MSF Facilities Looted, Medical Activities Impeded By Violence in Sudan: Sudan conflict MSF humanitariancrisis
Médecins Sans Frontières condemns the unacceptable harassment of our staff and the violent looting and occupation of our medical premises and supported facilities in Sudan. Staff and patients are repeatedly facing the trauma of armed groups entering and looting MSF premises, with medicines, supplies and vehicles being stolen.
We are experiencing a violation of humanitarian principles and the space for humanitarians to work is shrinking on a scale I've rarely seen before. Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, MSF's Emergency Coordinator in Sudan"We are experiencing a violation of humanitarian principles and the space for humanitarians to work is shrinking on a scale I've rarely seen before," says Jean-Nicolas Armstrong Dangelser, MSF's Emergency Coordinator in Sudan.
There have been multiple incidents affecting MSF premises in Sudan since the conflict started, including:
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