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Appeal target (current): CHF 750,000 (USD 731,134 or EUR 462,475);

Appeal coverage: donor support is currently being recorded, and will be made available in the next update

Appeal history:

- This Emergency Appeal was initially launched on a preliminary basis on 11 July 2008 for CHF 750,000 for 2

months to assist 47,500 beneficiaries.

- Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF): CHF 483,047 was allocated from the Federation's DREF to support the national society to respond.

Summary:

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

At a regional level, humanitarian partners have for 2008 agreed to focus on five priority areas for humanitarian interventions in West Africa:

- Food Security and Nutrition;

- Rapid Response to Health Emergencies;

- Protection and Population Movements;

- Natural Disaster Preparedness;

- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.

Afin de diminuer l'impact des précipitations anormalement importantes qui sont annoncées pour la région par les organismes de prédiction météorologique qui travaillent en partenariat avec la Fédération internationale, des mesures immédiates ont été décidées afin d'éviter l'étendue des dégâts et la misère qui ont frappé la région l'année dernière.

CHF 483,047 has been allocated from the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to start the planned activities. Discussions are currently taking place to reallocate approximately CHF 550,000 remaining from the 2007 West Africa floods appeal to support this appeal. While these discussions are underway, partners are encouraged to provide timely support to this appeal.

But when a little rain, which is often initially welcomed, comes day after day and week after week - the water does become a problem. It drowns and rots the crops, kills livestock, causes rivers to overflow, causes landslides (that then destroy homes and communities), and increases the risk of diseases like malaria, dysentery and dengue fever.

In the last year, tens of millions of children and families have been directly affected by flooding - hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes. Since July alone, massive flooding

- Lowering or cutting taxes on food product tariffs

- Burkina Faso : The centre of the country faces food insecurity

- Mauritania: A serious food crisis predicted

- Guinea Bissau: Cereal stocks are dwindling

- Togo: Food security of flood affected households threatened

- Niger: Food insecurity on the rise

- Senegal: The government grants US$24 million to rural populations

- Ghana: 15 Liberians refugees repatriated

- Security situation worsens in northern Mali

- CERF allocates over US$2 million to Niger and Burkina Faso

- Four French tourists killed in Mauritania

- An anti-tank mine exploded in southern Niger

- The Niger government warns against sabotage acts

- Hostages detained by rebels are to be released on 28 December

- Mali and Guinea make efforts to bring durable solutions to border conflict

- Agricultural production decrease in Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal

- Disarmament launched in Côte d'Ivoire

- Avian flu detected in Benin

- Future opening of an OHCHR office in West Africa

- Dear cost of living cause violent protests in Senegal

- Explosion d'une Mine anti-char dans le sud du Niger

- Mise en garde du gouvernement nigérien contre d'éventuels actes de sabotage

- Accord entre le Mali et l'Algérie pour sécuriser la frontière

- Efforts du Mali et de la Guinée pour une solution définitive du conflit à la frontière

- Production agricole en baisse au Cap Vert, Ghana, Nigeria et Sénégal

- Désarmement annoncé en Côte d'Ivoire

- Grippe aviaire détectée au Bénin

- Ouverture prochaine d'un bureau régional du HCDH en Afrique de l'ouest

- La cherté de la vie à l'origine de