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The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.The group said Friday the attack leaves 100,000 people without medical care in South Sudan's Jonglei state.MSF — as the group is also known — said its hospital infrastructure was systematically damaged in last weekend's attack. The hospital is the only facility in Pibor Country. The nearest alternative facility is 90 miles (145 kilometers) away.MSF did not blame a group for the attack. It noted that the facility has treated government soldiers and that region suffers from a conflict between government troops and an anti-government militia led by David Yau Yau. The government accuses Sudan of arming Yau Yau's rebellion....
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The aid group Doctors Without Borders says the first victim of the latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda was a 3-month-old girl and that of the 65 people who attended her ...
The European aid group Doctors Without Borders said Monday it has been prevented from providing essential medical services because of tensions between Buddhists and ...
Doctors on the ground in Haiti are reporting a dire need for medical attention in the stricken Caribbean nation as it copes with the chaos and devastation of Tuesday...
Despite intensive aerial bombardments by French warplanes, Islamist insurgents grabbed more territory in Mali Monday and moved closer to the capital, French and Mali...
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Activists say Syrian troops are fighting rebels over a government intelligence complex and a major prison where opposition figures are reportedly being held in the o...
Syrian rebels stormed a government intelligence complex in the oil-rich east of the country on Tuesday, freeing at least 11 people held in a prison at the facility, ...
A Nobel Peace Prize-winning medical group says Syria's health system has been shattered during the more than two-year conflict and that their organization plans to n...
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Doctors Without Borders complained on Tuesday that a fifth planeload of its emergency medical aid for earthquake survivors was denied permission to land at the U.S.-...
Doctors Without Borders says Morocco has expelled hundreds of illegal immigrants, including women and children, to a no-man's-land without food or water after violen...
CAIRO (AP) — Aid group Doctors Without Borders said it has been forced to suspend work in a volatile part of South Sudan because of attacks against his staff, as vio...
Armed men stormed an aid agency compound in Darfur and kidnapped three Westerners, heightening fears that foreigners will be targeted in the backlash over the intern...