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Médecins Sans Frontières, aka Doctors Without Borders (1971)

How Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is responding to the crisis in Sudan

Fighting that began in the spring of 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has wrought devastation across Sudan, forcing millions of people from their homes and driving the country’s health care system to collapse.

One year on, more than 15,000 people have been killed and Sudan has become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world, with more than 6.6 million people displaced within its borders. Two million more have fled to neighboring countries like Chad and South Sudan.

Author: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Date Published: June 18th, 2024

Originally published on: Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical humanitarian aid in Sudan since 1979, and our teams continue to work across the country amidst the current conflict. Over the past year, they have borne witness to a massive crisis that is unfolding largely outside the world’s headlines while humanitarian aid is falling far short of meeting the spiraling needs.

Fighting breaks out in Khartoum April 15

Violence erupts between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan. Over the next 48 hours, MSF receives 136 wounded patients at the hospital we support in El Fasher, North Darfur, 11 of whom die from their injuries.