Skip to Content

Tunisia

Sixty years on, governments are still failing refugees

08 December 2011
Somali refugees take apart their makeshift shelter in the outskirts of Dagahaley
refugee crises in 2011 and challenges for the future
This week, world leaders will gather in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary that the world’s 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today, states are increasingly shutting their borders and restricting the assistance they give to refugees and people seeking asylum. By Christopher Stokes, MSF Belgium General Director Read the briefing paper: The 60th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention: refugee crises in 2011 and challenges for the future   Refugees from the recent conflict in Libya are assessed by MSF staff in Lampedusa, Italy. Photo: Mattia Insolera We can expect ministers and heads of state to...
Read more

Tunisia, Shousha - We are dying slowly

13 July 2011
shousha camp
shousha camp
Since the start of the Libyan conflict in February, over 250,000 of people have passed through the Ras Ajdir transitory camps, located at the northern Tunisia-Libya border. While the majority has been repatriated to their home country, nearly 4,000 people – mainly sub-Saharan Africans – cannot be repatriated due to the difficult situation in their country of origin (Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Ivory Coast, etc).  
Read more

Trapped in Transit: The neglected victims of the war in Libya

30 June 2011
Sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in camps at the Tunisian border with Libya
Sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in camps at the Tunisian border with Libya
Brussels/Geneva – As fighting continues to force civilians out of Libya, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls the countries engaged in this war for a stronger humanitarian response and more effective protection for the people who are fleeing the conflict.   In a briefing paper released today, entitled “From a Rock to a Hard Place: The Neglected Victims of the Conflict in Libya”, MSF highlights the consequences of poor reception conditions and insufficient protection in the countries where they have sought safety.   Over 600,000 migrants have crossed Libyan borders since the beginning of the war. If many have...
Read more

“When my little brother asks about our mother, I tell him she went to the market”

30 June 2011
Tunisia: Emmanuel and Jacob from Nigeria
Tunisia: Emmanuel and Jacob from Nigeria
Emmanuel and Jacob. Photo: Eric Bouvet/ VII Network  Some 3,000 sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in camps at the Tunisian border with Libya. Most had fled violence or repression in their own countries in search of work in Libya. Due to the war, they had to flee. But due to the situations in their native countries, they cannot be repatriated, and are therefore stuck where they are, their futures uncertain. Many had been detained while they were in Libya. Others have lost relatives—parents, husbands, wives, or children. Some were physically injured. Some have endured severe psychological trauma. And now tensions are building in Shousha, the unsurprising result...
Read more

“I prefer dying in Libya than dying here”

30 June 2011
Abdul, Ivory Coast (Tunisia)
Abdul, Ivory Coast (Tunisia)
Abdul. Photo: Eric Bouvet/ VII Network Some 3,000 sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in camps at the Tunisian border with Libya. Most had fled violence or repression in their own countries in search of work in Libya. Due to the war, they had to flee. But due to the situations in their native countries, they cannot be repatriated, and are therefore stuck where they are, their futures uncertain. Many had been detained while they were in Libya. Others have lost relatives—parents, husbands, wives, or children. Some were physically injured. Some have endured severe psychological trauma. And now tensions are building in Shousha, the unsurprising result of the collective circumstances of the...
Read more
Syndicate content


by Dr. Radut.