Highlights

• Cholera has re-appeared in Mali. Since 8 May, 21 cases have been reported in the Gao region.

• Partners estimate that around 1.4 million people are in immediate need of food assistance. An additional 2.1 million people are at risk.

• According to the latest estimates from the Population Movements Commission and UNHCR, 301,027 IDPs1 are living in Mali (as of 21 May), and 174,129 Malian refugees are living in neighbouring countries (as of 20 May).

Points saillants

• Le 13 mai, le Coordonnateur des secours d'urgence, le Coordonnateur Humanitaire et le HCR ont présenté la situation humanitaire en RCA aux Etats Membres à Genève.

• La réponse à l’épidémie de rougeole cible 150 000 enfants âgés de 6 à 59 mois pour une campagne de vaccination.

• Le Coordonnateur Humanitaire a participé à une mission conjointe des Nations Unies à Batalimo qui abrite quelques 6,000 réfugiés.

The Common Humanitarian Fund allocated $56 million towards emergency preparedness, allowing aid organizations to move stocks to areas difficult to access in the rainy season.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Prolonged dry weather has triggered significant drought in northern Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)

• A U.S. Government (USG) preliminary damage assessment team is scheduled to begin assessments of drought-affected areas in the coming days

• To date, USAID has responded with reverse osmosis machines and other pre-positioned relief supplies

The United Nations and the humanitarian community in Haiti launched a Humanitarian Action Plan for 2013 for 144 million dollars to meet assistance to IDPs; cholera epidemic response; reduction of food insecurity/malnutrition; emergency preparedness and response.

Period covered by this update: 7 February to 3 May 2013.

Summary: CHF 326,090 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 7 February 2013 to support the National Society in delivering assistance to some 16,370 beneficiaries (3,274 households) affected by floods.

With this operations update, a second allocation of CHF 4,603 from the DREF will be made to support a review of the intervention, making the total allocation from the DREF to the operation CHF 330,694.

I. Introduction

1 . The present report is submitted pursuant to the request of the Security Council contained in its resolution 2088 (2013). In accordance with the Council’s request, the report provides an update on the situation in the Central African Republic and an assessment of how the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA) could further implement its priorities in the light of recent developments in the country.

II. Update on major developments

A. Background

Highlights

• An ACF rapid food security assessment in Bossangoa reveals that 30 to 60% of farmers have planting seeds.

• Measles outbreak in Bouar. 25 suspected measles cases amongst children aged from 6 to 59 months reported.

Over 182,000 IDPs have returned so far, of which about 146,000 are in 11 districts of Abyan Governorate. About 322,444 IDPs continue to be displaced in the north (Sana’a included) and only 36,845 returnees to Sa’ada Governorate. Ethiopian migrants with the hope of crossing over to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continue to migrate into Yemen.