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Niger + 1 other
Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger

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MSF

Cholera has broken out in northern Niger, in an area now inhabited by large numbers of Malian refugees who fled conflict in their homeland.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated all of the nearly 250 people affected by the cholera outbreak in northern Niger that was declared by the country’s health authorities on May 11. MSF has also opened two cholera treatment centers in the regions of Mangaïzé and Ayorou, north of the capital, Niamey. Six people have died in the outbreak thus far, however.

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Chad + 5 others
Tchad : Revue de Presse Humanitaire du 18 au 23 mai 2013

LES TITRES

 Le Tchad confronté à un afflux de réfugiés venus du Nigeria (RFI, 21/05/2013)

 Emergency Response Grows in Chad (VOA, 21/05/2013)

 Chad Commits to an Acceleration of the Action Plan to End the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers (UN, 22/05/2013)

 Sahel: millions need long-term support (OCHA, 22/05/2013)

 Conspiration présumée au Tchad: deux députés et deux militaires laissés en liberté provisoire (RFI, 23/05/2013

 La BAD lance de nouvelles autoroutes de l’information (BAD, 22/05/2013)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Mali + 2 others
TSF helping Malian refugees for more than a year

For more than a year on the Mali borders, TSF has been reinforcing the coordination among the humanitarian actors working with Malian refugees.

In the Sahel region, the security conditions have significantly deteriorated in March 2012 with the massive arrival in Mali neighboring countries of refugees fleeing the fighting between the Tuareg rebels and the regular army. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) there are more than 174,000 refugees in the neighbouring countries.

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Burkina Faso + 1 other
4054 refugiés Maliens bénéficient de kits d’hygiène

Du 06 au 07 avril 2013, le projet kit d’hygiène de la Croix-Rouge Burkinabè a procédé à sa troisième distribution de kits au profit des refugiés maliens sur les sites de Saag-Nioniongo à 35 kilomètres de Ouagadougou et de Bobo Dioulasso. Cette distribution, qui s’est faite simultanément dans les 02 localités, contenait une double ration et couvrira une période de 02 mois.

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Mali + 3 others
Sahel: Millions need long-term support

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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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Niger + 1 other
Niger Bulletin humanitaire numéro 20 - 22 mai 2013

FAITS SAILLANTS

• Les premières réponses d’urgence s’organisent face à l’afflux de populations fuyant les violences au nord-Nigeria.

• L’épidémie de choléra semble se stabiliser, aucun nouveau cas n’a été enregistré ces derniers jours.

• La récurrence des crises alimentaires pousse de plus en plus de femmes et d’enfants des zones rurales à migrer vers la ville.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Mali + 10 others
The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region

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]

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Mali + 8 others
Sahel Humanitarian Dashboard (May 2013)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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World + 37 others
Global Emergency Overview Snapshot 13 - 21 May 2013

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

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Niger + 1 other
UNHCR working in Niger to contain cholera epidemic in refugee camps

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days.

A cholera epidemic declared by the Niger government on May 11 has left 7 people dead in the west of the country, including 2 Malian refugees.

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Mauritania + 1 other
In a refugee camp, getting more children in school and more schools for children

Mauritania is the largest recipient of refugees fleeing the crisis in Mali. There are about 74,000 Malian refugees in the Mbera camp, more than half of them children under 18.

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Niger + 2 others
Soutien aux éleveurs des régions d'Agadez et de Tillabery

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ICRC

Genève / Niamey (CICR) – Pour soutenir des communautés rendues vulnérables par les effets conjugués de facteurs climatiques et des conséquences de conflits armés dans la région (Mali et Libye), une opération de rachat d'environ 8 000 têtes de bétail aux éleveurs des régions de Tillabery et d'Agadez – respectivement dans l'ouest et dans le nord du pays – vient d'être lancée par le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR).

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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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Mali + 8 others
Sahel Crisis 2013: Funding Status as of 17 May 2013

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Niger + 2 others
ICRC supports herders in Agadez and Tillabery areas

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ICRC

Geneva/Niamey (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is purchasing approximately 8,000 head of cattle from herdsmen in the Tillabery and Agadez areas (in the west and north of the country, respectively) to support communities made vulnerable by the combined effects of climate and of conflict in Mali and Libya..

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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)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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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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Mali + 4 others
United States announces additional humanitarian assistance to Mali

Media Note, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
May 16, 2013

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World + 48 others
Global Food Security Update - Issue 10, May 2013

Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 ‘minimal’ or phase 2 ‘stressed’ conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.

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Mali + 3 others
Interview with Lucas Riegger, Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer in Mali

One year after the food crisis and the takeover of northern territories of the country by armed groups in Mali, the humanitarian situation is critical and its effects are making themselves felt throughout the region. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been in the country for 35 years, and has had to adapt to these successive crises. Since mid-February 2013, Lucas Riegger, a member of the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit, has been providing support for the activities of the SDC’s Cooperation Office (Coof).