Following the launch in March 2013 of Open Data Platforms in 30 African countries, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched additional data platforms in the following 10 African countries: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Mali, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, Sudan. This brings to forty (40) the number of African countries already connected to the Open Data network.

KINSHASA, DRC, MAY 22, 2013–On the first day of an historic joint United Nations/World Bank Group mission to the Great Lakes region, the World Bank Group announced $1 billion in proposed new funding to help countries in the region provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the Great Lakes peace agreement that was signed by 11 countries in February.

In summary:

• Crisis in Congo : UNHCR opens a new camp in Cankuzo
• Resounding success for vouchers
• Evaluation for better protection
• To be protected, update your data!
• 4 months later… what happened to Mtbaila returnees?
• The Burundian parliament discusses the Kampala Convention on IDPs with the view of its ratification
• Uganda, Burundi and UNHCR sign an agreement on the voluntary return of Burundian refugees living in Uganda

Au sommaire:

• Un mot d’ordre: AU-TO-NO-MI-SA-TION

• Un nouveau camp au bénéfice des réfugiés... et de la population locale!

• Le saviez-vous?

• Kavumu, le résultat d’une étroite collaboration...

• … et d’un investissement de taille!

• Mais qui sont vraiment les premiers réfugiés de Kavumu?

• A la recherche d’un refuge et de sécurité…

• De Kajaga à Kavumu… la longue route du premier convoi

17 May 2013 - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Burundi welcomes the organization of a workshop from 22 to 25 May in Kayanza (north of Burundi), under the auspices of the Government of Burundi, on the revision of the Electoral Code and encourages all political parties and actors to participate actively in this important meeting.

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Les réfugiés congolais fuyant l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo seront accueillis dans nouveau camp de réfugiés à Kavumu, en province de Cankuzo. Ce « village » a été inauguré ce mercredi 15 mai par le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés (HCR) est d'une capacité de 13 000 réfugiés. Le nouveau camp devrait en accueillir 5 000 d'ici la fin 2013.

A new three-year grant from Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) has just been approved and will enable the Danish Refugee Council to continue its advocacy and policy work in the Great Lakes region of Africa until 2016. The new funding will serve to strengthen the efforts of DRC and its partner organisations and to consolidate the results reached in the region since 2010.

Bujumbura – Les réfugiés congolais fuyant l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo seront accueillis dans nouveau camp de réfugiés à Kavumu, en province de Cankuzo, inauguré ce mercredi 15 mai 2013 par le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés (HCR). D’une capacité de 13 000 réfugiés, le nouveau camp devrait en accueillir 5 000 d’ici la fin 2013.

Burundi marked its National AIDS Day on 8 May and committed to stopping new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive. The Minister of Health of Burundi, Dr Sabine Ntakarutimana who opened the event at the Kamenge health centre in Bujumbura said, “I am committed to bringing Burundi to zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.”