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Everyday Emergency
Welcome to Everyday Emergency, a podcast by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). We bring you true stories and expert insight from people on the frontline of humanitarian events. From the conflicts that hit the headlines to underreported crises, we’ll be talking to our medical,...
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Ukraine: From bylines to the frontlines
In February 2022, Yuliia Trofimova was a journalist living in Eastern Ukraine, where she’s from. With the violent escalation of the conflict with Russ...
"We built a hospital in a house": An MSF medic returns from Syria
War has taken a heavy toll on the people of Syria.
Since 2011, 14 million Syrians have had to flee the violence that wracked the country....
The E-Team: Inside MSF's emergency response unit with Dr Natalie Roberts
When a crisis hits, our emergency specialists - known as the E-Team - launch into life-saving action to coordinate the response.
In this...
AMR: A threat hidden in plain sight
In places where MSF operates, getting access to the right antibiotics is a matter of life or death.
Antibiotics are the cornerstone of mo...
Eastern DRC: Critical care in a complex place
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, we’re looking at the humanitarian crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC – a huge...
The Debrief: Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on the crisis in Sudan
Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe from what? <...
The Debrief: Chris Lockyear, MSF Secretary General
In crisis zones across the world, hospitals have been attacked, supply trucks blockaded and funding cut. So, what is the state of humanitarian aid tod...
Rebuilding lives: Inside a specialist war-wound hospital
At a groundbreaking hospital in the Jordanian capital Amman, a dedicated team from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) work to tr...
Episode 9: Speaking out in a time of kidnapping
In August 2002, the threat to MSF becomes a reality and another Coordinator, a Dutch national, is kidnapped in Dagestan.
The organisatio...
Episode 8: A Deliberate Strategy of Non-Assistance
The situation in the North Caucasus is getting more and more violent as the Russian federal authorities is trying to forcibly repatriate Chechen refug...
Episode 7: Anti-terrorist rhetoric
MSF’s operations have been closed down in Chechnya in response to the MSF Coordinator’s kidnapping. After his release, three weeks later, MSF tries t...
Episode 6: 'Kidnapped by mistake'
Kidnappings are becoming more commonplace in Chechnya and closer to home for MSF as various staff members are held for questioning. Then, a key member...
Episode 5: All on the same page
MSF’s operations in Chechnya are slowly starting back up again after 3 years of being run remotely. Although the bombing stops, general insecurity is...
Episode 4: A cautious re-entry to Chechnya
Throughout the year 2000, MSF seizes every opportunity to raise the alarm on the Chechen’s fate with governments and institutions around the world, bu...
Episode 3: Advocacy without access
With hostilities in Chechnya flaring up again in what the Russian Federation terms as “anti-terrorist operations”, MSF leaders decide to use the cerem...
Episode 2: A Far Cry from Peace
While the Russian Federation President, Boris Yeltsin talks publicly about a peace plan, his forces carry out a ruthless bombing campaign on rebel-hel...
Episode 1: The First War in Chechnya
The first war of independence of Chechnya with the Russian Federation starts in 1994 and runs for two years. In 1999, while the country and its people...
Syria: "Between Two Fires" - Danger and Desperation in Al-Hol
Warning: This episode contains testimony related to child deaths that some listeners may find distressing.
A new report by MSF lays bare...
Episode 8: Learning from retrospective reports
From mid-1997, MSF teams try to work together again. The organisation publishes retrospective studies that trace the odyssey of the Rwandan refugees t...
Episode 7: The ‘Forced Flight’ report
In May 1997, MSF published a new study describing the movements of refugees in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the fate of refugees. MSF planned...
Episode 6: Silent vs public advocacy
MSF's exploratory mission teams complete their reports on their Masisi and Shabunda visits. Details of mass graves, massacres, and the fact that the A...
Episode 5: Forest exodus
The ADFL takes control of all of the Kivu province and refugees continue to flee their rapid advance eastwards through the forest. MSF struggles to m...
Episode 4: Humanitarians used as bait
Finally allowed into South Kivu, a province in eastern Zaire, the MSF teams discover that refugees are being massacred by the ADFL and its allies, par...
Episode 3: Under fire in the press
In November 1996, the offensive led by the ADFL and Rwandan forces empties the camps in eastern Zaire of their population. Some refugees were repatria...
Episode 2: Information war over refugee numbers
As the instability of the region increases, MSF and other humanitarian organisations are eventually forced out of eastern Zaire entirely. MSF suspect...
Episode 1: Resumption of war in eastern Zaire
In 1996, MSF attempts to alert the international community about the resurgence of conflict in eastern Zaire, as witnessed by teams on the ground. The...
Climate Crisis = Health Crisis: A COP26 debrief with MSF
In this episode of Everyday Emergency, we'll listen in on a discussion about COP26, why MSF was a part of it, and what the MSF delegates attending the...
South Sudan: Voices from Bentiu
On 9 July 2021, the Republic of South Sudan marked its 10th birthday. This significant milestone is also marred by the bloody legacy of its first deca...
Diabetes: An unseen humanitarian emergency
It’s 100 years since the discovery of insulin, the life-saving drug for people living with diabetes.
But today, more than half of those w...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Mechanisms and expectations
Episode 5: Mechanisms and expectations
Duration: 48 mins
Justice is slow to come and still many of the nations involved are not tak...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Peace agreement vs justice
Episode 4: Peace agreement vs justice
Duration: 37 mins
Following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, 40,000 people are scattered...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - The fall of Srebrenica
Episode 3: The fall of Srebrenica
Duration: 40 mins
July 1995 - the fall of Srebrenica is one of the toughest chapters of the Bosn...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Prison doctors
Episode 2: Prison doctors
Duration: 37 mins
MSF has been working in the enclave for over 2 years now and has repeatedly informed th...
Speaking Out: Srebrenica - Entering the enclave
Episode 1: Entering the enclave
Duration: 27 mins
The Muslim population trapped inside Srebrenica is living under constant shelling...
COVID-19: Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Midst of a Pandemic
Our producer Jess Brown looks into the potentially catastrophic secondary impacts of COVID-19 on the lives and health of women and girls.
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INSIDE YEMEN: Prologue
In this episode of “Inside Yemen”, Agnes and Natalie take you to Mocha on the banks of the Red Sea – a strategic crossroads just two hours from the fr...
INSIDE YEMEN: Epilogue
Is Yemen’s a hopeless war? And what should be done when we can “only” care for people we know nothing about? In this last episode of “Inside Yemen”, N...
INSIDE YEMEN #4: Everyday violence
A grenade ready to explode, armed militia in a pick-up, Kalashnikovs everywhere. Ghassan and Thierry tell you about the everyday violence in Aden, the...
INSIDE YEMEN #3: Too far, too late
It is Ghassan’s turn to take you deep into Yemen to discover the cholera epidemic that broke out across the country in 2016 and 2017, amidst controver...
INSIDE YEMEN #2: Under the sand, landmines
Bernard knows Yemen well, especially his operating theatre. Let’s go to the emergency department of an MSF hospital trapped between the frontlines sou...