Migrants

SOLIDARITY FOR SURVIVAL – Countries have borders – People Don’t! JOHANNESBURG – Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) South Africa opens a dynamic and thought provoking exhibition, titled Solidarity for Survival, on 10 May 2012. The exhibition brings attention on the plight of thousands of people who survive displacement and migration; and come to South Africa in the face of discrimination and healthcare exclusion.    Solidarity for Survival portrays the plight of African nationals fleeing their home countries and is informed by what MSF has witnessed while providing emergency medical care. The exhibition seeks to provoke debate and to...

Tripoli - Hundreds of vulnerable migrants and refugees in Tripoli are living in appalling conditions without proper medical care or security, according to Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders (MSF). The international medical humanitarian organisation, which has started providing basic health care to two communities of displaced foreign nationals, says they need urgent protection and assistance. One community of about 1000 refugees and migrants lives in and around boats on an abandoned military base in Tripoli, while another group of 200 have sought shelter on a farm since fighting broke out in southern areas of Tripoli. ‘Many of these people already fled from fighting in their home countries, such as Somalia,...

As prolonged drought grips Somalia, people are losing their livestock, homes and lives. Poor harvests, rising food prices, continuing violence and chronic poverty have further contributed to a sudden rise in malnutrition rates. MSF is working throughout the region to provide emergency relief. Our current projects are marked on the map below: MSF activities in the horn of Africa, August 2011 © MSF SUPPORT MSF EMERGENCY FUND  

From 6 June to 6 July, approximately 40,000 people arrived in Dadaab in search of humanitarian assistance and safety. As the camps are now full, most of the newly arrived refugees have been forced to settle in the outlying areas of Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera, rendering them even more vulnerable to being deprived of their most basic needs including food and water. Our estimation is that there are at least 25,000 people in Dagahaley outskirts. These families, camped out in the desert, are living in alarmingly harsh conditions with limited access to water, shelter, food and poor hygiene, while the health system within the camps is struggling to cope. In addition, 22.000 newly arrived refugees settled down in the outskirsts of IFO...