(UN News Centre) – Senior United Nations officials have condemned today’s attack at a mosque in Kabul that reportedly killed at least 32 civilians and injured more than 50 others, many of them children. “The Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon] condemns today’s attack in Kabul targeting civilians gathered for worship,” said his spokesman in a statement, noting that […]
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(Al Jazeera) – Fighting in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz has forced many hospital staff to flee, officials said on Thursday, further jeopardising medical care for hundreds of people. Street-to-street gun battles have continued for four days after Taliban fighters slipped past the city’s defences on Monday. The fighting has forced as many as 10,000 people from […]
(The Guardian) – It’s dangerous to be a doctor in Afghanistan. This is what the staff deal with most days at a hospital in the country’s north-west: physical attacks by patients’ relatives; gun-wielding soldiers inside the wards; and verbal assaults and threats of bodily harm against doctors and nurses who are only trying to help. An Afghan surgeon […]
(Medecins Sans Frontieres) – Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is remembering one of the darkest moments in its history. On 3 October 2015, U.S. airstrikes killed 42 people and destroyed the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. As we grieve the loss of our colleagues and patients, we are left with the question: is it still […]
