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The death of a three-month-old infant is now being investigated inside the site

Hundreds of asylum seekers sleep outside Dutch centre

Almost 700 asylum seekers in the Netherlands have been left sleeping in unsanitary conditions outside a reception centre for weeks, in what a humanitarian NGO has called a "perfect storm" of poor government planning and a housing crisis.

World • 26 Aug 22

The body said it was evacuating all international staff in the wake of air strikes and violence

MSF suspending activities in northeast Syria

Médecins Sans Frontières has said it has suspended most of its medical aid activities in northeast Syria.

World • 15 Oct 19

Migrants resting on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea

Refugees should not be sent back to Libya - MSF

The international head of MSF has described conditions in Libyan detention camps as "a nightmare" and said refugees should not be sent back there but should be rescued from Libya.

World • 30 Jun 19

Children waiting at the clinic with their parents

The makeshift clinic offering a 'lifeline' to refugees

RTÉ's Dimitri O'Donnell and cameraman Stuart Halligan met parents and children being offered a 'lifeline' by a clinic near the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos.

World • 30 Jan 19

The MV Aquarius had been used to rescue migrants from the sea in recent times

Italy orders seizure of migrant rescue ship

Italy has ordered the seizure of migrant rescue ship Aquarius for alleged illegal waste treatment, Doctors without Borders said today.

Europe • 20 Nov 18

War Wounds Series2 EP11

"Even though these are some of the more traumatic parts of life that I have experienced, they are some of the places I've felt the closest to humanity."

Voices • 20 Sep 17

MSF seeks probe into bombing of Syria hospital

The Médecins Sans Frontières medical charity has called for an independent investigation into air strikes that killed 25 people at an MSF-backed hospital in north Syria early this week.

News • 18 Feb 16

22 people died when Kunduz hospital was bombed at the weekend

Obama calls head of MSF to apologise over bombing

US President Barack Obama has called the head of Médecins Sans Frontières to apologise for the US air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

News • 07 Oct 15