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)

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.

The measles campaign runs 22-26 May in Bangui

BANGUI/YAOUNDE, 21 May 2013 – UNICEF and its partners are mounting an emergency measles vaccination campaign in Bangui, the conflict-hit capital of the Central African Republic, after eight children tested positive for the disease in April.

Working with the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization and NGO partners Merlin, IMC, ACF, PU-AMI and COOPI, UNICEF aims to reach 125, 000 children during the 22-26 May campaign.

Highlights

• United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit DRC with stops in Kinshasa and Goma May 22-23, accompanied by Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Under-Secretary-General & UNFPA Executive Director, Jordan Ryan, Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), Herve Ladsous, Head of UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa.

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

05/20/2013 21:00 GMT

UNITED NATIONS, May 20, 2013 (AFP) - The Lord's Resistance Army has killed more than 100,000 people during a reign of terror in Central Africa over the past 25 years, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Monday.

The guerrilla group led by Joseph Kony, whose global notoriety was increased by the Invisible Children Internet video, is also blamed for the abduction of between 60,000 and 100,000 children and the displacement of 2.5 million people.

05/20/2013 14:40 GMT

BANGUI, Central African Republic, May 20, 2013 (AFP) - At least four people died and several were injured in fighting between military police and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic at the weekend, a military police official said Monday.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fighting broke out Sunday in the town of Bimbo south of the capital after members of the Seleka rebel coalition "stole and hid" several vehicles.

50,000 vaccines are available, augmented by an emergency order for 246,500 more, including 100,000 for routine vaccinations and 146,500 for the measles outbreak in Bangui.

05/18/2013 15:39 GMT

BANGUI, Central African Republic, May 18, 2013 (AFP) - Armed men raided several houses in a town in the northeastern Central African Republic, leaving six people dead, a military official told AFP Saturday.

"The assailants arrived in several cars and fired shots as they entered the town, so residents fled," said the official of the attack in Bouca, 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of the capital Bangui, on Friday.

"Then they headed to the houses and began looting. Six bodies were found after the attack."