #Gaza

The same strike killed another MSF doctor, Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar, as well as a doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari. Other medical staff were severely injured. 

“Remember us."

This #muststopnow. We need a #ceasefirenow

“We did what we could. Remember us.”  

These words were written by Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila on October 20th, on a whiteboard normally used for planning surgeries.

He was killed by a strike on Al Awda Hospital on November 21st in #Gaza

The same strike killed another MSF doctor, Dr. Ahmad Al Sahar, as well as a doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari. Other medical staff were severely injured. 

“Remember us."

This #muststopnow. We need a #ceasefirenow

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

Bundibugyo virus: Swipe through to read what's different about this outbreak and some of the challenges our teams anticipate facing.

🎥 MSF teams train staff at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma, North Kivu province, on how to work in an Ebola environment.

For people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola disease outbreak comes on top of years of violence; displacement; and limited access to medical care, clean water, and other essential services.

Ebola disease is particularly hard on caretakers and communities — the family members caring for loved ones; the health workers treating their neighbors, the people providing compassion.

This disease puts helpers at risk.

As the world reacts to developing news about the outbreak, don’t forget about the human beings living through it.

Understanding the Ebola disease outbreak in DR Congo ⤵️

Ebola is an infectious viral hemorrhagic fever, transmitted to humans through direct contact with blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of infected animals. Human-to-human transmission occurs through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected people.

The current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, which is distinct from the more common Zaire virus in that there is no approved vaccine, and no approved treatment.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are preparing to rapidly scale up medical and operational support in affected areas alongside the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, and local actors to strengthen surveillance, patient care, infection prevention and control, and community engagement efforts aimed at containing the outbreak as quickly as possible.

But these efforts are made harder by limited diagnostic tools to quickly confirm cases and contain the spread of this virus.

In this video, MSF vaccination and epidemic response advisor John Johnson explains why this Ebola disease outbreak is especially urgent and challenging to control.

Since 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in South Sudan has suffered 12 attacks, forcing the closure of four hospitals and the suspension of medical activities in Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Central Equatoria states. 
MSF calls on the South Sudanese authorities to provide immediate and transparent explanations for the bombing of Old Fangak Hospital, to ensure accountability, and take concrete measures to protect medical facilities, staff, and patients. MSF continues to call for the protection of medical facilities and humanitarian workers, and we remain committed to engaging with all parties to prevent further attacks and safeguard humanitarian access.   
Attacks on medical facilities, health care workers, and civilians are unacceptable and must end.

May 19: Cargo flight arrived in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo. Protective equipment is going to be a huge relief for staff. 
 
MSF has vast experience in responding to Ebola disease outbreaks and we are mobilizing teams of medical, logistical, and support staff and dispatching supplies in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in collaboration with the Congolese health authorities. We are also in contact with the Ugandan Ministry of Health, with teams standing by to provide support. 
 
It’s important to recognize that the DR Congo is not starting from zero. Congolese health authorities, local health care workers, researchers, and communities have been at the forefront of some of the world’s most complex Ebola responses, often under extremely difficult circumstances.

It’s also critical to ensure continued access to non-Ebola-related care for people in affected areas. #Bundibugyovirus #Ituri #congo

In 2015, a United States warplane struck Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, killing 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. It was the single largest and deadliest attack on MSF in history. In the months following, MSF and other groups pushed the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2286, which reaffirms hospitals’ protections under International Humanitarian Law and calls for an end to impunity for those responsible.

Ten years later, however, States have failed to uphold their commitments, as the number of attacks on medical and humanitarian action continues to grow.

Now, as we mark a decade since its adoption, MSF calls on states to respect their obligations and commitments under Resolution 2286 for greater protection and accountability.

In 2015, a United States warplane struck Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, killing 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. It was the single largest and deadliest attack on MSF in history. In the months following, MSF and other groups pushed the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2286, which reaffirms hospitals’ protections under International Humanitarian Law and calls for an end to impunity for those responsible.

Ten years later, however, States have failed to uphold their commitments, as the number of attacks on medical and humanitarian action continues to grow.

Now, as we mark a decade since its adoption, MSF calls on states to respect their obligations and commitments under Resolution 2286 for greater protection and accountability.

In 2015, a United States warplane struck Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, killing 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. It was the single largest and deadliest attack on MSF in history. In the months following, MSF and other groups pushed the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2286, which reaffirms hospitals’ protections under International Humanitarian Law and calls for an end to impunity for those responsible.

Ten years later, however, States have failed to uphold their commitments, as the number of attacks on medical and humanitarian action continues to grow.

Now, as we mark a decade since its adoption, MSF calls on states to respect their obligations and commitments under Resolution 2286 for greater protection and accountability.

In 2015, a United States warplane struck Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, killing 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. It was the single largest and deadliest attack on MSF in history. In the months following, MSF and other groups pushed the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2286, which reaffirms hospitals’ protections under International Humanitarian Law and calls for an end to impunity for those responsible.

Ten years later, however, States have failed to uphold their commitments, as the number of attacks on medical and humanitarian action continues to grow.

Now, as we mark a decade since its adoption, MSF calls on states to respect their obligations and commitments under Resolution 2286 for greater protection and accountability.

In 2015, a United States warplane struck Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, killing 42 people, including 14 MSF staff. It was the single largest and deadliest attack on MSF in history. In the months following, MSF and other groups pushed the UN Security Council to adopt Resolution 2286, which reaffirms hospitals’ protections under International Humanitarian Law and calls for an end to impunity for those responsible.

Ten years later, however, States have failed to uphold their commitments, as the number of attacks on medical and humanitarian action continues to grow.

Now, as we mark a decade since its adoption, MSF calls on states to respect their obligations and commitments under Resolution 2286 for greater protection and accountability.

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo update⬇️

▪️The Bundibugyo strain is distinct in that there is no approved vaccine or treatment.
▪️Doctors Without Borders currently has teams in the affected areas of Ituri to assess medical needs, and is coordinating closely with the Congolese health authorities. 
▪️We’ll also work to ensure strict prevention measures are in place in existing projects in order to protect our staff, our patients, and their access to health care.  
▪️Emergency preparedness supplies includes hemorrhagic fever response kits containing sampling materials, small isolation kits and protective equipment ready for rapid deployment.

If there is no will to stop the bombing of hospitals, the targeting of our colleagues, and the killing of our patients today, what chance do we stand when warfare becomes faster, more automated, and further removed from human judgment?

This week is protection of civilians week. From South Sudan to Gaza, to Ukraine, to Sudan, hospitals and health workers are under attack. Doctors and nurses are targeted. Patients are killed. Clinics and hospitals are destroyed.

And it's happening more often than ever.

The past couple of years have seen a sharp rise in the number of humanitarian workers killed while trying to provide aid and health care.

Targeting hospitals and healthcare workers violates international law — and strikes at the heart of humanity. #NotaTarget

If there is no will to stop the bombing of hospitals, the targeting of our colleagues, and the killing of our patients today, what chance do we stand when warfare becomes faster, more automated, and further removed from human judgment?

This week is protection of civilians week. From South Sudan to Gaza, to Ukraine, to Sudan, hospitals and health workers are under attack. Doctors and nurses are targeted. Patients are killed. Clinics and hospitals are destroyed.

And it's happening more often than ever.

The past couple of years have seen a sharp rise in the number of humanitarian workers killed while trying to provide aid and health care.

Targeting hospitals and healthcare workers violates international law — and strikes at the heart of humanity. #NotaTarget

If there is no will to stop the bombing of hospitals, the targeting of our colleagues, and the killing of our patients today, what chance do we stand when warfare becomes faster, more automated, and further removed from human judgment?

This week is protection of civilians week. From South Sudan to Gaza, to Ukraine, to Sudan, hospitals and health workers are under attack. Doctors and nurses are targeted. Patients are killed. Clinics and hospitals are destroyed.

And it's happening more often than ever.

The past couple of years have seen a sharp rise in the number of humanitarian workers killed while trying to provide aid and health care.

Targeting hospitals and healthcare workers violates international law — and strikes at the heart of humanity. #NotaTarget

“The number of cases and deaths we are seeing in such a short timeframe, combined with the spread across several health zones and now across the border, is extremely concerning."

Right now, we're mobilizing more teams comprising medical, logistical, and support staff experienced in responding to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks, as well as essential supplies, to launch a large-scale response as quickly as possible.

We will also work to ensure strict prevention measures are in place in existing projects in order to protect our staff, our patients, and their access to health care.

Link in bio to read our press release.
#ebola #ebolaoutbreak #publichealth #congolese

“The number of cases and deaths we are seeing in such a short timeframe, combined with the spread across several health zones and now across the border, is extremely concerning."

Right now, we're mobilizing more teams comprising medical, logistical, and support staff experienced in responding to viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks, as well as essential supplies, to launch a large-scale response as quickly as possible.

We will also work to ensure strict prevention measures are in place in existing projects in order to protect our staff, our patients, and their access to health care.

Link in bio to read our press release.
#ebola #ebolaoutbreak #publichealth #congolese

No matter which word we highlight, the message is clear. Sudan: The world must act now, not later. This is a war on people. It’s the world’s largest displacement crisis.

The suffering in Sudan is not just a humanitarian emergency — it’s a political failure on a collective global scale. The humanitarian response is underfunded, deprioritized, and stalled by a lack of political will, both internationally and within Sudan.

Indifference and inaction cannot become our legacy as humanity.

#TalkAboutSudan
React.
Act.
Boldly. With empathy.

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Photos: @moisessaman / Magnum

No matter which word we highlight, the message is clear. Sudan: The world must act now, not later. This is a war on people. It’s the world’s largest displacement crisis.

The suffering in Sudan is not just a humanitarian emergency — it’s a political failure on a collective global scale. The humanitarian response is underfunded, deprioritized, and stalled by a lack of political will, both internationally and within Sudan.

Indifference and inaction cannot become our legacy as humanity.

#TalkAboutSudan
React.
Act.
Boldly. With empathy.

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Photos: @moisessaman / Magnum