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MISRATA [ACTED News] - ACTED has recently completed a new cleaning and light repairs project targeting 12 conflict-affected schools in Ajdabiya, in the east of Libya. This follows the successful completion of cleaning in 11 non conflict-affected schools previously. The project, which ran from December 2011 until March 2012, involved carrying out carpentry, plumbing, plastering, painting and integral structural repairs, in coordination with UNICEF. Immediately upon completion of repairs, each school has been thoroughly cleaned, to ensure that they are ready to welcome pupils once more.

ZALINGEI [ACTED News] - A poor harvest in 2012 following low and intermittent seasonal rainfall has once again made food insecurity a growing concern in Darfur. Prices of staple foods such as sorghum and wheat have risen as much as 65% in conflict-affected areas. ACTED is responding through food security interventions supporting 2,700 households and returnees some of the worst affected rural areas around Zalingei.

At Jamam refugee camp in Upper Nile State, South Sudan where ACTED is the camp manager, community mobilization is at the heart of program activities, especially as humanitarian partners prepare Jamam for the onset of the rainy season. Jamam refugee camp currently hosts approximately 37,000 refugees from Blue Nile State, Sudan who have been arriving in the camp since December 2011.

BAGHDAD [ACTED News] - 776 displaced families living in squatter settlements in Baghdad received water tanks and hygiene kits distributed by ACTED. These distributions are part of a larger program to improve the living conditions of poverty-stricken families still displaced due to the violence of 2003. ACTED is also distributing shelter materials to the most vulnerable of these families and employing over 150 people though cash for work to improve the structural integrity of their homes. This project is funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

NAIROBI [ACTED News] - The poor performance of the 2012 long rains (March – May season) predicted for the Horn of Africa threatens to reverse recovery efforts and negatively affect food security for people struggling to recover from the region’s worst food crisis during the past century.

ABIDJAN [ACTED News] - ACTED is implementing a project to support schooling for the most vulnerable populations to fight systemic poverty in Abidjan. The lack of schooling is due to financial problems: the parents will be supported in the recovery of income generating activities and with cash for work activities for the rehabilitation of 10 schools. This project is supported by the Japanese International Cooperation.

SANA’A [ACTED News] – 44% Yemeni households were identified as food insecure by end 2011, according to a World Food Programme-UNICEF nationwide survey. ACTED will tackle this crucial issue in the governorate of Ibb, Raymah and Ad-Dalee, where no other international humanitarian actor is involved in the field of food security while more than 50% of the households were reported food insecure.