05/23/2013 15:20 GMT

Par Boureima HAMA

NIAMEY, 23 mai 2013 (AFP) - Un double attentat à la voiture piégée contre l'armée nigérienne et le groupe français Areva, revendiqué par les islamistes du Mujao, a fait jeudi dans le nord du Niger au moins 19 morts, essentiellement des militaires.

A Agadez, des élèves officiers sont retenus en otages par un assaillant impliqué dans l'opération perpétrée à l'aube contre un camp militaire de cette grande ville du nord désertique du Niger, selon le gouvernement.

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.

Debut mai, la tendance générale des prix des céréales sèches est à la : hausse au Mali, stabilité au Niger et baisse au Burkina

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.

Story by Lorraine Kazondovi

WINDHOEK - The Minister of Environment and Tourism (MET), Uahekua Herunga says he has not yet received an official request from State House for a game cull to mitigate the devastating drought in the country.

New developments

Registration resumed

On 8 May, the Department of Refugee Affairs (DRA) reopened registration of asylum seekers. This means that some 4,000 persons who have arrived to Dadaab since the closure of the latest two-week registration window on 30 November 2012 will now be registered and get access to services.

Security

TNN | May 23, 2013, 05.19 AM IST

MUMBAI: The state government ask governor K Sankarnarayanan to partially lift the stay imposed on taking up new irrigation projects. The proposal for lifting the stay was discussed at the state cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

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.

FAITS SAILLANTS

• Les premières réponses d’urgence s’organisent face à l’afflux de populations fuyant les violences au nord-Nigeria.

• L’épidémie de choléra semble se stabiliser, aucun nouveau cas n’a été enregistré ces derniers jours.

• La récurrence des crises alimentaires pousse de plus en plus de femmes et d’enfants des zones rurales à migrer vers la ville.