- Title: International aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres contender for Nobel Peace Prize
- Date: 16th September 2019
- Summary: Six EU states to take in Ocean Viking migrants as charities describe tense situation on board. BERLIN, GERMANY (FILE - AUGUST 23, 2019) (REUTERS) NEWS CONFERENCE BY MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES AND SOS MEDITERRANEE IN PROGRESS WITH PARTICIPANTS LISTENING TO VOICE RECORDING OF RESCUE WORKER ONBOARD OCEAN VIKING/ PICTURE OF RESCUE WORKER STEFANIE (LAST NAME NOT GIVEN) ONBOARD OCEAN VIKING WITH VOICE RECORDING OF HER SAYING (German): "They have knife wounds, burns from hot substances or plastic, beatings with sticks or guns, some also have wounds from explosions or gun shots, and of course sexual violence." NEWS CONFERENCE LISTENING TO VOICE RECORDING WITH RESCUE WORKER STEFANIE SAYING (German): "I am appalled by the level of apathy, which has been reached. And I am also appalled by people looking away and the inhumanity, which the rescued people and we are facing."
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- Story Text: International aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is a possible contender for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The group, founded in Paris in 1971 but now headquartered in Geneva, has played a role in the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean in addition to tackling Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aquarius 2, run jointly by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee, is the one remaining charity rescue vessel still operating in the central Mediterranean, picking up migrants who are in most cases trying to get to Europe from Libya, often in overcrowded, unseaworthy boats.
The ship has operated in the central Mediterranean since early 2016 and the owners say it has helped more than 29,000 people in distress, many of them African migrants.
MSF have also responded to two Ebola outbreaks in Democratic Republic of Congo during 2018, the aid group reported on its website.
The Central African country has experienced ten Ebola outbreaks since the virus was discovered in northern Congo in 1976 - more than twice as many as any other country.
In 2015, a MSF hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was destroyed by a U.S. air strike, killing 42 people including 14 staff. The Pentagon later blamed the attack on human error and equipment failure.
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