The fact that more than 1.5 million people have registered or have appointments with UNHCR means the actual number is much higher. The increasingly widening gap between the needs and resources available is a growing challenge.

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Les réfugiés congolais fuyant l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo seront accueillis dans nouveau camp de réfugiés à Kavumu, en province de Cankuzo. Ce « village » a été inauguré ce mercredi 15 mai par le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés (HCR) est d'une capacité de 13 000 réfugiés. Le nouveau camp devrait en accueillir 5 000 d'ici la fin 2013.

SITTWE, Myanmar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a sweltering Sunday afternoon, Roma Hattu was rolling around on the bare concrete floor of the abandoned single-storey building her family shares with three others behind Thetkepyin camp, breathing heavily and moaning.

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The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) demands that Europe should provide more humanitarian aid for more than 440,000 civil war refugees in Mali. On Tuesday, the human rights organization recalled that, according to UN figures, only 28 percent of the required 315 million Euros have been provided. "France spent more than 200 million Euros on the military operation in northern Mali alone, so surely it should be possible for the international community to provide help for the needy," said the STP's Africa-expert, Ulrich Delius, in Göttingen on Tuesday.

Faits saillants
- Des enfants blessés par l’explosion d’une munition non explosée à Kitchanga.
- 45 000 personnes assistées en vivres à Kibumba (Nyiragongo) et Rugari (Rutshuru)
- Augmentation des cas de paludisme à Kashuga (Masisi) : plus de 600 cas enregistrés du 1er avril au 5 mai.
- 700 enfants sortis des forces et groupes armés courent le risque de ré-enrôlement dans le Territoire de Walikale.

Monsoon 2012 updates :

• Rehabilitation work completed in 17 girls schools in Balochistan with ERF support .

• In Sindh, cluster members completed mainstreaming of 2,8972 (43% girls) children in government primary schools at Jacobabad, Kashmore and Shikarpur .

Education Cluster Response for displacement in KP/FATA :

• Allocation of CERF funds for Education cluster is 150,000 USD .
  These funds will be used to support educational needs of IDP children displaced from Tirah Valley, Khyber agency

Many Congolese, threatened by armed groups or inter-ethnic conflicts, have crossed into Burundi hoping to find refuge and security. The new camp will have capacity for 13,000 people.

More than 2,000 people have been displaced in Marigat district after Lake Baringo flooded into nearby homesteads as heavy rains continue to wreak havoc in many parts of the county.

Learning has been paralised in 7 primary schools including Ng’ambo, Sintaan, Salabani, Loropil, Ilng’arua, Leswo and Sokotei.

Also affected are Ng’ambo and Salabani secondary schools whose classes are now full of water.

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is currently located approximately 1,220 km (660 nautical miles) south of Kolkata, India, and has moved northwestward over the last six hours. The cyclone is expected to slow down over the next 24 hours before re-curving northeastward, and will slowly track northwards for the next 36 hours as the steering ridge remains weak and continues to re-orient itself. It is anticipated to gradually weaken before making landfall near Chittagong, Bangladesh late in the evening of 16 May or early hours of 17 May. Once it hits land, the cyclone will rapidly dissipate.