A lot has happened since my last post, and not just in the Horn of Africa, about which my colleagues and I have told you so much recently. The emergency in Libya has entered a new stage, and you can learn about our response here. Meanwhile, the Horn of Africa remains a dawnting challenge and yesterday the UN declared famine in new areas of Somalia. Here and here you can read new dispatches from the field, written by my team members in Kenya and Somalia. But today we are changing the topic – I have invited Heinke Veit, our regional information officer for the Middle East, to share her fresh impressions from the Libyan-Tunisian border where I visited in March, and from her trip to Tripoli.
I’m back at Ras Ajdir, the border crossing between Tunisia and Libya which made headlines in late February/early March this year Read the full entry
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A new and growing humanitarian emergency has summoned me to Tunisia. Just between the 1st and the 2nd of March, more than 25,000 people have reportedly crossed into this country from Libya, fleeing from continuing violence. Many of them have little than the clothes on their backs; even more have no easy way to reach their home countries. There are