The wars in Gaza or Ukraine not only impact the besieged areas themselves, but there are other places where there is collateral damage from these conflicts. For example, the refugee camps in the Sahara.

They are places like Tindouf, in Algeria, where about 175,000 Sahrawi refugees live in the precarious camps built almost 50 years ago who live off first world aid.

“Conflicts like the one in Ukraine or any type of conflict or catastrophe that occurs in places where the channeling of aid can be more intensive, They notice this type of chronic shelters“explains Pepe Fernández, president of ‘Doctors around the world’.

The World Food Program has had to reduce emergency rations by almost 30% distributed among the Sahrawi refugee population, and that translates into hunger.

Those who suffer the most are pregnant women and children: “During pregnancy, anemia intensifies. Women can arrive at birth with very low hemoglobin levels, hemorrhage during childbirth or any other similar circumstance, as it can cause maternal death. “.

“There is an absolute, but absolute, dependence on foreign aid. It is a refuge and generations have already been born there. There are grandmothers and grandfathers whose grandsons and granddaughters think that the world and life is precisely that: refuge,” she concludes.