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NEWS ABOUT: Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders stories: 15 news summaries

 In Coup-Torn Guinea, 
 Women Raped in Public 

Cell phone images harden opposition to military junta

Oct 6, 09 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the west African nation of Guinea, where a military junta seized power in 2008, 50,000 people attended a political demonstration in a stadium last week, where they were attacked by soldiers who shot and killed at least 157 unarmed people, according to human rights groups, and raped at... More »

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Africa • rape • Doctors Without Borders • junta • sexual violence • coup d'etat • Guinea

(Newser) - The Obama administration is thwarting poor countries' access to affordable drugs in order to win Big Pharma's support for health care reform, according to Doctors Without Borders and other NGOs. As the Los Angeles Times reports, governments from Asia to Latin America are feeling pressure from Washington on their use... More »

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drug companies • generic drugs • health care reform • Doctors Without Borders • HIV/AIDS • pharmaceutical industry • Obama administration • NGOs

Sudan Invites Aid Groups
Back to Darfur

After getting the boot in March, NGOs to return to troubled region

May 8, 09 7:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Sudanese government says it will invite new aid groups to work in Darfur and let the UN and other agencies expand their operations in the region. The announcement comes two months after Sudan expelled 13 NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, in the aftermath of the International Criminal Court's indictment... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Darfur • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • Doctors Without Borders • humanitarian organizations • humanitarian aid • International Criminal Court

ANALYSIS

 Darfur: Mass Bloodshed 
 May Not Be Genocide 


Despite the violence, Sudan crisis may not fit legal definition

May 4, 09 7:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of thousands of people have died or been displaced in the years-long conflict in Darfur, which presidents Bush and Obama have both called a genocide. But while nobody denies the seriousness of the violence, organizations from Doctors Without Borders to the International Criminal Court say that the Sudanese government's... More »

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Darfur • genocide • Sudan • Crisis in Darfur • Doctors Without Borders • Janjaweed

Abducted
Aid Workers
Freed in Darfur

Captives said to be safe, healthy; Sudan blames bandits

Mar 14, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The three Doctors Without Borders workers nabbed in Darfur three days ago have been released, the BBC reports. Both the UN and the doctors' group confirmed that the captives—a French administrator, a Canadian nurse, and an Italian doctor—are free. “They are safe. They are all right,”... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • kidnapping • Doctors Without Borders

Abducted Darfur Aid Workers Make Contact

Trio is unharmed; Sudan begins talks with kidnappers

Mar 13, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The three foreign-aid workers from Doctors Without Borders who were kidnapped earlier this week in Darfur contacted the group today to report they were unharmed, the New York Times says. Separately, Sudan’s government began ransom negotiations to free the workers, who had been protected by Sudanese guards. One official... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • kidnapping • Doctors Without Borders

 Doctors Without Borders 
 Staffers Kidnapped in Darfur 

Abductions follow Sudan crackdown

Mar 12, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three aid workers from Doctors Without Borders are being held hostage in Darfur after a group of armed men kidnapped them, Reuters reports. The three staff members, all Westerners, were seized along with two Sudanese co-workers who were later released. The kidnapping came as Sudan cracks down on NGOs in... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • kidnapping • Doctors Without Borders • Saraf Omra, Sudan

OPINION

The World's Worst Humanitarian Crises

Civil war and displacement fuel tragedies across the globe: aid group

Dec 23, 08 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has released its annual list of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Here's a sample:
  • Somalia: Increased friction between insurgents and the government unleashed some of the worst violence in a decade. One in five children there dies before turning 5.
  • Congo: Hundreds of
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Zimbabwe • Pakistan • HIV • list • humanitarian crisis • Doctors Without Borders • HIV/AIDS • Congo • Best of 2008

 Not Scared of TB? 
 You Should Be 

Resistant strain could ravage the world, and we're not ready

Dec 7, 08 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - "Global complacency" could give rise to a terrifying, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times—and not in some remote outpost on the globe. There have been fewer than 100 cases of this XDR-TB in the past 15 years in the US, but with... More »

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public health • Doctors Without Borders • Armenia • tuberculosis • pandemic • Nicholas Kristof • XDR-TB

Surgeon Amputates
Using Texted Instructions

Phone helps save Congolese teen

Dec 3, 08 5:11 PM CST
(Newser) - A volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never conducted such a procedure. He... More »

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medicine • cell phones • surgery • Democratic Republic of Congo • text message • Doctors Without Borders • Rwanda • amputation • rebel fighters

 Haiti School Collapse 
 Kills At Least 30 

Poor repair job, not recent rains, doomed building, mayor says

Nov 7, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not... More »

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Brazil • Haiti • Chile • school • Red Cross • collapse • Ecuador • Dominican Republic • Doctors Without Borders • engineering • disaster

 Burma Aid Delays
 Less Deadly Than Feared 

Villagers tough it out through cyclone's aftermath

Jun 18, 08 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Delays in getting help to cyclone survivors in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta have not caused the catastrophe initially feared, according to aid workers. Hardy villagers have managed to survive on fish and coconuts, helped by aid from private Burmese citizens and monks, reports the New York Times. Expected massive outbreaks of... More »

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cyclone • aid • Myanmar • Burma • Doctors Without Borders • junta • disaster zones • Cyclone Nargis • Irrawaddy Delta

Meet the Man Putting Paris
in Motion

Ex-socialist is now Sarko's buddy and France's star politician

Feb 3, 08 4:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Kouchner was once a card-carrying socialist hurling red ink at the American Embassy in Paris. Now, as France’s foreign minister, he’s President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-hand man, helping to rebuild long-strained ties with the US. He also may be France’s most popular politician. The New ... More »

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Middle East • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • United States • foreign policy • Bernard Kouchner • Doctors Without Borders

Ebola Outbreak Is Worst in Years

Doctors being airlifted into Congo to help combat outbreak

Sep 19, 07 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors are being airlifted into the Democratic Republic of Congo to help treat what may be the worst outbreak of Ebola virus in years, the Washington Post reports. Only nine cases of the disease have been confirmed in labs, but almost 550 are suspected, including 168 resulting in deaths. The... More »

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health care • Democratic Republic of Congo • virus • Ebola • Doctors Without Borders • outbreak

French Lefty
Makes an Unlikely Hawk

Kouchner pleases US with Iran rumblings,
but he's no sure thing

Sep 17, 07 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The founder of Doctors Without Borders might seem a peculiar mouthpiece for the new law-and-order regime of Nicolas Sarkozy, but Bernard Kouchner actually fits right in with France’s more muscular foreign policy tone. The surprise choice for foreign minister,  Kouchner is an anomaly, a Socialist who supports the... More »

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Iran • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • United States • Socialist Party • Bernard Kouchner • Doctors Without Borders • Iraq war

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