In 1967, the Biafran war began as a result of the secession of the eastern region of Nigeria, which proclaimed itself the Republic of Biafra.
With government troops carrying out a land and sea blockade, the region was plunged into famine, resulting in an estimated one to two million deaths.
He then went on a mission with other French doctors: Marcel Delcourt, Max Recamier, Gérard Pigeon, Bernard Kouchner, Raymond Borel, Jean Cabrol, Jean-Michel Wild, Pascal Grellety Bosviel, Jacques Bérés, Gérard Illiouz, Philippe Bernier, Xavier Emmanuelli [fr], and Louis Schittly.
Bernard Kouchner then left MSF definitively and created the organization Médecins du monde with fifteen other doctors in 1980.
In 2007, La luciole de glace ("Ledeni Svitac") was staged at the Madlenianum Opera and Theatre of Zemun.