MSF sets up its first operational centre outside France and thereby becomes an international organisation. Extensive feeding programme launched for famine victims. MSF denounces diversion of humanitarian aid and forced migration. An MSF team is expelled by the Mengistu regime. MSF launches biggest refugee programme following Gulf War.
Teams provide assistance to Kurdish refugees in several countries.
MSF awarded European Human Rights Award and Philadelphia Liberty Medal. Civil war and famine decimate the population. MSF increases its activity in the field and alerts international opinion. MSF denounces ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. MSF denounces the methods of the United Nations troops in Somalia which violate the very humanitarian principles by which they are supposed to operate.