Les récents affrontements entre les Forces armées de la République Démocratiques du Congo (FARDC) et les rebelles du Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) provoquent la fuite des déplacés qui vivent dans les camps de Mugunga et Bulengo, deux sites situés dans la banlieue de la ville de Goma (Nord-Kivu) depuis le 20 mai dernier. Cette situation précaire contraint l’ONG internationale Médecin Sans Frontières (MSF) à suspendre momentanément les activités dans ces deux camps. Le point du sujet dans cet entretien que Jody Nkashama a eu avec Thierry Goffeau, chef de mission à MSF/GOMA.

ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, May 23 (UNHCR) – Two years after the end of Côte d'Ivoire's brief civil war, growing numbers of refugees have been returning to the country since January after violence last year slowed the rate of returns. But tens of thousands remain in exile.

The African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) airlifted on 21 May more than 1.5 tons of critically needed medical supplies to thousands of civilians in El Sereif and Saraf Omra localities, North Darfur.

The supplies, which included pharmaceuticals, laboratory supplies and other related items, were immediately transferred to medical facilities in these locations.

In late April, residents across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were pleasantly surprised to receive phone calls from friends and relatives living in the remote northeastern corner of the country. For the first time, the people of Niangara, in the heavily-forested Haut Uélé District of Orientale Province, have access to a cellular communications network in their isolated community.

Leo Mbondo has just carried his three-year-old daughter, Charlene, to the Goba Town community clinic. He has walked for two and a half hours in the blazing heat, all the way from Zinc Camp more than five kilometres away.

Charlene looks well cared for and smiles constantly – but her father is worried about the hacking chesty cough that she has had for almost a week now, which seems to be getting worse.

Kinshasa, 23 May 2013 – During his joint visit to Kinshasa on 22 May 2013 with the President of the World Bank Group, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon said he would convene a meeting in May 2013 to review the progress made thus far by the Framework-Agreement for Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Region.

NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season

Era of high activity for Atlantic hurricanes continues

May 23, 2013

In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year.

WHO: John Ging (OCHA), Ted Chaiban (UNICEF), David Kaatrud (WFP),
Dominique Burgeon (FAO), Neil Buhne (UNDP), Mabingue Ngom (UNFPA), Mohammed Abdiker (IOM) and Mike Bowers (MercyCorps)

WHAT: Mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan

WHEN: 26 May to 1 June 2013

WHERE: Kabul, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad and Sindh

Emergency Directors from United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners will travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan from 26 May to 1 June.

On Thursday, May 23, the world will be marking the first-ever International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, as recently designated by the United Nations General Assembly. USAID commemorates this day by celebrating a milestone in global maternal health: Over 30,000 fistula repair surgeries have been performed with U.S. support since 2005. Fistula, a devastating childbirth injury believed to affect millions of women in developing countries, can be surgically repaired up to 90% of the time.