REGIONAL WATCH:

Hotspots

DR Congo: While conflict in the east is reducing, large areas remain in the control of different factions and with reports of indiscriminate violence against individuals (HRW Feb 13). These threats to personal security restrict movement diminishing household production as well as access to markets

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Généralités

HIGHLIGHTS

Localized heavy rain showers impact Somalia and Kenya

Food security in the region has improved as harvests start to reach the markets

DRC Crisis: more than 772,450 people have been displaced in North Kivu since January 2009

Ethiopia: number of severely malnourished children declines for third straight month in August

Up to 3,000 IDP families in need of humanitarian support in Luuq, Somalia

South Sudan: health situation in Upper Nile refugee camps remains fragile

Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak kills five in Uganda

GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo — In 30 years of fighting poachers, Paul Onyango had never seen anything like this. Twenty-two dead elephants, including several very young ones, clumped together on the open savanna, many killed by a single bullet to the top of the head.

Read the full article in the New York Times.

This conflict trend report from ACLED is the fourth of our monthly reports that focus on regional conflict trends within Africa. In this issue, we concentrate our analysis on recent political violence in DRCongo, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan.
Analysis of these countries is focused on the month of June 2012, with reference to violence patterns over the course of ACLED’s dataset. Present conflict patterns are compared with recent violent trends, highlighting new patterns, actors and locations.

This conflict trend report from ACLED is the third of our monthly reports that focus on regional conflict trends within Africa. We concentrate our analysis on recent political violence in DR-Congo, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan & South Sudan, Zimbabwe, and North African states including Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

Analysis is focused on the month of May 2012, with reference to violence patterns over the course of the last three months. Present conflict patterns are compared with recent violent with new trends, actors and locations highlighted.

CENTRAL AFRICA

The Lord’s Resistance Army Populations in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan continue to be at r isk of at tack by the Lord ’s Resistance Army, which has perpetrated crimes against humanity for more than twenty years.

BACKGROUND

Eastern DR Congo displacement “disastrous”: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today expressed his alarm at new inflows of refugees into Rwanda and Uganda from fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNHCR staff in Rwanda report that more than 8200 refugees have crossed from DRC since April 27, most of them staying near the border. These are in addition to the 55,000 Congolese refugees that Rwanda is already hosting.

Today's IPI policy discussion engaged several members of the g7+ about the implementation of the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States at the global and country level. Presentations were given by Helder da Costa, Head of the g7+ Secretariat; Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance and Chair of the g7+, Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste; Francesca Bomboko, Ministry of Planning, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Ali Dirir Farah, Deputy Minister of Finance and Treasury of Somalia.