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Mère et Enfant : Bulletin d'information de l'UNICEF Chad - juin 2013

NUMERO SPECIAL: URGENCE A TISSI

■ RESULTATS DE L’ENQUETE S.M.A.R.T
■ VISITE DU REPRESENTANT SPECIAL DU SECRETAIRE GENERAL
■ RIPOSTES POLIO AU SALAMAT

Répondre à l’urgence tout en poursuivant le programme régulier

Le premier semestre de l’année 2013 tire vers la fin et je voudrais m’attarder sur quelques faits majeurs relatifs à nos interventions au cours des cinq derniers mois.

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Rapport statistique sur les tendances mondiales

Selon le nouveau rapport statistique du HCR sur les tendances mondiales, les déplacements forcés n’ont jamais été aussi nombreux depuis 18 ans

Un rapport publié aujourd’hui par le HCR, le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, montre qu’il y a aujourd’hui davantage de réfugiés ou de déplacés internes qu’à tout autre moment depuis 1994(1), la crise en Syrie étant devenue un nouveau facteur majeur de déplacement forcé dans le monde.

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UNHCR Global Trends 2012: Displacement The New 21st Century Challenge

A UNHCR report says that more people are refugees or internally displaced than at any time since 1994, with the crisis in Syria having emerged as a major factor.

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Life without education doesn’t make sense

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CORD

Imagine having to flee the genocide in your own country to a refugee camp with few resources. What would you do? How would you forge a life?

For Mustapha Sinine Bara the choice was simple. Formerly a teacher in Sudan, he quickly became involved in education at Gaga camp. Today, nearly ten years after his arrival, he is director of the Djabal Mara School, the largest in the camp with 1,200 students.

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Mid-Year Review of the Consolidated Appeal for South Sudan 2013

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The mid-year review of the South Sudan Consolidated Appeal shows that although humanitarian needs remained very high in the first half of 2013, the situation has stabilized and even improved in some areas.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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GOROM Weekly Refugee Population Report as of 16th of June 2013

Week 24 (10-Jun-13 to 16-Jun-13)

Weekly registration 10-Jun-13 to 16-Jun-13

TOTAL NEW REGISTRATION: 0

Newly Registration Active: 0 Newly Registration Hold: 0 Newly Registered HH 0

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Monthly Humanitarian Situation Report Chad, May 27th, 2013

Highlights

  • UNICEF has delivered supply worth 1.2 million US$ for immediate assistance to 50,000 new returnees and refugees in the border area of Tissi following renewed violence in Darfur, Sudan

  • 40,540 Severe Acute Malnutrition new admissions have been registered as of April, representing 32.2% of the 127,000 admissions expected in 2013

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South Darfur Education Ministry delays start of school year for girls

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Radio Dabanga

The Ministry of Education and the government of South Darfur on Sunday announced a decision to postpone the start of the school year for basic and secondary education for girls.

The school year was scheduled to start for basic and secondary education on 23 and 30 June respectively.

The reason behind the decision is not clear, “except that it was implemented under the guidance of the council of ministers of the South Darfur state,” the announcement reads.

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Tchad Bulletin humanitaire - mai 2013

FAITS SAILLANTS

• L’accès aérien à Tissi reste un défi pour les acteurs humanitaires.

• La récente escalade de violence entre Boko Haram et l'armée nigériane a fait fuir plus d’un millier de migrants tchadiens à Ngouboua, dans la région du Lac.

• De la période des récoltes jusqu’au mois de mars, voire avril pour certains marchés sahéliens, les prix sont restés relativement stables avec une légère tendance à la baisse.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Global Emergency Overview Snapshot 10-17 June 2013

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.

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Ethiopia + 4 others
Ethiopia Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin, 17 June 2013

Potato blight infestation in Oromia Region

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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More help for victims of Sahel crisis: European Commission increases humanitarian aid

The new funds will provide food assistance, clean water and access to basic health services to women and children suffering from hunger and food insecurity.

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Woman, children killed by bombing in Darfur’s East Jebel Marra

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Radio Dabanga

EAST JEBEL MARRA(16 Jun.) - A 27-year-old woman and her two daughters of five and seven were killed when a "Sudanese Air Force Antonov" bombed their home on the outskirts of a village in East Jebel Marra on Sunday.

Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that Dar Naim Yahya (27), Hawa Saleh Abkar Savnier (7), and Miriyam Saleh Abkar Savnier (5) all died on Saturday when the aircraft dropped two bombs on their home as they were cooking in the courtyard.

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Darfuri displaced in Nyala camps appeal for aid, schools

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Radio Dabanga

NYALA(16 Jun.) - Displaced families who have fled the conflict zones of Umm Dukhun, Rahad El Berdi, Dimbar, Faih Murr and Shafwa are suffering “harsh humanitarian conditions” at camp Saraf in Nyala.

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, a spokesman for the displaced said that 1,288 families have come from the conflict zones of South and Central Darfur. “They fled Rahad El Berdi Rahad to Nyala in April last year, after the start of hostilities between the Misseriya and Salamat tribes,” he said.

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Nearly a third of children in Sudan malnourished - report

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Sudan Tribune

June 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese health ministry issued a report this week which found that 33% of children in the country are chronically malnourished while one in every twenty children is suffering from acute malnourishment.

The report also showed that there are 78 out of every 1,000 children who perish due to malnutrition adding that the nutrition situation in Sudan is characterized by "acute malnutrition" levels reaching 16.4 % which is above the global ratio of 15%.

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Central African Republic - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #1, (FY) 2013

HIGHLIGHTS

  • The Central African Republic (CAR) IDP population has increased nearly 300 percent since December 2012

  • 2013 CAR Consolidated Appeal (CAP) requests $139 million

  • Security conditions and humanitarian access across CAR remain fluid

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Global Overview: Comparison of Funding Status, Affected Population and Child Malnutrition (in 2012)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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World Food supplies 20,000 tons of food

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Miraya FM

(13th June, 2013) - The World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director, Lucy Mukami, said the organization has pre-positioned over 20,000 metric tons of food aid for Upper Nile State.

Director Mukami stated that the emergency food aid will be stored in warehouses in Maban, Upper Nile State and Ethiopia.

She also said that rations will be distributed to refugees every month for the rest of the year.

“We have cereals in the form of sorghum or maize including vegetable oil and salt to be distributed refugees monthly,” she said.

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Tchad Revue de Presse Humanitaire du 07 au 13 juin 2013

Les titres

· Le Tchad face au défi de l’eau potable (Xinhua, 07/06/13)

· Nigeria’s crisis sees more than 6000 people displaced into neighbouring countries (UNHCR, 11/06/13)

· Tchad : le CICR préoccupé par le sort des milliers de réfugiés dans l’Est (VOA, 12/06/13)

· Meeting a desperate need for clean water in camps for Darfuri refugees (IRC, 12/06/13)

· Sahel: le Coordonnateur humanitaire de l'ONU appelle à la mobilisation pour faire face à la crise alimentaire (CANU, 11/06/13)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Sudan Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 23 | 3 - 9 June 2013 [EN/AR]

Inter-tribal fighting between the Salamat and Misseriya tribes continues, but due to security concerns, humanitarian agencies have been unable to assess the needs of some 4,000 people in the region.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.