Rapports

Highlights • To date, 606,230 children under five years old have been screened for malnutrition, of which 41,677 (6.9%) were suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and 78,565 (13%) from moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). Twice as many…

Highlights ► Essential Package of Health Services launched to provide free health services in nine regions of Somalia ► Measles outbreak spreading in Somalia; cases quadrupled in March and April ► High level meeting held in Kampala to strengthen…

Situation Update A total of 4,418 cholera cases including 100 deaths (CFR 2.3%) had been reported in South Sudan as of 16 July 2014 as summarized in Tables 1, 2 and 3.

4 July 2014 - In an urgent effort to prevent cholera from spreading within the UNMISS Malakal Protection of Civilians (PoC) site and surrounding areas, the mission today began draining stagnant water in the camp. Ongoing, heavy…

KALMA CAMP (15 Jul.) - More than 70 people have died in less than a month the Kalma camp for the displaced in Nyala locality, South Darfur, owing to the bad humanitarian situation in the camp,…

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, 15 July 2014 (IRIN) - Militant group Al-Shabab has lived up to its promise to step up attacks in Somalia, mainly against government installations and personnel, during the holy month of Ramadan, which began on…

Highlights Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on humanitarian access signed. The MoU on cross-border humanitarian access has been signed by both South Sudan and Sudan. This will allow WFP to transport life-saving food through the border and reach…

SUMMARY Substantial humanitarian action is urgently required in Sudan in 2014.Overall, a total of 6.9 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance including life-saving interventions, protection from conflict and violence, strengthening household and community coping mechanisms…

MUKJAR (15 Jul.) - Mukjar locality in Central Darfur is devoid of any form of basic health care services. Within the past four months, 15 people died of an unknown liver disease. Speaking to Radio Dabanga from…

Highlights Shared internet connectivity services are being provided to the humanitarian community from nine ETC hubs and six partner sites across South Sudan. A tenth site will be operational in the coming week. Achievements A technician was deployed to…