Guinea

Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action:

La Guinée devrait s’employer à rendre justice, à établir la vérité et dédommager les victimes pour les crimes graves commis le 28 septembre 2009 dans un stade de Conakry, ont déclaré aujourd’hui Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International et l'Association des Victimes, Parents et Ami-e-s du 28 Septembre 2009, à la veille du huitième anniversaire du massacre. Ce jour-là, les forces de sécurité ont massacré plus de 150 manifestants pacifiques, et plus de 100 femmes ont été violées. Des centaines de blessés et des pillages généralisés ont également été documentés.

Guinea should move ahead to deliver justice, truth, and reparation for the grave crimes committed on September 28, 2009, at a Conakry stadium, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Association of Victims, Parents and Friends of the September 28 Massacre said today in advance of the massacre’s eighth anniversary. On that day, security forces massacred more than 150 peaceful protesters, and more than 100 women were raped. Hundreds of injuries and widespread looting were also documented.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Guinea under the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the initial report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Le Comité des droits de l’enfant a examiné, aujourd’hui, des rapports présentés par la Guinée sur les mesures qui ont été prises pour donner effet aux dispositions des deux Protocoles facultatifs se rapportant à la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant, qui portent respectivement sur l’implication d’enfants dans les conflits armés et sur la vente d’enfants, la prostitution des enfants et la pornographie mettant en scène des enfants.

A. Situation analysis
Description of the disaster

The disaster and the Red Cross Red Crescent response to date

• March 2014: Ebola outbreak in Gueckedou and a FACT team is deployed in the country March and April 2014: CHF 250,000 DREF allocated

A. Situation analysis

Description of the disaster

Guinea experiencing a measles outbreak, officially declared on February 8, 2017. A response plan was put in place by the National Health Security Agency (NHSA) and partners. It was decided to target children from 6 months to 10 years in 31 health districts. The reasons for the choice of these zones to respond are as follows:

Highlights

• A contact with the technical services of agriculture and unions of the bean producers of the prefecture of Mali was carried out and is still in process, in order to explore the potential local purchases existing in the region.

Operational Updates

Conakry – IOM, the UN Migration Agency this week (05/09) assisted 132 Guinean migrants to return home from Libya. The migrants, including 10 women, 1 infant, 2 children and 1 unaccompanied child, had requested assistance from IOM to return voluntarily to Guinea after living in Libya as irregular migrants in often daunting circumstances.

Highlights

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Voluntary repatriation: seven (07) Ivorian families of twenty-five (25) individuals were entered on the departure list. Arrangements are underway to facilitate the departure of these families in safety and dignity during the first fortnight of August.

30 From May to 31 July 2017, thirty (30) new births were regularized and recorded in the database.

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Candidates did the BEPC exam of which 07 girls and all have passed, a success rate of 100%.

Highlights

• WFP continues to provide market access to smallholder farmers by linking local purchases with school canteens supply. The country office is exploring opportunities for local purchases from bean producers in the prefecture of Mali.

Operational Updates

• Assistance to children in 58 CRENAMs followed its normal course. A total of 3,191 children and 2,781 pregnant and nursing women were reached in June.

"The bodies in all likelihood come from Sierra Leone since there have been no alerts about boats that have capsized"

CONAKRY, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The bodies of 19 people thought to have perished in a mudslide in Sierra Leone more than a fortnight ago have washed up on Guinea's shores, the government in Conakry said on Wednesday.

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Highlights

• WFP continues to provide market access to smallholder farmers by linking local purchases with school canteens supply. The country office is exploring opportunities for local purchases from bean producers in the prefecture of Mali.

• According to the March Cadre Harmonisé, the number food insecure people is forecast to increase to 285,585 people between June and August 2017.

Operational Updates

Since its establishement, the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel has been engaged to supporting governements and partners to implement ambitions SSR programs.

To consolidate peace and security, many countries in West Africa have initiated crucial reforms of their security sectors with the support of several partners. As a major regional actor, UNOWAS has been engaged since its establishment in 2002* in supporting national authorities and regional organizations to articulate and implement new reforms of the security sector.

Conakry – On 3 August, 132 Guinean migrants, including six unaccompanied children, returned voluntarily to Guinea from Libya with the support of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in collaboration with Guinean and Libyan authorities.

William Lacy Swing, IOM Director General, who was in Libya at the time, saw them off at Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport on Thursday. The returnees arrived in Conakry that same evening.

Pour consolider la paix et la sécurité, plusieurs pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest ont initié des réformes cruciales de leurs secteurs sécuritaires avec le soutien de divers partenaires. Acteur majeur dans la région, UNOWAS s’est engagé depuis 2002 à soutenir les autorités nationales et les organisations régionales à développer et à mettre en oeuvre des nouvelles réformes efficaces du secteur de la sécurité.

Between 2015 and 2016, the West African region and the Sahel experienced major elections, mostly in a peaceful, credible manner according to various reports of international observers. Countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria and Togo are now cited as examples of peaceful elections and democratic political changes.

A. Situation analysis

Description of the disaster

Guinea - It was 02:23 on Friday, 14 July when the special flight chartered by IOM Libya touched down on the tarmac at Conakry-Gbessia International Airport. On board were 136 Guinean migrants, including seven unaccompanied children, three women and one infant.

This submission relates to the review of Guinea under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. It focuses on the issue of the protection of students, teachers, schools, and universities in situations of armed conflict.