Ethiopia: Inside MSF’s Global Centre of Excellence for Snakebite Treatment
May 19, 2026In the remote town of Midre Genet, in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) runs the organisation’s largest snakebite treatment programme worldwide, the Abdurafi/Midre Genet Treatment Centre. MSF has been working in the Amhara region since 2003, supporting patients affected by diseases that often remain overlooked despite their...
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Somalia/Ethiopia: Drought and displacement push millions to the brink
May 12, 2026Four consecutive failed rainy seasons have driven a severe drought emergency across Somalia, pushing millions into acute food insecurity and forcing millions more from their homes. As humanitarian funding collapses, the last remaining lifelines are now at risk of being cut. An...
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Ethiopia: MSF expands presence to support health services and outbreak preparedness
February 13, 2026Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – February 2025: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a new emergency health project in South West Ethiopia Region, marking the beginning of a stable operational Emergency presence in the Southwest Region. The project started in 2025...
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Ethiopia: Delivering lifesaving nutrition across one of its harshest landscapes
January 22, 2026Once you leave the city of Semera behind, the Ethiopian landscape quickly opens into vast stretches of dry earth that seem to run endlessly toward the horizon. Sparse green bushes dot the dusty ground, framed by distant mountains and volcanoes...
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Ethiopia: first R21 malaria vaccine rollout, a global first in a refugee camp
December 16, 2025Addis Ababa – 15 December 2025Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has completed the first full round of R21 malaria vaccine in Ethiopia, and the first ever completed in a refugee camp globally. In Kule refugee camp, in Gambella region, home to...
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Life after conflict: Why mental health care in Tigray cannot wait
October 10, 2025Tigray, Ethiopia – 7 October 2025 - Three years after the cessation of hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, communities continue to face the devastating consequences of violence, displacement, and the collapse of essential services. In this region in...
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Bringing the water system back to life in Tigray, Ethiopia
August 8, 2023MSF provides clean water to Aby Aday IDP camp in Sheraro, Tigray. MSF re-started activities in Tigray in November 2022. Water and sanitation activities are a key priority to prevent the spreading of water borne diseases. In Sheraro, MSF team...
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Why is cholera killing hundreds across the Horn of Africa when it is so preventable?
July 14, 2023Cholera outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency, and lasting for longer, across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Tetiana Gaviuk, communications manager of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) questions in this piece why the death toll from...
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Ethiopia: MSF calls for immediate resumption of food distribution
July 7, 2023Addis Ababa, 06 July, 2023 – As malnutrition rates surge beyond emergency levels in many areas of Ethiopia, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for the immediate resumption of food distributions which were suspended across Ethiopia...
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Ethiopia: “We don’t know where it comes from but it kills a lot of people”
March 27, 2023Emergency alert In late 2022, MSF’s team in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia received an alert about an usually high number of deaths in the south Omo Valley among an isolated group of people from the...
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MSF raises alert over alarming indications of large-scale nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region
June 10, 2022The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing alarming indications of a deadly and escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region, requiring an urgent scale-up of the humanitarian response. In Afar, hundreds of thousands of people have fled...
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Ethiopia: MSF seeks answers from government after new media report on killing of its staff
March 18, 2022On 24 June 2021, three Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members were killed in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. MSF has searched for answers to why they were killed and by whomever since. The New York Times has today published an article...
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