Timothy Kennel Shenk

Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA. Opinions mine. @[email protected]

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

@NewBlackMan Thank you for sharing this important news. Please find today's statement on Somalia from MSF here: https://t.co/lWdqke6yY9

[Eric Reeves @sudanreeves]

https://t.co/A9UsTFEHhx

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Read the full report by @Jacquiecharles: https://t.co/cLAIBX1hBD
Read the French version here: https://t.co/VnCLUIIoB2

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

It wasn’t planned (if only you knew what goes into publication after a year’s reporting & weeks of writing & rewriting). But today is @UN #humanrights day. And this topic is more than timely: please read. #Haiti @MiamiHerald https://t.co/HvLdVt3L0G

[MSF Sudan @MSF_Sudan]

From 13-18 September, 137 patients were admitted to the #cholera treatment centre in Nertiti, Central Darfur. With only 1 clean water pump serving 127 villages, many families are forced to drink unsafe stream water. Poor roads mean people walk up to 6 hours or use donkeys to reach care.

@MSF teams are treating patients, but urgent action is needed:
- Access to clean water
- Improved sanitation
- Medical services closer to communities

#Sudan

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

As Haiti gangs escalate attacks, US returns convicted felons | Miami Herald https://t.co/DxoTRkOwQI

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

The war in Sudan is a catastrophic "war on people,"
@MSF Secretary General @Chris_lockyear tells the UN Security Council, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid: https://t.co/ijtSEtkCjT

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

WATCH LIVE: MSF Secretary General @Chris_lockyear is briefing the @UN Security Council #UNSC on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan — millions of people have been uprooted and tens of thousands have been killed. #TalkAboutSudan https://t.co/o9WeJ5Sb6N

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

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Join us there as well for updates from our medical humanitarian work around the world: https://t.co/JH3pFrAECw

[Justin KABUMBA @kabumba_justin]

#RDC|🇨🇩Des échanges de tirs intenses ont éclaté ce matin aux abords de l'hôpital général de Masisi, dans la province du Nord-Kivu. Deux civils ont été touchés, l'un d'eux succombant à ses blessures.L'autre est actuellement soigné par les équipes médicales du ministère de la Santé et de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), rapporte cette même orientation. MSF appelle à la protection de l'hôpital et des civils. "Nous exhortons toutes les parties au conflit à assurer la protection de l'hôpital et de ses occupants", a déclaré Stephan Goetghebuer, chef de mission de MSF en RDC. "Il s'agit des patients, du personnel médical, et des milliers de personnes réfugiées dans l'hôpital."

Affrontements persistants à Masisi. Les combats pour le contrôle de la ville de Masisi se poursuivent depuis deux semaines, causant de nombreux blessés. MSF et le ministère de la Santé ont soigné plus de 80 blessés, et MSF fournit de l'aide aux personnes réfugiées dans l'hôpital.

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Port-au-Prince urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support, and medical care. https://t.co/B3WrkKIanF

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

We partnered with artist Lyne Lucien to create an animation that speaks to the experience of sexual violence survivors in Haiti and the difficult path to healing.

We hope to draw much-needed attention to the challenges.

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

Stories of survival give us hope.

“As a physician anywhere, we get touched by the lives of the patients that we care for.”

Dr. Gillian Burkhardt of @MSF_USA reflects on the fight against maternal mortality in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region. @kevinmd https://t.co/Vt6gsukII1

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

Over the last few weeks, Sudan's largest displacement camp has been attacked nearly every day. #TalkAboutSudan

NPR reporter @ea_akin spoke on Morning Edition about the dire circumstances, including hundreds of displaced people fleeing for safety.
https://t.co/1B92EVr0WM

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

Some (qualified) good news from Haiti

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

HAITI UPDATE: MSF is partially resuming medical activities in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after a 22-day suspension from repeated threats and violence against our staff and patients.

https://t.co/26lbxASVtf

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

A devastating and detailed look at how the world's famine response is failing in Sudan. https://t.co/tOWCGJrUfr

[Obi Anyadike @Enugu62]

In some areas of northwest Nigeria levels of global acute malnutrition have doubled since last year, when the situation was already dire, while aid to the region is decreasing.

https://t.co/FbZQQPcumB

[Timothy Kennel Shenk @timkshenk]

A malnutrition crisis has grown in northern Nigeria for the past two years, new survey data from
@MSF_Nigeria
is showing - highlighting the consequences of climate, conflict and economic turmoil for people on the edge of survival. https://t.co/ljdomhdjGO

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

Haiti: We condemn in the strongest terms the killing of at least 2 patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by Haitian police.

MSF personnel in the ambulance were violently attacked, tear-gassed, held against their will for 4+ hrs.
https://t.co/R8JQFk4o0O