Doctors Without Borders Halts Operations in South Sudan After Second Abduction

Doctors Without Borders Halts Operations in South Sudan After Second Abduction
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended its operations in two counties of South Sudan for at least six weeks after a second staff member was abducted in less than a week, Anadolu Agency reported. The organization has pulled its medical teams from the Morobo and Yei River counties due to the escalating insecurity.

The latest incident involved a team leader who was taken from an MSF convoy during an evacuation, just four days after a Health Ministry staffer was kidnapped from an MSF ambulance on the same road. While the ministry staffer was later released, the repeated attacks have forced the aid organization to scale back its services for the second time in three months.

Ferdinand Atte, MSF’s head of mission in South Sudan, expressed outrage over the abductions, stating that the organization cannot continue to work in an environment where the safety of its staff is compromised.