1,112 updates found
Toggle text

Somalia + 12 others
Regional mixed migration summary for April 2013

(excerpt)

Djibouti

Events /trends/ data / analysis

New Arrivals: In April 2013, an estimated 4,615 migrants arrived on Yemen’s shores via Djibouti, a 46% decrease from March. 80% of these migrants were Ethiopians while the rest were Somali.

Boats: A total of 66 vessels left via the Red Sea for Yemen carrying an average of 69 passengers per trip in the month of April.

Toggle text

Jammam Population Statistics as of 19 May 13

TOTAL NEW REGISTRATION: 0
Newly Registration Active: 0
Newly Registration Hold: 0
Newly Registered HH 0

  • New Birth: 0 (0%)
  • Minor: 0 (0%)
  • Female: 0 (0%)
  • Unaccompanied and Separated Children: 0
  • Women at risk: 0
  • All individuals with specific needs have been referred to concerned partners
  • An individual may have more than one specific needs

INACTIVE/CLOSURE AND REACTIVATION:
- Died: 0
- Other: 0
- Reactivation: 0
Inactivation reasons are

Toggle text

Yusuf Batil Population Statistics as of 19 May 13

TOTAL NEW REGISTRATION: 400
Newly Registration Active: 400
Newly Registration Hold: 0
Newly Registered HH 243

Toggle text

Militia attacks, diseases kill 10 in South Darfur camp

Report
Radio Dabanga

EL SALAM CAMP (21 May.) - The poor humanitarian conditions for displaced people at El Salam camp in South Darfur are deteriorating as thousands continue to arrive at the site. To aggravate the situation, a sheikh said that this week alone, eight people died of disease while two were killed by militiamen.

Toggle text

World + 8 others
Medical care in the line of fire

Report
ICRC, MSF

Armed men in hospitals, harassing patients; health facilities used to identify and apprehend enemies; clinics abandoned and hospitals destroyed. Overwhelmed emergency services, where medical staff are in terror of reprisals for having provided care for a patient; ambulances blocked from accessing the wounded, or held up for hours at checkpoints; entrenched animosities and divisions denying certain groups of people the medical assistance they need.

Toggle text

Chad + 2 others
Le HCR prépositionne des biens de secours pour les réfugiés du Darfour à Tissi avant la saison des pluies dans l'est du Tchad

Points de presse, 17 mai 2013

Ceci est un résumé des déclarations du porte-parole du HCR Dan McNorton – à qui toute citation peut être attribuée – lors de la conférence de presse du 17 mai 2013 au Palais des Nations à Genève.

Toggle text

World + 37 others
Global Emergency Overview Snapshot 13 - 21 May 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.

Toggle text

World + 18 others
Managing acute malnutrition at scale - A review of donor and government financing arrangements (Network Paper Issue 75)

Introduction

This review is concerned with the financing arrangements for programmes that address acute malnutrition at scale through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). The CMAM approach is geared towards the early detection, treatment and counselling of moderately and severely acutely malnourished children, in the community, by community agents.

Toggle text

South Sudan Humanitarian Update January-April 2013

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.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

Toggle text

Chad + 2 others
UNHCR prepositioning aid for Darfur refugees in Tissi ahead of rains in eastern Chad

The UN refugee agency is prepositioning aid for tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad amid fears heavy rains will cut off access.

Toggle text

Sudan Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 19 | 6 - 12 May 2013

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.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

Toggle text

Sudan: North Kordofan and South Kordofan Population Movement DREF operation n° MDRSD017

Report
IFRC

CHF 282,784 has been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Sudanese Red Crescent Society in delivering immediate assistance to some 11,480 IDPs. Unearmarked funds to repay DREF are encouraged.

Summary:

Toggle text

R2P Monitor - 15 May 2013 Issue 9

(Extract)

R2P Monitor:

» Provides background on populations at risk of mass atrocity crimes, with particular emphasis on key events and actors and their connection to the threat, or commission, of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

» Offers analysis of the country’s past history in relation to mass atrocity crimes; the factors that have enabled their possible commission, or that prevent their resolution; and the receptivity of the situation to positive influences that would assist in preventing further crimes.

Toggle text

Jamam Camp Snapshot, April 2013

Highlights

UNHCR began on 06 May 2013, the relocation of 18,200 Sudanese refugees from flood prone Jamam refugee camp, to the new site, Kaya, ahead of the onset of this year’s seasonal rains.

Clashes between host and refugee communities in Doro camp illustrate the possible threat of civil unrest across Maban. Efforts are underway to bring the two communities together.

Over 95% of refugee children have been immunized during the national polio immunization campaign this month.

Toggle text

Yusuf Batil Population statistics as of 05 May 13

TOTAL POPULATION REGISTERED TO DATE:

  • 37,867 individuals(Active: 37,867 & Hold: 0)
  • 9,336 households
  • Female headed households: 3,405(36%)

Cumulative statistics
From 01-Jan-13 To 05-May-13
New Registered Refugees: 274
New Birth: 291

INTER CAMP TRANSFER TO JAMMAM,Doro,DORO
MOBILESERVER,GENDRASSA
- Transfer HH: 18
- Transfer Individual: 52

Toggle text

SRF: ‘Sudan’ air raid kills three in Abu Karshola, South Kordofan

Report
Radio Dabanga

ABU KARSHOLA (14 May.) - Two children and a woman have been killed in an air raid on the village of Hajar Kenena, on the outskirts of Abu Karshola on Monday, according to a spokesman for the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF). He added that seven others, including three children, were wounded in the attack.

Colonel Al Gadi Rumboy told Radio Dabanga that a Sudanese Air Force aircraft dropped 12 bombs on the village, killing Suad Sebil Adam (30), Fatima Hamad Al Nil (15) and Awatif Ibrahim Younis (7).

Toggle text

Sudanese teen takes mother's advice to embrace education rather than fear it

GENDRASSA, South Sudan, May 13 (UNHCR) – Takwa Baderdin is a shy 16-year-old girl who avoids making eye contact with people she does not know, but at the mention of her recent academic success her downcast eyes light up with pride.

Like other children in South Sudan, Takwa was required to sit exams to complete her primary education. But unlike the majority of those children, Takwa and her family have faced life-changing challenges, fleeing their home in Sudan and restarting their lives in a refugee camp.

Toggle text

Ethiopia + 4 others
Ethiopia Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin, 13 May 2013

Refugee Update

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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