Nashon Tado (07.06.2013)

Norwegian Ambassador to Djibouti and Ethiopia, H.E Odd Inge Kvalheim visited NRC in Djibouti’s Ali Addeh Refugee Camp this week.

The Ali Addeh Refugee Camp is located 170km from Djibouti capital and is currently hosting an estimate of 18,000 refugees mainly from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. The refugee camp is divided into 8 sections, each with an average of 2,000 refugees, with refugees from Somalia being the majority. So far, 1,100 refugees have been registered in 2013, with an average of 250 refugees arriving each month.

Une saison qui évite une détérioration de la sécurité alimentaire

MESSAGES CLÉS

• Les pluies de la saison de Diraac/Soughoum ont été favorables pour la plupart des zones rurales et contribuent à maintenir la situation de sécurité alimentaire des populations malgré la saison de soudure qui débute.

In 1999, the Government of Djibouti began working with the World Bank to undertake a review of the country’s education system with the objective of addressing its inefficiencies and achieving universal primary enrollment by 2010. The second project phase was funded through the International Development Agency in 2005, and by 2011, had helped expand school access to more than 7,000 children, by adding and equipping 102 classrooms, and helped to improve the quality of the curriculum with in-service training to 95 percent of teachers and all school directors.

Des améliorations limitées par le début de la période de soudure

MESSAGES CLÉS

• Compte tenu de l'impact des faibles précipitations, et du début de la période de soudure, on s’attend généralement à ce que la sécurité alimentaire se détériore au cours des six prochains mois, en particulier dans les zones de mode de vie du Sud-est frontalier et les zones rurales de la région d’Obock.

Washington, le 23 avril 2013 - Djibouti et la Banque mondiale ont signé un accord de crédit de 7 millions de dollars destiné au projet d’amélioration de la performance dans le secteur de la santé, dont l’objectif est d’accroître le rayon de couverture et la qualité des soins de santé dans le pays, avec une cible de 300 000 bénéficiaires, dont majoritairement des femmes.

L’accord a été signé entre Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, ministre des Finances et de l’Économie de Djibouti, et Inger Andersen, vice-présidente de la Banque mondiale pour la Région Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord.

Sorghum, wheat flour and Belem rice are the most important food commodities. Sorghum flour and Belem rice are most commonly consumed commodities in urban areas. Wheat flour mixed with sorghum flour is also purchased for the production of local pancakes, an important staple food for poor and middle-income households. Over 65 percent of the total population for Djibouti lives in and around Djibouti City, the capital, making this market the most important for understanding food security conditions. Dikhil is the second largest city and it supplies the rural communities in and around the city.

Djibouti:

New Arrivals: In February 2013, an estimated 7,648 migrants arrived on Yemen’s shores via Djibouti, a 30% increase from January. The migrants were 24% less than those who landed on the coast of Yemen via Djibouti in February 2012. Migrants journey from Loya Ade, to Tadjoura and onward to Obock. Obock remains the main departure point from Djibouti to Yemen.

Boats: A total of 100 vessels left via the Red Sea for Yemen carrying an average of 76 passengers per trip in the month of February.

KEY MESSAGES

• While the Karan/Karma season (July‐October) in inland areas ended well, pasture and water access in northwestern pastoral areas is declining earlier than usual due, in part, to the overuse of these resources. The food security situation, though deteriorating, is still classified as stressed (IPC Phase 2).

Credit Also Fights TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2013 – A new project designed to improve the coverage and quality of healthcare in Djibouti will reach 300,000 people, mostly women. The US$7.0 million credit approved by the World Bank today will assist Djibouti in its efforts to deliver better maternal and child healthcare services and improved communicable disease control programs (HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria).