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)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 170 people have died and 225,000 displaced as a result of flash flooding

• Food Security: Aid agencies urged to adopt ‘no regrets response’ to build on regional food security gains

• Renewed attempts made to address cross border and incountry insecurity in eastern Africa, namely in Somalia, DRC and Kenya.

• Regional Migration: An estimated 9.15 million people are currently displaced in the region: 2,012,531 are refugees and 7,141,442 are IDPs

Conditions in many of Darfur's nearly 100 displacement camps have deteriorated as the number of organizations with expertise in delivering basic services has decreased.

The Common Humanitarian Fund allocated $56 million towards emergency preparedness, allowing aid organizations to move stocks to areas difficult to access in the rainy season.

Highlights

• UN calls on Government and SPLM-N to stop fighting for one-week to vaccinate 150,000 children in war-affected areas not under Government control.

• Over 45,000 people have been displaced by armed conflicts in Abu Kershola and Um Berimbita areas of South Kordofan as well as in North Kordofan.

• Some 112,800 people displaced by fighting in South and North Kordofan have received emergency relief since July 2012.

Highlights

• Civilians in Pibor, Jonglei State, again fled the town amid escalating tension and widespread looting of civilian property and humanitarian supplies.

• Around 11, 000 people have fled to Juba following hostilities in Jonglei State.

• Over 18,000 refugees are being relocated to a new camp in Upper Nile State to avoid flooding.

In the village of Yathriba, in Central Darfur, a group of men and women are building a bridge across a small, muddy stream. They work methodically, slowly putting stones into place, conserving their energy under the hot Sudanese sun. During the rainy season this small stream can easily flood and cut Yathriba off from markets, health facilities and schools. This new bridge, and the new road that runs across it, will go a long way to solving this problem.

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