Central African Republic | Iconic Mpoko Camp Closes

The IDP camp of Mpoko, in Bangui, has been closed. MSF has run a project in this camp for three years, and has therefore closing it too. At the peak of the violence in CAR in 2013-2014 up to 100.000 people found refuge along the runway of Bangui’s international airport, under the protection of the UN forces (providing for striking visuals that were largely reported on by international media). The closure is a highly symbolic announcement to give a message of stabilization of the country by closing the most high profile of the IDP camps, even though 380.000 CAR citizens are still internally displaced in the country, and 468.000 outside of the country – figures showing that the crisis in CAR is far from over. It was also a large, three years long, iconic MSF operations: the teams provided over 400.000 consultations, assisted over 5.000 births.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

Help us caption & translate this video!