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The mental stress of being a refugee can disable a person – even the whole family – making an already difficult situation even harder to cope with.
MSF’s Dr Roberto Scaini offers an insight in to a typical night shift working at MSF’s field hospital in Batil refugee camp:
As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de
Abdul, 23, left Ivory Coast in 2008. Before the war broke out, he spent months in Libyan prison. He is now in the Shousha refugee camp.
Mouhaydin, 27, from Somalia, was working as a labourer and a cleaner in Libya. He arrived in Shousha in March. His wife died after embarking on a boat to Europe.
Emmanuel, 15, and Jacob, three, from Nigeria, lost their mother after a boat capsized on its way to Italy.