(Bamako/Dakar, le 18 juin 2013): Le Coordonnateur Humanitaire Régional pour le Sahel, M. Robert Piper, a achevé, aujourd’hui, une mission de deux jours au Mali. A Bamako, il a rencontré le Premier Ministre Diango Cissoko, les Ministres de l’Economie et des Finances, de l’Education, de la Santé, de l’Energie et de l’Eau ainsi que le représentant du Ministre de l’Action Humanitaire, de la Solidarité et des Personnes Agées. Leurs discussions ont porté sur la situation humanitaire et son financement dans le pays.

The goal of the Education Cluster is to enable a predictable, well coordinated response that addresses the education concerns of populations affected by humanitarian crises. The cluster promotes education in a humanitarian crisis by strengthening the capacity and preparedness of humanitarian personnel and government authorities to assess needs, identify priorities, and coordinate a response. The Education Cluster was established in 2007 as part of the cluster approach.

GAZIANTEP – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a generous contribution of €15 million (US$20 million) from the Government of Germany that will help provide critical food assistance to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the fighting in Syria. The latest contribution brings total German support to WFP’s Syria emergency operations to close to €25 million (US$33 million).

NAIROBI - The Government of Japan has contributed US $15 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance to people in the arid and semi-arid areas of Kenya. The contribution will also assist refugees in the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camp in the north of the country

Imagine having to flee the genocide in your own country to a refugee camp with few resources. What would you do? How would you forge a life?

For Mustapha Sinine Bara the choice was simple. Formerly a teacher in Sudan, he quickly became involved in education at Gaga camp. Today, nearly ten years after his arrival, he is director of the Djabal Mara School, the largest in the camp with 1,200 students.

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Puebla, Puebla, a 12 de junio de 2013.- Con el objetivo de reducir los índices de inseguridad alimentaria, el Gobernador del Estado de Puebla, Rafael Moreno Valle firmó con la Representante Residente del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en México, Marcia De Castro, un convenio de colaboración a través del cual se implementarán estrategias para trabajar conjuntamente en la evaluación y mejora de los programas alimentarios.

MOGADISHU, 18 June 2013 – More than one hundred Somali education experts are being hosted by the Somali Federal Government for a three day high level Conference in Mogadishu to discuss how to design an education system for the country after two decades of conflict. The National Education Conference was opened today by the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia who called it a key opportunity to provide Somali children with a brighter future.

Six months ago, Tropical Cyclone Evan devastated Fiji and Samoa. Heavy rain and winds of up to 270 kilometres per hour caused storm surges and waves up to four metres high. Thousands of people across both countries were displaced by the disaster which damaged or destroyed around 10,000 homes.