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29 Jan 2019 description

Les prix des aliments de base en baisse saisonnière continuent, mais pourraient demeurer proches de la moyenne

Messages clés

29 Jan 2019 description
report UN Children's Fund

West and Central Africa is home to only 11 per cent of the global population of children, but accounts for 30 per cent of global child deaths, 30 per cent of global child malnutrition, 42 per cent of global maternal deaths and 36 per cent of the world’s out-of-school children. Conflicts in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Lake Chad basin, northwest and southwest Cameroon and the triangle of northern Burkina Faso, central Mali and western Niger have led to mass displacement, both internally and across borders.

28 Jan 2019 description

In Numbers

5 mt of food assistance distributed

US$ 0.7 m cash-based transfers made

US$ 13.4 m six months (January 2018-June 2019) net funding requirements

150,000 people assisted in December 2018

Strategic Updates

28 Jan 2019 description

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 57 events in the region. This week’s edition covers key new and ongoing events, including:

  • Ebola virus disease in the Democratic
  • Republic of the Congo Measles in Madagascar
  • Humanitarian crisis in Nigeria
  • Humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.

24 Jan 2019 description

Estas contribuciones a WFP se realizan a través de la AECID, que canaliza donaciones del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, y las regiones de Asturias, Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Comunidad Valenciana, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid y Murcia, a través de un acuerdo en el que también participa la Federación Española de Municipios y Provincias (FEMP)

24 Jan 2019 description

NEW YORK (24 janvier 2019) - Andrew Gilmour, haut responsable des Nations unies aux droits de l'homme, s'est félicité de l'engagement pris par les pays du Sahel de protéger les droits des populations civiles face au terrorisme, et a mis en garde contre les dangers que représentent le nombre croissant de milices privées à caractère ethnique.

24 Jan 2019 description

NEW YORK ( 24 January 2019) – Senior UN human rights official, Andrew Gilmour, has welcomed the commitment of countries of the Sahel to protect the rights of civilians as they confront terrorism, and warned of the dangers posed by the growing number of ethnic-based private militias.

At the end of a nine-day visit to the region, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights said he was encouraged by the willingness of Sahel countries to adhere to international human rights and humanitarian law standards in their ongoing fight against terrorism.

23 Jan 2019 description

L’OIM travaille avec les autorités nationales, locales et des partenaires locaux, afin de mieux comprendre et connaître les mouvements migratoires à travers l’Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre. Le suivi des flux de population (FMP) est une activité qui permet de quantifier et de qualifier les flux, les profils des migrants, les tendances et les routes migratoires sur un point d’entrée, de sortie ou de transit donné.

23 Jan 2019 description

MADRID – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes Spain’s 4.1 million euros in contributions made over the past year to support food assistance to vulnerable populations and fund logistics for the delivery of humanitarian assistance in several areas. While the Sahel, Palestine and the Sahrawi refugees in Algeria remain the focus of Spanish support, Spain also contributed to WFP operations in Northeast Nigeria for the first time.

23 Jan 2019 description

Robert Muggah
Co-founder, Igarape Institute and SecDev Group

José Luengo Cabrera
West Africa researcher, International Crisis Group

This article is part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

23 Jan 2019 description

OM works with national and local authorities to gain a better understanding of population movements throughout West and Central Africa. Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) allow IOM to quantify and qualify migration flows, trends, and routes, at entry, exit, and transit points (such as border crossing posts, bus stations, rest areas, police checkpoints and reception centres).

23 Jan 2019 description

FAITS SAILLANTS

  • Plus d’un million de personnes ont bénéficié d’une assistance alimentaire en 2018

  • 807 écoles fermées dont 62 pour cent dans la région de Mopti

  • 242 000 enfants privés d'éducation en raison de la fermeture des écoles

  • Plus de 124 000 personnes malnutries aiguës sévères prises en charge en 2018

Près de 120 000 personnes déplacées internes

22 Jan 2019 description

Mauritania hosts over 2,500 urban refugees and asylum- seekers and almost 56,000 Malian refugees in and around Mbera camp. Despite the conclusion of a peace agreement in 2015, large-scale returns of Malian refugees are not expected due to persistent violence in northern Mali. In December alone, 69 new arrivals were registered in Mbera camp. In the context of this protracted situation, UNHCR is engaging with several actors to strenghten the humanitarian-development nexus, in order to reduce refugees’ needs, risks and vulnerabilities.

21 Jan 2019 description

Overview

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on selected acute public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 58 events in the region. This week’s edition covers key new and ongoing events, including: