(Bamako, 24 mai 2013) : Les personnes touchées par l’insécurité alimentaire au Mali sont estimées à environ 3,5 millions dont 1,4 million en besoin d’assistance immédiate selon des analyses publiées en mai. Ces nouveaux chiffres montrent une détérioration de la situation comparativement au début de l’année quand 2 millions de personnes étaient touchées par l’insécurité alimentaire dont 747 000 en besoin d’assistance immédiate. Depuis janvier, les acteurs humanitaires ont assisté près de 500 000 personnes touchées par l’insécurité alimentaire.

Faits saillants

• L’épidémie de choléra a fait sa réapparition au Mali. 21 cas ont été notifiés dans la région de Gao depuis le 8 mai.

• Le nombre des personnes en besoin d'assistance alimentaire immédiate est maintenant estimé à environ 1,4 million et celui des personnes à risque à environ 2,1 millions.

• Les personnes déplacées internes (PDI) sont estimées à 301 0271 par la commission Mouvement de Population au 21 mai tandis que les réfugiés Maliens dans les pays limitrophes étaient au nombre de 174 129 au 20 mai.

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.

Last summer, Aissata Diallo watched her son leave their village in northern Mali. She did not want to let him go, but since her husband died, she had struggled to feed her four children — and at the height of the region’s hunger crisis, their situation had become desperate.

“I have no source of income and no plot to grow food,” she explained. “Often all we had is what neighbors gave me from the rest of their meal.”

So her oldest son, still far from an adult, went looking for work to help the family. She hasn’t heard from him since.

Government of Japan Provides more Support to UNMAS Humanitarian Mine Action Work in Africa

NEW YORK, New York, 22 May 2013 — The Government of Japan donated an additional six million US dollars in April to the UN Trust Fund in support of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) to support United Nations humanitarian mine action activities in Mali. Earlier this year Japan gave 18 million dollars to the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action for mine action work in Africa and in Afghanistan.

05/22/2013 20:39 GMT

OUAGADOUGOU, 22 mai 2013 (AFP) - La rébellion touareg MNLA, qui occupe Kidal, dans le nord-est du Mali, est prête à permettre la tenue de la présidentielle en juillet dans cette ville mais refuse d'y laisser entrer l'armée malienne, a déclaré mercredi l'un de ses responsables.

The situation in these regions is critical and humanitarian aid is still very limited

Operational Highlights

The security situation, had remained largely calm during the month of May. Following recent events, in particular the arrival of an estimated 2,367 Niger citizens and 126 Nigeria citizens from Nigeria , as well as the declaration of a state of emergency in three federal states neighboring Diffa region, UNHCR Niger has dispatched on 17 May a contingency mission to Diffa town and region.

Jeddah, KSA-16.05.2013 - The Islamic Development Bank is contributing US$250 million for the development of the Republic of Mali. This was disclosed by IDB Vice President (Corporate Services), Dr Ahmet Tiktik, on behalf of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Dr Tiktik was speaking at the international conference for the reconstruction of Mali which took place in the city of Brussels on 15th May 2013.