Since May 14, fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and the SPLA has devastated the town of Abyei, which has been virtually destroyed. Almost the entire local population has fled to the north and south of the town to seek refuge. Abyei, located in the centre of Sudan, and its surroundings had, prior to the fighting, a population of approximately 130,000, but almost 60,000 have now been displaced.
For more, read the full media release : Fighting in the town of Abyei: MSF treats the wounded
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James Maskalyk is an emergency physician and, when not in the field, lives and works in Toronto. His first mission with MSF was in Abyei, in a small hospital on the still contested border between North and South Sudan, and his
blog from there
became a book
Six Months in Sudan.
He is in the field again, working and living in a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, home to 300,000 displaced Somali people.
“…austere as the Sudanese landscape, this book has poetry in it along with pain…” – The Washington Post
