SHCC Attacks on Health Care
The section aligns with the definition of attacks on health care used by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC).
Africa
Burkina Faso
Around 18 November 2022: In Liptougou town, Gnagna province, Est region, a midwife was gang raped by suspected Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin’ (JNIM) militants. Source: ACLED
27 November 2022: Near Youba village, Yatenga province, Nord region, an IDP camp was attacked by suspected JNIM militants. One IDP was shot and wounded, and a vehicle, an ambulance, tents, and sheds burned, and motorcycles seized by the militants. Source: ACLED1
Democratic Republic of the Congo
01 December 2022: In Fulu, Butembo city, North Kivu province, a 4×4 vehicle belonging to the NGO IMA World Health with five staff onboard was hijacked by Mayi Mayi militia. Source: Radio Okapi
Ethiopia
15 November 2022: Update: In Tigray region, following the 02 November ceasefire agreement between the The Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an ICRC convoy arrived with 40 tons of medical aid via the Gondar corridor for the first time since last August, followed by a 15-truck convoy of WFP the next day. Sources: AP and RFI
Kenya
Around 08 December 2022: In Kotulo between Elram and Falama areas, Mandera county, a driver and a vehicle transporting measles vaccine and food supplements to Falama health centre and rented by Action Against Hunger were hijacked by four suspected Al Shabaab militants in the early morning. The driver was released unharmed in the evening together with the vehicle. Source: The Star
Mali
06 December 2022: In Kita village, Tenenkou commune, Mopti region, a health worker and two other civilians were injured and five civilians from the Tuareg and Fulani communities were killed in air-ground operations using helicopters reportedly by Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) and Wagner forces during the weekly market day. Source: ACLED1
Nigeria
08 December 2022: Along the Apara link road, Obio LGA, Rivers state, a female pharmacist and a customer were kidnapped from a pharmacy and dragged into a waiting car by two armed individuals. Source: Punch Nigeria
Somalia
07 December 2022: In Buur Xakaba town, Bay region, an NGO health coordinator at the district hospital was shot and killed by al Shabaab. Source: ACLED1
Sudan
06 December 2022: In El Nehoud locality, West Kordofan state, a group of masked men linked to ex-President Omar Al Bashir, armed with Kalashnikovs and sticks, stormed the El Nehoud Hospital, and severely beat a doctor in the Emergency Department. They also robbed staff and patients in wards. Source: Radio Dabanga
Uganda
As reported on 01 December 2022: In Moroto town and district, Karamoja subregion, Northern region, 10 community health workers who had come to town for a training session with an INGO, were among 300 men detained at a sports field by soldiers amid an aggressive disarmament campaign by the armed forces targeting cattle raiders. Detainees also included construction workers and hotel employees who were rounded up indiscriminately on the mere basis of being adult males, and thus, potential cattle raiders. Source: The New Humanitarian
