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Doctors Without Borders presses New Guinea government on rampant sexual violence
The president of Medecins Sans Frontieres pressed Papua New Guinea’s new government to address its epidemic levels of sexual and domestic violence Thursday, calling it a “humanitarian crisis”. Unni Karunakara was in the impoverished Pacific nation to visit MSF projects targeting family and sexual violence and met with officials from…
1,000 women a day die in childbirth, says Doctors Without Borders
About 1,000 women die each day in childbirth or from preventable complications related to pregnancy, humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said Thursday. “Worldwide, at any time, 15 percent of pregnancies incur the risk of a potential fatal complication,” said Kara Blackburn, responsible for women’s health at MSF…
Gunman kills two foreign aid workers in Mogadishu attack
MOGADISHU — A gunman killed two foreign aid workers after opening fire at a Doctors Without Borders compound in Mogadishu on Thursday, police and medics said. Somali security forces arrested the man, a witness told AFP, while a police officer identified him as a Somali employee with Medicins Sans Frontieres…
Kenya ‘to pursue kidnappers into Somalia’
Kenya’s military will pursue Somali gunmen across the frontier who they say are responsible for a spate of kidnappings of foreigners, the internal security minister said Saturday. “Our territorial integrity is threatened with serious security threats of terrorism, we cannot allow this to happen at all,” said Internal Security Minister…
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