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In a refugee camp, getting more children in school and more schools for children

Mauritania is the largest recipient of refugees fleeing the crisis in Mali. There are about 74,000 Malian refugees in the Mbera camp, more than half of them children under 18.

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Mauritania Food Security Outlook - April through September 2013

Minimal food insecurity in most rural areas

KEY MESSAGES

  • Though poor households in most parts of the country have depleted their household cereal stocks, smooth trade flows (domestic, cross-border, and imports) should ensure good nationwide and region-wide food availability, at least through the end of June. Thus, there should not be any visible deterioration in household food security between April and June (Figures 1 and 2).

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Mauritania UNICEF Monthly Situation Report - April 2013

Many of the 45,000 children in Mauritania's most populous refugee camp have been there for over a year now. They need stable education facilities.

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ACT Alert: Assistance to Malian Refugees and Host Communities

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ACT Alliance

ACT Alliance Alert Reference Number: 15/2013. ACT member The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is planning to provide following assistance to Malian Refugees in the Mbera Camp and HCs: shelters, psychosocial support, nutritional support and agro-pastoral activities.

Mauritania
Assistance to Malian Refugees and Host Communities
Geneva, 7 May 2013

1. Brief description of the emergency and impact

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Jardins potagers dans la chaleur du désert

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IFRC

Il fait chaud et le soleil de midi brûle ardemment le sable. Kilomètre après kilomètre, pas un seul plan d’eau en vue. Seules quelques carcasses d’animaux pourrissent sur le côté latéral de la route. Pourtant, au milieu de cette rudesse du climat désertique, au sein d'un groupe de communautés, poussent des tomates, des oignons et de la pastèque.

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Growing gardens in the desert heat of Mauritania

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IFRC

It is hot and the midday sun scorches the sand. Mile after mile of travel and there is not a body of water to be seen. Animal carcasses rot on the side of the road. Yet amid this harsh desert climate, among a cluster of communities, tomatoes, onions and watermelon grow.

This is Mauritania, a west African country home to three million people, more than one third of whom are hungry. The Brakna region, in the south, has the highest malnutrition rates in the country, particularly among children under the age of five.

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Le président de la FICR en Mauritanie : voir plus loin que l’aide d’urgence en renforçant la résilience des communautés du Sahel

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IFRC

29 avril 2013, Nouakchott, Mauritanie – Tadateru Konoé, président de la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), a effectué sa première mission en Mauritanie où il a pu juger en personne du travail accompli par le Croissant-Rouge afin de réduire l’insécurité alimentaire dans la région. La Société nationale a mis en place une série d’initiatives qui ont un impact significatif sur les communautés vulnérables, y compris celles vivant dans les zones les plus reculées du pays.

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IFRC president in Mauritania: Looking beyond emergency response and developing resilience in Sahel communities

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IFRC

Nouakchott, Mauritania – Tadateru Konoé, the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), has undertaken his first mission to Mauritania where he witnessed first-hand the work the Mauritanian Red Crescent is doing to combat food insecurity in the region. The National Society has developed a range of solutions which are having a significant impact on vulnerable communities, including those living in remote areas of the country.

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Mauritanie Perspectives sur la sécurité alimentaire, Avril à Septembre 2013

Insécurité alimentaire minime dans la plupart des zones rurales

MESSAGES CLÉS

  • Bien que les stocks familiaux des ménages pauvres soient épuisées dans la plupart des zones, le bon fonctionnement des flux (internes, transfrontaliers et d’importations) assureront une bonne disponibilité au niveau national et régional au moins jusqu’en juin. On ne s’attend donc pas, entre avril et juin, à une notable dégradation des conditions alimentaires des ménages (Figures 1 et 2).

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Mauritania Price Bulletin April 2013

Local rice and sorghum are the most consumed food products by poor households in Mauritania followed by imported wheat which is a substitute that these households turn to the most. Local rice is grown in the river valley (in the southern regions of Trarza, Brakna, Gorgol and Guidimakha). Sorghum is produced in all areas of production (rainfed) and in flood-recession areas. However, a significant portion is imported from Mali and Senegal. Mauritania depends greatly on food imports (70% in a good agricultural year and 85% in a bad year) than on internal production.

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Malian refugees face abject conditions, long displacement

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IRIN

DAKAR, 17 April 2013 (IRIN) - Some 70,000 Malian refugees in Mauritania are facing enormous hardships and, as political and ethnic tensions persist back home, the prospect of a prolonged displacement.

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Echoués dans le désert

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MSF

Une aide urgente doit être fournie aux 70 000 Maliens

Au milieu du désert mauritanien, 70 000 réfugiés continuent de survivre dans des conditions précaires, sans perspective de retour au pays en raison des tensions ethniques affectant le nord du Mali. C’est ce que décrit un rapport intitulé « Échoués dans le désert » et publié aujourd’hui par Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), qui appelle les organisations humanitaires à se préparer à un effort continu à la hauteur des besoins.

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Stranded in the Desert

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MSF

The number of children admitted per week for severe malnutrition has more than doubled, despite the nutritional status of the new refugees being generally good on arrival.

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« Je ne serai pas réfugié pour la troisième fois »

CAMP DE MBERA, Mauritanie, 10 avril (HCR) – Ahmadou ressent parfois que le camp de réfugiés de Mbéra est devenu sa seconde maison, mais cela ne le réjouit pas. Il y avait passé cinq ans dans les années 1990 et désormais il y est de retour, récemment forcé à fuir sa maison à cause du conflit au Mali voisin. Il se demande combien de temps il va devoir rester à Mbéra, cette fois.

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A sinking feeling of deja vu for twice displaced Mali refugee

MBERA CAMP, Mauritania, April 10 (UNHCR) – Ahmadou sometimes feels as though Mbera Refugee Camp has become a second home, but he's not happy about it. He spent five years here in the 1990s and now he's back, forced from his home by the conflict in neighbouring Mali and wondering how long he will be in Mbera this time.

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Mauritania Food Security Outlook Update March 2013

KEY MESSAGES

• Due to large household and trader stocks and a good flow of domestic and cross-border trade, food availability is still be ensured and most poor households are experiencing only Minimal (IPC Phase 1) food insecurity.

• However, some 5,000 poor farming households in wadi (dry riverbed) and oasis areas are still feeling the effects of the poor rainy season on their agropastoral output and incomes. These households are currently facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food insecurity.

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GIEWS Country Brief: Mauritania 02-April-2013

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT

  • A record crop was gathered in 2012 and rangelands have recovered well

  • The food supply situation has improved significantly in 2012/13 compared to the previous year

  • Humanitarian assistance continues to be needed due to the lingering effects of last year food crisis

  • Civil strife in northern Mali is also having a serious impact on food security in parts

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Mauritanie : Enquête de suivi de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle des ménages - décembre 2012 / janvier 2013

Le système de suivi de la sécurité alimentaire (FSMS) permet de mesurer l'évolution de la situation socioéconomique afin d’identifier et de suivre les menaces potentielles sur la sécurité alimentaire des populations. Ce système permet aussi d’informer les décideurs sur le choix des actions à entreprendre dans la lutte contre l’insécurité alimentaire des populations en fournissant des informations saisonnières d’évolution de la situation dans le pays.

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Crisis in Mali: Thousands Flee to Mauritania

As violence in northern Mali continues, people afraid for their safety are taking refuge in the neighboring country of Mauritania. Many of them fled with nothing, leaving their belongings and livestock behind. Without access to milk and meat from livestock, an alarming number of refugees are suffering from malnutrition. So far, 74,000 displaced people have sought refuge in Mauritania, and more are arriving by the hundreds each day, in desperate need of help.

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