For over 13 years, the Mbera camp, located 60 km from the Malian border and over 1,000 km from Nouakchott, has been home to tens of thousands of Malian refugees fleeing violence in Mali’s central and northern regions. The Mbera camp has now reached its limits and can no longer contain the scale of the crisis as needs escalate. From ALIMA.
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