Niger: Floods - Jul 2012

Early results of Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems initiative presented at climate change conference

Vulnerable communities in Africa and the Pacific and Caribbean are now benefiting from improved early warning systems against extreme weather as part of an international drive to boost resilience and climate change adaptation. But further investments are needed to reduce the risks from hazards like tropical cyclones, floods and drought.

Geneva, 16 November 2017 - Vulnerable communities in Africa, the Pacific and Caribbean are now benefiting from improved early warning systems against extreme weather as part of an international drive to boost resilience and climate change adaptation.

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) over 80 percent of the world’s 48 Least Developed Countries and many small island developing States have only a basic early warning system. Weather observation networks are inadequate in many African countries.

• De 2011 à 2016, plus de 1,6 milliard de dollars ont été mobilisés sur un total de 2 milliards de dollars requis à travers des projets des plans de réponse humanitaire pour le Niger.

• Environ 485 millions de dollars ont été alloués à des projets humanitaires non inclus dans les plans de 2011 à 2016.

• Pour les six années considérées, la moyenne des taux de financement tourne autour de 60 pour cent.

• En 2016, seuls 54 pour cent des fonds recherchés ont été mobilisés.

As communities in Niger continue to recover from flooding that took place last summer, we hear from response team volunteer David Hatcher about the challenges of providing aid in the West African country.

In August 2012, Niger received more than half a year’s rainfall in just one night and experienced the worst flooding in living memory. The River Niger burst its banks and the rising waters destroyed 14,000 homes, along with 7,000 crop fields, leaving people without shelter or food supplies.

FAITS SAILLANTS

• Afflux continu à Diffa de réfugiés, déplacés/ retournés en provenance du Nigéria.

• De nombreuses femmes de la région de Zinder empruntent les routes migratoires pour se rendre en Algérie

KEY MESSAGES

• In West Africa, market supplies improved throughout the region in October due to average ongoing harvests. Carryover stocks were average to above-average in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Benin but below-average in many areas of the Niger and Nigeria due to the effects flood and conflict that disrupted the marketing system in 2012 and early 2013. Stable rice imports from international markets contributed to food availability in Senegal and Mauritania (Pages 3-5).

Period covered by this final report: December 2011 to May 2013.

Appeal target (current): CHF 3,375,048

Appeal coverage: 52%;

Appeal history:

· The Emergency Appeal was initially launched on 30 January 2012 for CHF 3,756,836 for nine months to assist 350,000 beneficiaries in six regions: Diffa, Tahoua, Dosso,Tillabéry, Maradi and Zinder

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Background

Summary:

1.Resume

L’environnement social, économique et politique du Niger est resté stable au cours des six premiers mois de l’année 2013. Par contre, les conditions sécuritaires se sont graduellement dégradées avec deux attentats terroristes perpétrés durant le mois de mai contre une garnison militaire et des intérêts français dans le nord du pays (Agadez et Arlit), ainsi que l’évasion, en juin 2013, d’une vingtaine de détenus de la prison civile de Niamey, dont un présumé terroriste très dangereux.

1. Summary

NEEDS REMAIN HIGH

Food security and nutrition in the Sahel have improved somewhat since the acute crisis in 2012, following better rains and harvests. However, the effects of the recent crisis are not so quickly erased.

Au menu:

· L'Union européenne augmente son aide pour les déplacés de Tissi au Tchad (RFI, 18/06/13)

· UNICEF intensifies emergency response for refugees in eastern Chad (UNICEF, 19/06/13)

· Chad: UNHCR Completes Relocation of Thousands of Darfur Refugees to Chad Camp (All Africa, 14/06/13)

· Preparing for floods in West Africa (IRIN, 14/06/13)

· World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank (Guardian, 19/06/13)

· Life without education doesn’t make sense (CORD, 18/06/13)

DAKAR/NIAMEY, 13 June 2013 (IRIN) - West African and Sahel countries are setting up measures to minimize flood damage as the annual rainy season approaches. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) in a seasonal weather outlook says near-average or above-average rainfall is likely over the western Sahel, which stretches across Mauritania, Senegal and western and central Niger.

L'Essentiel

• Le nord du Mali toujours en proie à la crise alimentaire

• Afflux de réfugiés au Tchad suite aux troubles politiques en République centrafricaine et des affrontements au Soudan

• Forte hausse des prix des céréales au Niger et au Nigéria suite aux inondations de 2012 et aux troubles sociaux au nord du Nigeria

Snapshot 27 May – 03 June

In Syria, the government military continued its offensive on opposition-controlled Qusayr, a strategic city in Homs province connecting the capital to the Mediterranean coast. Humanitarian agencies expressed alarm over the fate of thousands of civilians still trapped in the city. The UN estimates that over 6.8 million people are in need of humanitarian aid in Syria. While an estimated 5 million people are internally displaced, the number of Syrians registered or awaiting registration in host countries has surpassed 1.6 million.

FAITS SAILLANTS

• La sécurité alimentaire reste précaire dans les zones vulnérables

• Le district sanitaire de Tillabéry enregistre à lui seul 256 des 281 cas de choléra

• Les cantines scolaires renforcent l’assiduité et réduisent la disparité entre garçons et filles

21-05-2013 Communiqué de presse

Genève / Niamey (CICR) – Plusieurs centaines de familles fuyant la violence qui sévit au nord du Nigéria ont trouvé refuge dans la région de Diffa, dans le sud-est du Niger, et bénéficient d'une assistance d'urgence en vivres et en biens de première nécessité organisée par le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) et la Croix-Rouge nigérienne.

Geneva/Niamey (ICRC) – Several hundred families fleeing violence in northern Nigeria and taking refuge in the Diffa area of south-eastern Niger are being provided with emergency supplies and food aid by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross Society of Niger.

Displaced by disasters: 32.4 million people uprooted in both rich and poor countries

**GENEVA, 13 MAY 2013 – A new report released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reveals that 32.4 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes. While Asia and west and central Africa bore the brunt, 1.3 million were displaced in rich countries, with the USA particularly affected.

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