HIGHLIGHTS

• Violence in Jonglei State displaces civilians and restricts humanitarian access

• U.S. Government (USG) provides additional $5 million to assist populations in South Sudan

• Humanitarian community pre-positions relief supplies in advance of rainy season

République Démocratique du Congo, Lubumbashi, le 11 mars 2013 – Afin de venir au secours des personnes fuyant les accrochages entre les groupes armés Mai Mai et les Forces Armées de la RDC (FARDC) dans la province du Katanga, l’Agence Américaine pour le Développement International, Service Américain d’Assistance aux catastrophes à l’étranger (USAID/OFDA) remet aujourd’hui des articles d’urgence au Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance (UNICEF).

Media Note Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
February 11, 2013

The United States is pleased to announce an initial contribution of over $171 million toward the 2013 operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

KAMPALA –U.S. Mission Uganda has announced a donation of $12 million to the UN World Food Program (WFP) Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation in support of refugees in Uganda and the chronically food-insecure people in the Karamoja region.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide the funding to WFP on behalf of the American people. The contribution advances the U. S. Government’s food security initiative, Feed the Future, which aims to sustainably reduce hunger, poverty, and under-nutrition.

By Martin on November 26, 2012 in Disaster Relief

History

JOHANNESBURG, 5 November 2012 (IRIN) - The Child Soldier Prevention Act (CSPA) was a prime example of US bipartisan human rights legislation: sponsored by Democratic and Republican senators and signed into law in 2008 by Republican President George Bush, the law entered into force under the Democratic presidency of Barack Obama. But even armed with this political consensus, the US consistently shies away from using the full spectrum of the law, citing national security interests.

This week, renewed violence between Arakan Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims took place in Rahkin state in Myanmar, affecting an estimated 28,000 people. Sectarian violence between the two communities in June already left more than 75,000 people displaced. Despite a four-day truce that was supposed to come into effect on Friday 26 October, fighting has continued in Damascus province, Aleppo, Idlib, Daara and Deir Ezzor in Syria. The number of flood-affected people in Chad has risen to 700,000, up from 445,000 in September, with 16 of the country’s 22 regions affected.

Kinshasa, 3 Oct 12

UN-Habitat's land reform programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo has received a major shot in the arm following two additional fundings.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently signed a grant agreement with UN-Habitat to expand the implementation of a land program in DR Congo through to 2014. The grant totaling USD 2.5 million will be channeled towards tackling land disputes in Eastern DR Congo as part of the land reform efforts already in progress.

This is the final Central African Republic fact sheet for FY 2012.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

• On September 1, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels abducted 19 civilians and killed two in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR). The ongoing threat of violence and abduction as a result of LRA presence in southeastern CAR and active armed groups in northern areas of the country has displaced nearly 27,000 people in 2012, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).