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Italy comes under fire for illegally rejecting migrants rescued at sea

Selective and partial disembarkation "cannot be considered legal under maritime law conventions," says Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors without Borders halts some operations in Haiti due to gang violence

Gang-related kidnappings in Haiti increased 180 percent in the past year, with 655 of them reported to police, according to a report by the United Nations Security Council.

Hunger strike by migrants puts Belgian govt in danger of collapse

Socialists and the Greens, two of the seven coalition parties, said that if any migrants die, they will quit the coalition, which will leave the current government unable to survive.

MSF 'horrified' as medical charity workers murdered in Ethiopia

Doctors Without Borders says it is “horrified by the brutal murder” of three colleagues in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the latest attack on humanitarian workers helping civilians in the deadly conflict there.

Yemen crisis is worsening and the world must act now, say aid workers

The Arab world’s poorest country has been in the midst of a perpetual humanitarian disaster for years but the situation can get even worse.

‘Alarming’ malnutrition reported in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says 26.6 percent of children screened at remote clinics in recent weeks throughout Ethiopia’s northwest region of Tigray were malnourished.

Over 100 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck

Some 130 migrants bound for Europe are missing off the Libyan coast after a rubber boat reported it was in distress, independent rescue groups say.

Second Ebola vaccine introduced in Democratic Republic of Congo

The vaccine is supposed to complement the Merck vaccine which has been administered to 250,000 people since the 2018 Ebola outbreak and will be administered to an additional 50,000.

UN reaches aid warehouses on Yemen frontlines, seeks $4.2 bn

Significant donations came from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the two main countries in a coalition supporting the government side in Yemen's conflict.

At least 6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar violence - MSF

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) survey finds that at least 6,700 Muslim Rohingya were killed by Myanmar's military in the first month of a violent crackdown in Rakhine State which began in late August.

MSF says cholera crisis in Yemen could be waning, but many still at risk

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is closing most of its 37 cholera treatment centres in Yemen, saying the epidemic appears to have peaked. But thousands are still at risk, including unborn babies.

More NGOs halt Mediterranean rescue operations after Libya "threats"

Save the Children and Germany's Sea Watch join MSF in suspending rescue work, citing the "hostile" stance of the Libyan coastguard.