The UN’s senior humanitarian representative in the Sahel region of West Africa has called on the international community to maintain its commitment to millions of people who face another year threatened by malnutrition, displacement, conflict and high food prices.

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Testimony, Donald Y. Yamamoto
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs
Opening Statement
Washington, DC
May 21, 2013

[Before the House Subcommittees on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights; International Organizations; Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade; Middle East and North Africa]

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.

FAITS SAILLANTS

• De nouveaux cas de choléra enregistrés à Tillabéry et Niamey, une amélioration de la desserte en eau de la ville d’Ayorou serait une piste de solution à l’épidémie
• Baisse subite des prix des céréales à Zinder
• Flambée de cas de rougeole à Zinder et Agadez

Au menu:

· Tchad : ouverture d'un sommet sur le développement durable, la pauvreté et le climat (AFP, 11/05/13)

· Le Tchadien Djimet Adoum nommé secrétaire exécutif du CILSS (AFP, 13/05/13)

· Canada provides emergency assistance for refugees and displaced in eastern Chad (CIDA, 13/05/13)

· Nigeria declares 'massive' military campaign on borders (BBC, 15/05/13)

· Greening: We must break the cycle of food shortages in Western Africa (DFID, 15/05/13)

· UN envoy says CAR in 'state of anarchy' (Al Jazeera, 16/05/13)

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• permettre de décliner aisément des documents destinés à des publics différents notamment lors de la future phase de sensibilisation qui doit aboutir à son adoption ; éviter une approche trop pointue, notamment en ce qui concerne certains aspects statistiques que peuvent << rebuter >> ou lasser une partie du public destinataire.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has pledged more financial aid to war-torn Mali to help rebuild the country after months of conflict.

Vice President Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo, made this pledge in Brussels at the International Donors Conference on the Development of Mali organized by the European Union and the Mali’s transitional government.

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production but also on the policies that affect an entire food system, from farm to table. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was founded in 1975, the same year as the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, which formally created the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).