Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) Updates

22nd January 2025 We welcome the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, marking a first step towards reducing the overwhelming suffering caused by 15 months of brutal conflict. Since...

This week marked World Human Rights Day on Tuesday 10th December. This day gives us the opportunity to look ahead to the New Year and consider what can be done to support the rights of people and...

Ciudad de Panamá - Esta semana, los gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe se reúnen en Santiago para marcar un hito importante con la adopción de la Declaración y el Plan de Acción de Chile...

With International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction approaching this weekend, being celebrated on Sunday 13th October, we are encouraged to bring to light the work being done by people and communities...

Global warming is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Yet, its effects are disproportionately experienced by people in vulnerable situations, forcibly displacing over 30 million people...

Le réchauffement climatique est l'un des problèmes les plus urgents de notre époque. Pourtant, ses effets sont ressentis de manière disproportionnée par les personnes en situation de vulnérabilité,...

Comment évolue la situation des personnes touchées par la guerre en Ukraine ? Nous retraçons les étapes de la réponse de TSF à la crise en Ukraine jusqu'à aujourd'hui, en suivant les besoins de...

How does the situation of Ukrainian people evolve? We retrace the steps in TSF's response to the crisis in Ukraine up to the present day, following people's communication and information needs. Key...

TSF organizes training in emergency telecommunications in South-East Asia, a region at risk of natural disasters. A Télécoms Sans Frontières’ team recently returned from South East Asia after...

Testimonies and images of TSF's support of Ukrainian refugees: one year later, still providing connectivity and essential information. A year ago, on February 24, 2022, the invasion of Ukraine by the...

TSF's response to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. For regular updates about TSF's mission in Turkey, see here. Following two powerful and deadly earthquakes (7.8 and 7.5 magnitude) earthquakes...

After landing at Ivato airport, the airport of the capital of Madagascar Antananarivo, there are still a few hours of taxi brousse to the west to arrive to Miarinarivo. There, on the main square (or...

Au cours des 30 dernières années, le nombre de migrants depuis l'Amérique Centrale a augmenté de 137%, passant de 6,82 millions à près de 16,2 millions. Seulement au Mexique, au cours du premier...

In the last 30 years, the number of migrants from Central America has increased by 137%, from 6.82 million to almost 16.2 million. In Mexico alone, in the first half of 2022, 58,642 people requested...

In early 2012, TSF started supporting medical activities in Syria with emergency communication means. A year later, during a mission to the Alsalama camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, TSF visited the...

Poland is the European country receiving the highest number of refugees from Ukraine (already over 1M according to the United Nations estimates). They are mainly women and children, and arrive in the...

In Palanca, on the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, about 30 people get on each bus to Bucharest. These buses bring refugees safely from Ukraine towards a possible better future. "Refugees": this often...

Il y a 30 ans, les fondateurs de TSF ont créé une association humanitaire pour apporter vêtements, vivres, et autres biens de première nécessité aux réfugiés de la Première Guerre du Golfe au...

"' Thirty years ago, the founders of TSF created a humanitarian association to bring clothes, food and other necessities to refugees from the Gulf War in Iraqi Kurdistan. They continued their...

Over 5 million refugees have already fled Ukraine. 90% of them are women and children. They have been forced to leave often on short notice, leaving their life, their husband and father behind in the...