So early this morning on CNN they showed the famine going on in Niger, particularly with the kids. They showed a doctor who was from an organization called - hold on to your seats - "Medicines without Frontiers."
Edit: Sorry, I guess it wasn't obvious to some people. The official French name is Médecins Sans Frontières. The official English name
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While technically a medic in English is a doctor and a frontier is the same as a border, a translator should know that almost every major organization has an official name in English and should look it up. This is called professionalism, which the above-mentioned translation clearly lacks..
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