During March and April 2015 violent xenophobic attacks spread across South Africa's KwaZulu Natal province, leaving seven people dead, several injured and more than 7,000 foreign nationals displaced. Initially housed in three displacement camps around Durban, the number of people - predominantly Malawians, Mozambicans and Zimbabweans - dwindled as they were repatriated. Thousands of them boarded busses for an exodus en mass. As the displacement camps emptied out during April refugees from Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo remained stuck, facing a difficult dilemma: they cannot return to their countries of origin at war, neither can they return to the communities they fled from for fear of being attacked again. Martin fled to SA from DRC. He and his family are stuck in a camp after recent xenophobic violence: "Please, tell people in charge from UN HCR to do something better for us as refugees. Take care of us, so the place can be safe. I can't go back to where I stayed before. The people, they [came to]fight with us - my friends and neighbours. They are still there." For more Voice from the Camps visit: http://www.msf.org.za/xenophobia

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