displaced Archive
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Life on hold in a Tunisia transit camp
Posted on June 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe wind sweeps the earth clean every night. And each morning, the sinuous traces of snakes create undulating patterns in the sand – a reminder of the unseen threats underfoot in the refugee camps at Ras Jedir in Tunisia, along the border with Libya. -
Sandra, imprisoned guerrilla fighter: “being separated from my child is extremely hard”
Posted on July 3, 2009 | No CommentsMy name is Sandra. I am 30 years old and an inmate of the women’s prison “The Good Shepherd” in Bogotá, Colombia. A friend of mine outside this jail takes... -
Al Tanaf camp: Search for colour
Posted on June 16, 2009 | 2 CommentsAl Tanf camp for Palestinian refugees from Iraq has to be in the top five of worst situated refugee camps in the world. It violates every principle of proper camp... -
"They are my burden and I must look after them"
Posted on May 29, 2009 | No CommentsRuboneza Kasereka Sekiriyamuva is a 32-year-old internally displaced person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Here he tells of the terror and loss that befell him in his home... -
Daily decisions of life and death
Posted on April 8, 2009 | No CommentsTharcysse Synga is the only doctor in the Minova hospital in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. When the place was caring for scores of war-wounded and displaced people,... -
"I took my youngest brother on my back, the others by the hand"
Posted on April 7, 2009 | No CommentsThe Covedec centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, run by Pastor Patrick Senzoga, opened its doors in late October 2008 to scores of children who had become separated from...
