Chad

(New York, 29 August 2017): The United Nations humanitarian chief released US$45 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to four neglected emergencies, where more than 21 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Chad and Sudan. The funds will sustain and scale up critical aid operations by humanitarian partners in these countries, where life-saving needs are alarmingly high but funding is critically low.

INTRODUCTION

This report is a comprehensive presentation of all data on migration gathered through IOM’s DTM programme for May -June.

Myanmar

The conflict in Rakhine state has escalated following a coordinated attack on police and military posts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army on 25 August.

Over 5,200 Rohingya have fled violence to Bangladesh but only the most vulnerable where allowed to cross the border while an unknown number have been turned away. The government has evacuated 4,000 non-Muslim ethnic Rakhine villagers from the area due to insecurity. Non-essential UN staff are also being evacuated.

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 49 events in the region.

This week, three new events have been reported:

• Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Mauritania and cholera in Burundi and Chad. This week’s edition also covers key ongoing events, including:

• Cholera in Kenya

• Hepatitis E in Niger

• Floods/mudslide in Sierra Leone

Situation

• Chad is a low-income, land-locked country that suffers from chronic food insecurity due to the effects of regional conflict, frequent drought, lack of income-generating opportunities and limited access to social services. An estimated 4.7 million people in Chad require humanitarian assistance, including approximately 3.5 million food-insecure individuals.

The summit will include the leaders of Chad and Niger from where migrants cross into Libya en route to Europe.

PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Getting Europe's migrant crisis under control will be the main focus of a summit of Europe's 'big four' continental powers hosted on Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has invited three African nations to the talks in Paris.

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The Central African Republic (CAR) was making progress on the road to recovery: significant numbers of displaced people had begun to return home, the government was focused on institution-building and shoring up peace and reconciliation. However, many of these positive developments were challenged by a progressive deterioration of the security situation in the last few months. Nearly one in two people in CAR continued to need humanitarian aid or protection to survive, while one in every five Central Africans remains either internally displaced or has fled to a neighbouring country.

179.5 M required for 2017

44.0 M contributions received, representing 25% of requirements

135.5 M funding gap for the Nigeria Situation

Le lancement officiel du contrat social sur l’eau s’est déroulé du 21 au 23 aout 2017 à Iriba dans les trois camps (AMNABACK, TOULOUM et IRIDIMI) de la Sous-Délégation. Cette cérémonie est organisée conjointement par le HCR, IRC, HELP TCHAD et la CNARR.

Faits saillants

• La saison des pluies et la montée des eaux du Lac Tchad coïncident avec la fin de l’opération Rawan Kada de la Force Multinationale Mixte au Niger et au Nigéria.

• En juillet, des mouvements de population estimés à 5 000 personnes ont été rapportés en provenance des zones de Kaiga Kindjiria et Tchoukoutalia.

Dans le cadre de la célébration de la Journée mondiale de l’aide humanitaire au Tchad, le Cluster santé a participé activement à la dite campagne. Pour le Tchad, en lien avec le thème proposé au niveau Global NotATarget, le Thème retenu a été la violence basée sur le genre. Suivons l’intervention de M. Dassou Guidaoussou, Assistant Manager de l’IRC pour les violences basées sur le genre, au nom du Cluster santé :

HIGHLIGHTS

• 6338 Nigeriens fleeing the heightened insecurity situation in Niger and seeking protection in Chad.

• A Forum led by the Government to discuss factors hindering the socioeconomic inclusion of refugees in Chad and to agree on an action-plan for their effective inclusion in Chadian communities.

• 2700 Birth Certificates for Chadian returnees in N’Djamena established after the verification exercise.

Funding:

USD 162.8 million needed

Highlights

• The ongoing refugee returns from Cameroon, Chad and Niger has put increased pressure on the already precarious displacement situation on the border towns of Banki,
  Gamboru, Ngala, Damasak and Pulka. The influx of returnees is severely stressing limited existing services and aggravating the food and nutrition crisis.

Contents
477 Cholera vaccines: WHO position paper – August 2017
498 Monthly report on dracunculiasis cases, January-June 2017

Sommaire
477 Vaccins anticholériques: Note de synthèse de l’OMS – août 2017
498 Rapport mensuel des cas de dracunculose, janvier-juin 2017

OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW

8.5 MILLION PEOPLE IN NEED OF LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE IN 2017

6.9 MILLION PEOPLE TARGETED FOR LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE IN 2017