The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Kodjo Menan (Togo):
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks that occurred in Agadez and Arlit, Niger, on 23 May, for which MUJWA has claimed responsibility, and which have caused numerous deaths and injuries. The members of the Security Council expressed their deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the families of the victims of these heinous acts.
La déclaration suivante a été communiquée aujourd’hui par le Porte-parole de M. Ban Ki-moon, Secrétaire général de l’ONU:
Le Secrétaire général condamne dans les termes les plus vifs les deux attentats-suicides qui ont eu lieu, aujourd’hui, à Arlit et Agadez, au Niger. Il transmet ses sincères condoléances aux familles des victimes.
Déclarée le 11 mai par les autorités sanitaires, l’épidémie de choléra qui sévit actuellement dans le nord du Niger a déjà touché plus de 240 personnes. Toutes ont été prises en charge par les équipes MSF. Six décès sont à déplorer. MSF a ouvert deux centres de traitement du choléra (CTC) dans les localités de Mangaïzé et Ayorou, à respectivement 150 et 200 kilomètres au nord de Niamey, la capitale nigérienne. Cette région qui accueille de nombreux réfugiés maliens avait déjà été touchée par le choléra l’an dernier.
Cholera has broken out in northern Niger, in an area now inhabited by large numbers of Malian refugees who fled conflict in their homeland.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated all of the nearly 250 people affected by the cholera outbreak in northern Niger that was declared by the country’s health authorities on May 11. MSF has also opened two cholera treatment centers in the regions of Mangaïzé and Ayorou, north of the capital, Niamey. Six people have died in the outbreak thus far, however.
23 May 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the two suicide bombings which took place today in north-west Niger, and conveyed his sincere condolences to the families of the victims.
According to media reports, the jihadist Mujao group claimed responsibility for the attacks at a barracks in Agadez that killed at least 19, including 18 soldiers, as well as an attack on the French-run Somair uranium mine in Arlit that killed one person and injured 14.
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.
NIAMEY, 23 mai 2013 (AFP) - Deux attentats-suicides quasiment simultanés contre l'armée nigérienne et le groupe nucléaire français Areva, revendiqués par les islamistes du Mujao, ont fait jeudi une vingtaine de morts, essentiellement des militaires, dans le nord du Niger.
Une prise d'otages de plusieurs élèves officiers à Agadez, qui avait suivi l'attaque perpétrée à l'aube contre un camp militaire de cette grande ville du Nord désertique, a pris fin dans la soirée.
NIAMEY, May 23, 2013 (AFP) - Islamist militants staged twin suicide car bombings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and taking several trainee officers hostage in the impoverished west African state.
An Islamist group claimed the attacks, the first of their kind in the impoverished former French colony, as revenge against the country's involvement in France's offensive against militants in neighbouring Mali.
For more than a year on the Mali borders, TSF has been reinforcing the coordination among the humanitarian actors working with Malian refugees.
In the Sahel region, the security conditions have significantly deteriorated in March 2012 with the massive arrival in Mali neighboring countries of refugees fleeing the fighting between the Tuareg rebels and the regular army. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) there are more than 174,000 refugees in the neighbouring countries.
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.
KANO, 23 mai 2013 (IRIN) - Des dizaines de milliers d'habitants de l'État de Borno, dans le nord-est du Nigeria, ont fui leur foyer à la suite des attaques menées depuis le 15 mai contre des camps d'entraînement de Boko Haram (BH) par des avions de combat nigérians. Des milliers d'entre eux se sont réfugiés au Niger et au Cameroun voisins.
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With droughts set to become even more frequent and intense, food and water shortages, and conflicts would also increase. Drought resilience, through awareness-raising, conservation measures, capacity-building and local community involvement, is vital.
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.
Suite au lancement en mars 2013 des plates-formes Open Data dans 30 pays africains, la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) vient de lancer des plates-formes additionnelles Open Data pour les 10 pays africains suivants : Burkina Faso, Burundi, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Gabon, Mali, Madagascar, Niger, Somalie, Soudan. Cela porte à quarante (40) le nombre de pays africains déjà connectés au réseau Open Data.
ECOWAS has called for more support from the UN Fund for Population Activities
(UNFPA) for effective implementation of the region’s gender, child and
humanitarian policies.
The Vice President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Toga McIntosh told a visiting
delegation led by the fund’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa Mr.
Benot Kalasa, that the organization "is desirous of working with you in this
area and facilitating project implementation and coordination for greater
impact."
The UN’s senior humanitarian representative in the Sahel region of West Africa has called on the international community to maintain its commitment to millions of people who face another year threatened by malnutrition, displacement, conflict and high food prices.