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Niger + 2 others
Niger Bulletin humanitaire numéro 19 - 17 mai 2013

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
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Chad + 6 others
Tchad : Revue de Presse Humanitaire du 10 au 16 mai 2013

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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Mali + 2 others
Spindelegger: “Working together for a new Mali”

Austria provides aid at International Donor Conference for Mali

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Niger + 1 other
Niger : près de 800,000 personnes en situation d'insécurité alimentaire

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UN Radio

La période de soudure correspondant aux mois de juin à août dans le Sahel est toujours une source de préoccupation pour les organismes humanitaires. Et une enquête sur la base du suivi mensuel de la situation alimentaire du SAP, réalisée en mars 2013, révèle que la situation est critique dans 13 zones du Niger. Ainsi, 800 000 personnes se trouvent en insécurité alimentaire et dans ce lot, 84000 personnes sont en insécurité alimentaire critique. N'ayant plus de réserve alimentaire, ces populations vulnérables ont besoin d'une assistance immédiate.

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Mali donor conference raises 3.25 bn euros

International donors pledged much more than expected to help Mali avoid the mistakes which allowed Islamist rebels to seize vast swathes of the troubled country.

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Mali + 4 others
Greening: We must break the cycle of food shortages in Western Africa

Emergency relief for the most vulnerable people in Mali and the West African Sahel region

The UK will help to prevent desperate food shortages and make Mali and the West African Sahel more stable and secure, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced.

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Civil war refugees are in desperate need for help - only 28 percent of the demands can be met by the support promised so far

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) demands that Europe should provide more humanitarian aid for more than 440,000 civil war refugees in Mali. On Tuesday, the human rights organization recalled that, according to UN figures, only 28 percent of the required 315 million Euros have been provided. "France spent more than 200 million Euros on the military operation in northern Mali alone, so surely it should be possible for the international community to provide help for the needy," said the STP's Africa-expert, Ulrich Delius, in Göttingen on Tuesday.

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8 Things To Know About Hunger In Mali

A year of conflict in the West African nation of Mali has brought hunger to hundreds of thousands of people. Drought and endemic poverty have also taken their toll. Here are 8 things to know about hunger in Mali and what WFP is doing to deliver food and hope to the people who live there.

  1. The food security and nutrition situation in northern Mali has deteriorated significantly following a conflict in the northern part of the county which has forced some 475,000 people from their homes while making it difficult to reach those who stayed behind with assistance.

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Mali + 1 other
Funding to ensure access to health services for children in the Sahel (May 13, 2013)

Pascal Canfin, Minister Delegate for Development, announced the launch of a €30 million initiative to ensure access to health services for children in Mali and other countries in the Sahel which will be funded by a portion of the French tax on financial transactions.

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Toutes les nuits les filles reçoivent la visite d’un nouvel homme, d’un « nouveau mari » : Saran Keïta Diakité raconte

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UN Women

Saran Keïta Diakité est avocate malienne et présidente du Réseau paix et Sécurité des Femmes de l’espace de la Communauté des États d’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) section du Mali. A l’occasion de la Conférence internationale de haut niveau pour le soutien et le développement du Mali, elle nous parle dans ses propres mots sur les atrocités qui se produisent dans son pays, qui a été en proie à l’instabilité politique et la prolifération des groupes armés qui ont déraciné plus de 415.000 personnes depuis un coup d’état militaire en Mars 2012.

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Girls receive a visit from a different man every night, a ‘new husband’: In the words of Saran Keïta Diakité

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UN Women

Saran Keïta Diakité is a lawyer in Mali and President of the Malian branch of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (Réseau Paix et Sécurité des Femmes de l’Espace CEDEAO). As the Donor Conference on Mali starts in Brussels, in her own words she speaks about the atrocities occurring in her country, which has been plagued by political instability and the proliferation of armed groups that have uprooted more than 415,000 people since a military coup d’état in March 2012.

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Resumption of aid needed to help thousands of displaced families

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Tearfund

Mali Donor Conference, Brussels - 15 May

A donor conference on Mali is being hosted by the EU and the French Government in Brussels to discuss how to help rebuild the country after months of conflict and regional instability. It will focus on resuming development aid (following the freeze imposed as a result of the coup in March last year), supporting the plan for Mali 2013-14, and securing funds for that purpose.

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Health Emergency Highlights, April 2013

Situation highlights

The health situation across the Republic of South Sudan remains fragile and unpredictable. There are high risks of communicable diseases, floods and drought, low access to safe drinking water, food insecurity, and poor sanitation. Environmental factors contribute to the spread of diseases such as water and vector-borne diseases like diarrhoeal diseases, hepatitis, malaria and dengue fever.

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Chad + 1 other
Address risk of child soldiers before participating in Mali’s UN peacekeeping operation

The international community should increase pressure on Chad to end child recruitment before it is allowed to contribute to the UN peacekeeping force in Mali, urges Child Soldiers International.