MEDSF Tanzania

Tanzania: MEDSF team supports response to outbreak of Marburg virus

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:26:07 +0000

The outbreak was declared on 20 January 2025.

No one chooses to be a refugee | Tanzania

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:08:07 +0000

Barthelemy is a Burundian refugee and staff member with MEDSF in Nduta camp, northwestern Tanzania. He embarked on an extraordinary journey to reach safety and begin a new life.

Tanzania: Departing Nyarugusu camp, MEDSF continues refugee response at nearby Nduta

Tue, 30 May 2017 13:46:21 +0000

“While it is never an easy decision to leave healthcare services, our work in Nyarugusu was always intended to be a temporary measure”

Tanzania: Humanitarian response in refugee camps still falling behind

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:17:59 +0000

"Although agencies have begun to scale up assistance, the humanitarian response still does not match the rate of new arrivals," says David Nash, head of mission for MEDSF.

Tanzania: Testimonies from refugees in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:34:13 +0000

Over 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania's northwestern Kigoma district.

Gallery: Tanzania - Aid is needed before situation deteriorates

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:17:09 +0000

A critical situation is unfolding for hundreds of thousands of refugees in Tanzania, with camps now at full capacity. This slideshow illustrates the situation of Nduta refugee camp, overstretched by the influx of new arrivals - around 300 per day.

Tanzania: Urgent increase in assistance needed as refugee camps now full

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:27:06 +0000

"With total refugee numbers in the three camps predicted to hit more than 280,000 by the end of 2016, this is rapidly becoming one of Africa’s biggest refugee crises," says David Nash, Head of Mission for MEDSF.

Tanzania: One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 07:19:12 +0000

Tanzania: “People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:43:39 +0000

Dr Alfonso Apollinar is part of MEDSF’s emergency team responding to the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where more than 118,000 Burundians have fled to camps across the border. He describes the conditions in the increasingly overburdened camps

Video: A Month in Focus, August 2015

Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:43:01 +0000

Ebola: a hope-bringing vaccine; Lebanon: Lives ruined by the conflict; Tanzania: Cholera, a new threat to Burundian refugees; Malawi: In the over-populated prisons; Antivenom serums: In worrying shortage; Yemen: "You come and do the work!".