Burundi

Overview

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 67 events in the region. This week’s main articles cover key ongoing events, including:

• Rwanda hosts 149,546 refugees as of 31 October 2019. 51% of the refugees are from Burundi while 49% are from the DRC. Although they are gradually being integrated to the national social and economic systems, camp-based refugees remain heavily dependent on humanitarian assistance.

• Rwanda experienced heavy rainfall with Rusizi, Nyamasheke, Musanze and Ngororero districts being the most affected. The rainfall has displaced several families with most of them being hosted in schools.

Key Messages

• More than 90,000 new refugees have arrived in Uganda as of 2019 (UNHCR). Despite this, there has been a decline refugee crisis funding. This has significantly affected child protection sector, where World Vision developed an appeal. In November, 1,387 people of concern were received from South Sudan (of whom 511 are children) and 3,877 Congolese refugees from DRC.

Key messages

• Refugees in the country: According to the UN Refugee Agency(UNHCR), there are an estimated 279,484 people of concern in Tanzania as of 30 November 2019. 205,830 are Burundians, 73,169 are Congolese from the DRC and 485 are from other nationalities.

Heavy rainfall triggers flooding in Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania while parts of Southern Africa remain dry

Africa Weather Hazards

1. Parts of Lake Victoria, Rwanda, Burundi and the southern Kenya will remain under flash flood risk into next week.

2. Desert Locust breeding is expected to extend from Afar region of Ethiopia northward into Djibouti and Eritrea, and northern parts of Kenya.

Navigating the shift to digital humanitarian assistance

The ubiquity and scale of mobile networks has made them attractive delivery channels for many types of humanitarian assistance. As mobile technology spreads, connectivity and devices are increasingly accessible to vulnerable populations and serve as a valuable tool for delivering life enhancing services and information. Today, millions of dollars of cash assistance are being delivered via mobile money, supplanting traditional methods of transporting and delivering cash.

FAITS SAILLANTS

• Le bilan le plus récent des dégâts de Uwinterekwa fait état de 238 ménages soit 1190 individus affectés, au moins 14 décès, 33 blessés, 57 maisons totalement détruites, 49 maisons partiellement détruites et 132 maisons inondées qui risquent de s’écrouler.

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 67 events in the region. This week’s main articles cover key ongoing events, including:

• Malaria in Burundi
  
• Ebola virus disease in Democratic Republic of the Congo
  
• Humanitarian crisis in Nigeria.

For each of these events, a brief description, followed by public health measures implemented and an interpretation of the situation is provided.

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Résumé des besoins humanitaires

POPULATION TOTALE
99,9M

PERSONNES DANS LE BESOIN
15,6M

Contexte et impact de la crise

A. Situation analysis

Description of the disaster

Heavy rainfall expected to result in above-average harvests despite localized crop damage

KEY MESSAGES

Continued heavy rainfall impacts crops and livelihoods, though harvest prospects remain above average

KEY MESSAGES

Epidémies | En décembre, trois nouveaux cas de choléra ont été enregistrés dans la province de Bujumbura Mairie, portant le nombre total de cas à 1 094, dont 8 décès, entre le 1er juin et le 13 décembre. Les provinces du nord-ouest du pays restent les plus touchées par cette épidémie. En outre, le Ministère de la Santé a rapporté 65 cas de rougeole dans le Centre de transit de Cishemere, situé dans la province Cibitoke, au 17 décembre 2019. Ces cas représentent les premiers cas signalés en 2019.

Epidemics | In December, three new cases of cholera were registered in the province of Bujumbura Mairie bringing the total number of cases to 1,094 , including 8 deaths, between 1 June and 13 December. The northwest provinces of the country remain the most affected by this epidemic. In addition, the Ministry of Health has also reported 65 measles cases in the Cishemere Transit Centre, located in Cibitoke province, as of 17 December 2019. These are the first reported cases in 2019. The Ministry of Health continue to monitor the evolution of the outbreak and report on cases.

Highlights

• Uganda remains Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) free as of November 2019, although the risk of EVD importation remains very high given the porous border shared with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

• Over 1.2 million of the refugee and asylum seeker population are children and women that require humanitarian assistance.