LES TITRES

 Le Tchad confronté à un afflux de réfugiés venus du Nigeria (RFI, 21/05/2013)

 Emergency Response Grows in Chad (VOA, 21/05/2013)

 Chad Commits to an Acceleration of the Action Plan to End the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers (UN, 22/05/2013)

 Sahel: millions need long-term support (OCHA, 22/05/2013)

 Conspiration présumée au Tchad: deux députés et deux militaires laissés en liberté provisoire (RFI, 23/05/2013

 La BAD lance de nouvelles autoroutes de l’information (BAD, 22/05/2013)

22 mai 2013 -La Corne de l’Afrique connaît actuellement une flambée de poliovirus sauvage de type 1 (PVS1). Le 30 avril 2013, près de Dadaab, au Kenya, une fillette de 4 mois a présenté des symptômes de paralysie flasque aigüe (PFA). Deux contacts en bonne santé de l’enfant se sont révélés positifs pour le PVS1. Ce sont les premiers cas confirmés en laboratoire survenus au Kenya depuis juillet 2011. Les investigations concernant cette flambée se poursuivent. En outre, un cas dû au PVS1 a été confirmé à Banadir, en Somalie, le 9 mai 2013.

The Vanuatu Daily Post reports on valuable disaster preparedness work Caritas Australia is supporting in the Solomon Islands.

Twenty Teachers from kindergartens around Efate, Solomon Islands, spent a week learning what to do if there is a tsunami, earthquake, flood or cyclone.

The training, called ‘Disaster Risk Management for Early Childhood Education’, was funded and conducted by Caritas Solomon to teach these early childhood teachers the right response during disasters in the future.

ARSAL, Lebanon, May 23 (UNHCR) – It's test day at the Arsal Public Second Shift Middle School and the students in the 8th Grade maths class are engrossed in their exam. They factor numbers, write a series of equations in the form of a single power – all in French, a language they have come to learn only since starting school here in north-east Lebanon two months ago.

"These children come to school with a deep desire for learning," says Ali Hujeiri, 55, the school principal. "They know what they've missed and now they appreciate the value of their education."

With 1.4 million people still living in camps, and a majority of the people in Darfur still suffering from inadequate access to basic health care, education and other services, the challenges remain enormous.

• A wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case has been confirmed in Kenya, the first WPV in the country since July 2011, with onset of paralysis 30 April. The location is a refugee camp in the Dadaab area, close to the border with Somalia, where a child was paralysed by polio near the capital Mogadishu on 18 April. Outbreak response activities are being planned. See ‘Horn of Africa’ section for more.

Although the storm that struck southern Bangladesh luckily caused few fatalities, the downpour that accompanied it has provoked serious flooding and greatly worsened the living conditions of thousands of Bangladeshis. For the past week, the teams of Terre des hommes have been working hard to bring them aid.

In Patharghata, the situation is especially worrying. In this region, where 85% of the population lives from fishing and farming, the fields have been flooded and the retention basins used for the sand filters for drinking water have been destroyed or are contaminated.

Kabul, May 23, 2013- Obstetric fistula is a devastating childbirth injury which leads to both physical and social harm for the women suffering of the injury. Sadly, obstetric fistula is a uniquely eradicable maternal morbidity that has until recently not received sufficient attention in Afghanistan. Obstetric fistula arises most often as a complication of prolonged and/or obstructed labor and results in an opening (fistula) between the bladder and the vagina (vesico-vaginal fistula) or between the rectum and the vagina (recto-vaginal fistula).

Les travaux de la 66e session de l'Assemblée mondiale de la santé se poursuivent à Genève, avec notamment les allocutions des délégations ministérielles. Ce mercredi matin, le Niger s'est inquiété de la situation épidémiologique et nutritionnelle dans ce pays sahélien. Et pour réduire cette prévalence, Niamey a adopté de nouvelles politiques nutritionnelles et un plan pour lutter contre la malnutrition infantile.