Médecins Sans Frontières - Pulka – The double ordeal for displaced people

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF259824

Date taken / Date Recorded 20/11/2018 12:00 AM

Country Nigeria

Commissioning section MSF-SPAIN

Photographer / videographer / producer Santiago D. Risco

Copyright Santiago D. Risco/MSF

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We are in one of the
economic powerhouses of Africa

And in one of the countries
with the most inequality: Nigeria

Borno, in the northeast,
is one of its poorest states

Added to the poverty,
there have been years
of devastating conflict

The situation is even worse in Pulka,
a small city in the heart of the territory
controlled by the armed groups

People show up here
who have been in captivity for years
or hidden in the woods

Now the displaced and the local people
are living in very difficult conditions

chyron
Tharcisse Synga Ngundu
Head of Medical Activities

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They have lost the means of subsistence
that they had.

Even the local people
are having difficulties

because they have to tend their crops,
but it’s not always easy,

because they are also attacked
on their crops.

Sometimes they ask the army
to escort them

when they tend their crops.

It’s not easy. Both the local people

and the displaced people

are having problems to get food.

And there are also
difficulties to get water.

The water table has fallen.

The people are thirsty.

They live solely

off water that aid organisations
bring them.

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In addition to these difficult conditions
there is also friction
between the displaced and local people

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There are men and women

in the camps for displaced people.

But when they try to live together,
it’s not easy.

They are viewed with suspicion

by the local people.

Even the military
view them suspiciously.

And sometimes they are imprisoned

or subjected to surveillance.

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Pulka is protected
by a military perimeter

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The army confirms

if they are authorised
to leave Pulka.

Pulka is a real enclave.

To enter and exit
you have to have authorisation.

The people who show up,

after so many days of captivity
in their villages,

who have managed to escape
and reach here,

don’t receive the necessary support
here in Pulka.

They are considered to be
accomplices of the rebels.

You can imagine the ordeal
they’re going through.

They’ve exchanged one ordeal
for another.

It’s very difficult for them.

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Eight million people live
in Borno: one in four
have had to flee their homes
due to the conflict

The displaced people
depend entirely on aid,
but there are few
humanitarian organisations
in the camps

According to the UN,
some 800,000 people live outside
these enclaves, trapped in areas
where aid cannot reach them

Pulka – The double ordeal for displaced people - EN

Pulka – The double ordeal for displaced people - EN