Provide telecom connectivity for NGOs in the Sahel

May 30th, 2012 - A new team from TSF deployed to Niger on Friday 25th May 2012, in response to the food emergency. TSF is supporting the NGOs on the ground, including Vétérinaires sans Frontières Belgium and Care International, who are organizing efforts to reduce the effects of acute malnutrition threatening 8.3 million people in Niger.

Syria: Crucial telecommunications for medical relief

March 29th, 2012 - TSF set up a logistical telecom support to facilitate the repatriation of wounded civilians from conflict areas, and the supply of medicines to the besieged towns of Syria.

Read about TSF's mission in LIBYA

2011 started off with the Arab Spring and the domino effect of toppling totalitarian regimes. Citizens from Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Libya rose up. Some, like Egypt and Tunisia, undertook radical change immediately. Others underwent a prolonged conflict, for example in Libya.

In the nine months since the beginning of the Libyan uprising, TSF has been present on the ground, providing emergency telecommunications connections to affected populations and the NGOs working to help them.

TSF deployment to Kaikor (Kenya), South Sudan border

May 9th, 2012 - The Horn of Africa was hit by one of the most severe droughts in its history, after two seasons without any rain, causing shortage in agricultural outputs and massive loss of livestock. A state of famine was declared by the United Nations Organisation, and the humanitarian organisms, threatening the lives of 13 million people. In addition to its deployment to Dadaab refugee camp in August 2011 and its current M-PESA mission in the Marsabit South district, it is within the framework of the same food crisis response programme that TSF deployed to the Kenyan border with South Sudan.