Guinée-Bissau : Le choléra enfin en baisse

Afrique de l'Ouest : 1ère rencontre ouest africaine contre le trafic de drogue

Côte d'Ivoire/Niger : MSF-France arrête ces activités

Libéria : Réouverture des cantines scolaires à Monrovia

1- SITUATION HUMANITAIRE

1.1 Sécurité alimentaire et nutrition

Aperçu régional

Selon un rapport conjoint CRS, CILSS, FAO, FEWS-NET et le PAM, une baisse du prix du mil et du maïs a été constatée depuis le mois de septembre 2008 sur les marchés ouest africains, cependant

This paper provides members of the regional-level Food Security and Nutrition Working Group and other decision-makers in West Africa with an overview of the food security situation, including the implications of international and sub-regional market trends.

On West African markets, a decline in the price of millet and maize began in September 2008. It is not known how far prices will drop, or for how long the trend will last. Satisfactory rains that continued until the end of September in the Sahel have resulted

Issue 34 of Field Exchange has a special focus on infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IFE) and is dedicated to the memory of Tom Marchione.

Leading the IFE 'show' is an extended field article from the UNICEF team in Indonesia, sharing their IFE experiences in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2006. On reading the piece you may well get that 'deja-vu' feeling - mass arrival and untargeted distribution of infant formula, milk powder, and commercial baby foods to mothers and children. Monitoring was almost non-existent. Coordination proved a big

Rainfall forecasts for the 2008 rainy season by the PRESAO1 11 forum projected normal to above? normal precipitation (based on the 1961? 1990 historical average) across virtually all farming areas of the West African countries, Chad and Cameroon. These predictions utilized country? level monitoring data for the current growing season.

The 2008 rainy season got off to a normal start, producing regular, evenly distributed rainfall in most of the Sahelian

On the whole, the food situation is normal

MSF and MSF Podcasts: Paris/Niamey - On July 18, 2008, the Niger government terminated, suddenly and without explanation, the medical and nutritional activities of the French section of MSF in the Maradi region. This decision has had grave consequences on mortality among young children.

Over the last three months, MSF has made

Sixty-third General Assembly
Second Committee
24th Meeting (AM)

Expressing concern that the global food and energy crises were exacerbating the vulnerability of economically fragile least developed countries, several speakers in the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today called for strategies to increase the agricultural productivity and food security of those nations.

As the Committee concluded its general debate on groups of countries in special situations, Yemen's representative said 5 million people in his country were going hungry, while another 923

Cette semaine, le contexte général de notre région est dominé par les combats dans l'est de la RDC conduisant à des déplacements très importants des populations. D'autres crises politiques conduisant à l'insécurité, aux déplacements des populations dans certains pays continuent. Les épidémies frappent toujours plusieurs pays. L'OMS continue son appui technique aux pays en crises.

Situation dans les pays

Crises aigues

- Ethiopie: La malnutrition continue de progresser. Environ 1,9 millions de personnes ont toujours besoin d'aide

NIAMEY, Oct 21 (Reuters) - French charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) appealed to Niger on Tuesday to allow it to resume treating thousands of malnourished children in a southern region, three months after the government halted its work.

Niger's health authorities have accused the French medical charity of exaggerating the numbers of under-nourished infants requiring help in the Maradi region, and of failing to cooperate