MSF first set up a field mission in Côte d'Ivoire in 1990, but ongoing violence and the 2002 division of the country by rebel groups and the government led to several massacres, and MSF teams have even begun to suspect that an ethnic cleansing is occurring.
MSF åbnede en mission i Elfenbenskysten i 1990, men pågående vold og opdelingen af landet i 2002 førte til adskillige massakrer; MSF's teams er begyndt at mistænke at en etnisk udrensning finder sted i landet.