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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:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Niger : Aperçu humanitaire sur le choléra (au 15 Mai 2013)

Après plusieurs mois d’extinction, l’épidémie de choléra aurait fait sa réapparition dans la région de Tillabéry où 210 cas seraient confirmés. Six personnes en seraient décédées.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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L’OMS fait une donation au MSP de médicaments, de matériels médicaux et informatiques d’une valeur de 767 millions FCFA pour la réponse aux urgences sanitaires

Le Représentant de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) au Niger, Dr Assimawè PANA, a procédé le samedi 11 mai 2013 à la remise officielle au Ministre de la Santé publique (MSP), M. Soumana Sanda d’un lot de médicaments, de matériels médicaux et informatiques d’une valeur de 767.753.469 FCFA.

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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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Niger/Mali – Cholera (ECHO Daily Flash, 17/05/2013)

A cholera outbreak has been reported in the Tilabery region of Niger, with 198 cases and six deaths reported so far, including cases in the refugee camps and Niamey. The Nigerien Ministry of Health has officially declared an epidemic.

There is a high risk that the disease could spread along the Niger river, and nine suspected cases have been reported in the Gao region of Mali.

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Senegal + 9 others
La bourse DAFI, clef du succès pour les réfugiés les plus brillants

Dakar, 16 mai (HCR) – Abdoulaye Ndongo, âgé de 37 ans, est arrivé au Sénégal en 1989. Il avait 13 ans. Il se rappelle encore ce jour d'été, où il a été déporté de Mauritanie pour le Sénégal avec seulement les vêtements qu'il portait ce jour-là. Toutefois, Ndongo a eu la chance de traverser le fleuve Sénégal sans être séparé de ses parents, ce qui n'a pas été le cas pour beaucoup d'autres enfants réfugiés.

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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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Mali + 8 others
Charte de qualité de l’information sur la sécurité alimentaire au Sahel

Ce document comprend trois parties pouvant être utilisées ensemble ou séparément. L'objectif visé par ce découpage est double:

  • permettre de décliner aisément des documents destinés à des publics différents notamment lors de la future phase de sensibilisation qui doit aboutir à son adoption ; éviter une approche trop pointue, notamment en ce qui concerne certains aspects statistiques que peuvent << rebuter >> ou lasser une partie du public destinataire.
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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).

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Mobile Survey Empowers Citizens to Assess Justice Services in Niger

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World Bank

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The new Government of Niger has focused on improving governance and anti-corruption and established a hotline to help bring citizens closer to government and address corruption issues in the judicial system.

  • ODTA-ICT4Gov worked with the Ministry of Justice and mobile phone operators in Niger to develop and integrate a mobile based survey aimed to evaluate the hotline in terms of the population’s knowledge of and satisfaction with its use and accessibility.

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Niger : près de 800,000 personnes en situation d'insécurité alimentaire

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UN Radio

La période de soudure correspondant aux mois de juin à août dans le Sahel est toujours une source de préoccupation pour les organismes humanitaires. Et une enquête sur la base du suivi mensuel de la situation alimentaire du SAP, réalisée en mars 2013, révèle que la situation est critique dans 13 zones du Niger. Ainsi, 800 000 personnes se trouvent en insécurité alimentaire et dans ce lot, 84000 personnes sont en insécurité alimentaire critique. N'ayant plus de réserve alimentaire, ces populations vulnérables ont besoin d'une assistance immédiate.

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Mali + 4 others
Greening: We must break the cycle of food shortages in Western Africa

Emergency relief for the most vulnerable people in Mali and the West African Sahel region

The UK will help to prevent desperate food shortages and make Mali and the West African Sahel more stable and secure, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced.

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Mali + 13 others
Les points forts des recherches récentes de l’IFPRI en matière de politiques alimentaires en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre

La recherche sur les politiques alimentaires au service de la réduction de la pauvreté et de la faim

International Food Policy Research Institute:

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Highlights of recent IFPRI food policy research in the West and Central Africa region

In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production but also on the policies that affect an entire food system, from farm to table. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was founded in 1975, the same year as the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, which formally created the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

International Food Policy Research Institute:

Copyright © International Food Policy Research Institute

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Mali + 3 others
Mali Operation Regional Overview (as of 10 May 2013)

The security situation, which had remained largely calm during the month of April, deteriorated on the 21st April with the takeover of Ber, located 53 km east of Timbuktu, by the Mouvement Arabe de l’Azawad (MAA), and this occurred two weeks after two serious security incidents in Timbuktu.
The incident in Ber further illustrates the growing tension between the Tuareg and Arab communities.

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Niger + 2 others
Niger offers reward to help eradicate Guinea worm

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Voice of America

NIAMEY — Niger is offering cash rewards to anyone reporting a case of Guinea worm as part of efforts to permanently eradicate the parasitic disease in the impoverished West African nation, the health ministry said.

Though it once afflicted around 3.5 million people annually across Asia and Africa, according to the U.S.-based Carter Center, Guinea worm disease is now on the verge of being eradicated worldwide.

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Some 800,000 people to need food aid in Niger- UN

Despite a good harvest last year, additional aid is required due to problems with supplying cereals to markets and an influx of Malian refugees.

Reuters - AlertNet:



For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit www.trust.org/alertnet

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Mali + 8 others
Sahel Crisis 2013: Funding Status as of 13 May 2013

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.