Teams from TSF arrived in Burma on Friday last week in the aftermath of typhoon Mahasen at the request of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); they will be deployed as of tomorrow morning in the State of Rakhine to assist the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams (UNDAC).

In the first days of the disaster response, TSF experts will assess damage to telecoms infrastructure and provide telecommunications support to the evaluation teams using the specialized equipment that the NGO brings with it.

Having already been working alongside Syrian doctors for more than a year thanks to 15 satellite lines and 9 broadband connections in different hospitals of Syria, Télécoms Sans Frontières is increasing its support to the Syrian people by intervening directly among refugees on the borders of Turkey.

Internet centre for Syrian children

Al Salama camp is located close to the Turkish border at the edge of the main road to Aleppo and currently hosts 15,000 Syrian refugees. There are new arrivals every day fleeing bombings taking place only 10 km away.

TSF installed a broadband satellite connection for the refugee Registration Centre, managed by the new Syrian Red Crescent, as well as for the logistics Coordination Centre, to enable communication of refugee needs in real time.

Having already been working alongside Syrian doctors for more than a year thanks to 15 satellite lines and 9 broadband connections in different hospitals of Syria, Télécoms Sans Frontières is increasing its support to the Syrian people by intervening directly among refugees on the borders of Turkey.

Two Internet centres for Syrian children

This week, a TSF team will proceed to the opening of a broadband satellite internet connection in a ninth hospital in the south of Aleppo.

Each hospital consumes about 50 Gb per month, which makes a total of 450 Gb that allows the sending of medical imaging, diagnosis, drug lists...

Besides, the 15 voice satellites lines TSF distributed throughout the whole territory, has allowed 96 hours of communication for the repatriation logistics of wounded civilians to neighboring countries of Syria.

Following the complete reestablishment of the mobile network in Timbuktu, the TSF emergency team left Mali on February 12th. However, the Internet connection remains unavailable, that is why TSF has given the town hall staff all the equipment necessary to access the Internet.

In Mali, the 14 satellite lines of Télécoms Sans Frontières allowed to establish 550 connections for the benefit of 4,200 beneficiaries, for whom it was often the first call they made for several months. The mobile network had been restored but functioned only partially.

Au Mali, les 14 lignes satellites de Télécoms Sans Frontières ont permis d’établir 550 connexions au profit de 4 200 bénéficiaires, pour qui il s’agit souvent du premier appel depuis plusieurs mois. En effet, le réseau mobile a été rétabli mais ne fonctionne que partiellement.

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A TSF team is currently intervening in Timbuktu. The TSF experts installed an Internet satellite connection at the town hall for the benefit of the NGOs, the crisis unit, the hospital staff and the local authorities.

The TSF satellite equipment allows to reinforce the capacities of humanitarian workers in the region of Timbuktu enabling them to share vital information to manage the very critical humanitarian situation in this area.

A TSF team deployed this morning to Timbuktu, from its international headquarters.
The emergency team is carrying 14 mobile satellite lines and all the equipment necessary to create 4 emergency telecom centres. This equipment will reinforce the capacities of humanitarian workers in the region of Timbuktu enabling them to share vital information to manage the very critical humanitarian situation in this area.