South Sudan, Feb. 4 -- A Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, South Sudan, was hit in an airstrike by the government of South Sudan's forces during the night of Tuesday, February 3, 2026.

One MSF staff member suffered minor injuries. The hospital's main warehouse was destroyed during the attack, and we lost most of our critical supplies for providing medical care. In a separate incident that same afternoon, MSF's health facility in Pieri, also located in Jonglei, was looted by unknown assailants. Our colleagues from Lankien and Pieri had to flee with the community, and their fate and whereabouts are still unknown as we try to establish communication with them.

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