Rapports

Les pays d’Afrique s’emploient à améliorer leur préparation en cas de flambée d’Ebola. Les équipes de l’OMS ont procédé à des exercices de simulation dans les hôpitaux et dispensé une formation technique concernant l’intervention d’urgence et…

2 January 2015 – The top United Nations official in West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, today condemned the recent attempt to seize power through unconstitutional means in The Gambia. “As an Organization whose primary objective is the…

31 December 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated his “principled condemnation” of all attempts to seize power through unconstitutional means following reports of an attempted coup in The Gambia. Gunfire was heard near the…

PRIORITY NEEDS Food and Nutrition Security All efforts at recovery since the massive crop failure in 2011 have, from one year to the other, been aborted by climate-related shocks. In 2014, the late onset of rains led to…

Summary: In February 2014, there was an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, which spread to Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone, and most recently Mali, causing untold hardship and hundreds of deaths…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Preliminary forecast for the 2014 harvest points to a large decline in cereal production Access to food continues to be constrained by high food prices Humanitarian assistance continues to be needed 2014 cereal production forecast to decline…

BANJUL (7 November 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteurs Christof Heyns and Juan Méndez have been prevented from completing a torture and killing investigation during the first visit ever to The Gambia by experts of…

Gambia has again demonstrated its blatant disregard for human rights by stopping a UN team from investigating allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings in the country, Amnesty International said today. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary…

GENEVA (30 October 2014) – Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs will carry out the first official visit ever to the Gambia by experts of the Human Rights Council Special Procedures*. The UN Special Rapporteurs on extrajudicial, summary…

Gambia must heed UN warning to improve its human rights record The Gambian authorities must heed a warning from the international community about the deteriorating human rights situation in the country, Amnesty International said today. This morning, 62…