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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Thursday 12 February 2015
Nigeria: African Forces Responding to the Growing Threat from Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch
Regional governments are finalizing the operational mandate for the mission against Boko Haram. They are expected to seek a United Nations Security Council mandate, which could also include logistical support from other countries. - Monday 9 February 2015
Why East African Countries Could Lose Out on Low Oil Prices
Over the past few months, global oil prices have more than halved, to stand at just below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2009. - Saturday 7 February 2015
South Sudan: FAO Warns of Deteriorating Situation as Food Crisis Escalates
This is more than double the number of people who were experiencing this level of food insecurity in December 2013, when the current conflict broke out, bringing the country once again to the brink of a major hunger crisis. - Thursday 5 February 2015
Sierra Leone: Ban Ki- Moon Appoints Bintou Keita of Guinea Ebola Crisis Manager
Ms. Keita succeeds Amadu Kamara of the United States, who will return to the United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia. - Tuesday 3 February 2015
Zimbabwe: 20,000 Displaced Flood Victims Lack Adequate Food, Shelter
The flood victims oppose the government’s plans. They told Human Rights Watch that the plots are too small to support their families with basic kitchen gardens, that they had been promised five hectares, and that they are being given no choice but to grow sugar cane, which they have no experience cultivating. - Tuesday 27 January 2015
Uganda: 150,000 Refugees Affected by Reduced Rations by WFP
If WFP fails to receive substantial contributions in the coming months, the cuts could last for the next six months or longer and possibly even affect the new South Sudanese refugees. - Friday 23 January 2015
Sudan: MSF Hospital Bombed in South Kordofan
Approximately 150 patients and staff were in the hospital during midday operations when a SAF fighter jet dropped a cluster of 13 bombs of which two landed inside the hospital compound and the others just outside the hospital fence. - Friday 23 January 2015
Malawi: WFP Scales up Flood Assistance in Face Of Funding Challenges
Some 77 metric tons of biscuits, enough to feed 77,000 people, were airlifted into Malawi from the UN Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai earlier this week. - Wednesday 21 January 2015
FAO: Funds are Running out in Battle against Madagascar’s Locusts
As much as 40 percent of crops in southern Madagascar are at risk from the locust crises in combination with the droughts and cyclones to which the island nation is prone, according to FAO. - Tuesday 20 January 2015
Nigeria: Boko Haram May Have Displaced Over a Million, IOM
To calculate the nearly one million displaced, IOM used its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), an information management tool used worldwide to gather information on the status and location of IDPs. - Friday 16 January 2015
Malawi: WFP Mobilizing in Country's Flood Disaster
A government-led agriculture and food security humanitarian cluster has been activated to help coordinate the response. Initial estimates suggest that as many as 20,000 households (or 110,000 people) have been displaced. - Friday 16 January 2015
Horn of Africa: Irregular Migration by Sea to Arabian Peninsula Increases
The year began with a low of 811 arrivals in January, but peaked in September with 12,768 arrivals – the highest recorded monthly arrival figure since 2006. It then finished in December with 8,912 arrivals, or nearly 300 per day. - Wednesday 14 January 2014
Ghana: Canada Strengthens Health Systems for Children and Newsborns
The Scaling Up Paediatric Nursing Care in Ghana initiative will be implemented by SickKids, together with the Ghanaian Ministry of Health and the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives, which was established by the Government of Ghana in response to the outcome of the pilot project, and to advance nursing and midwifery professionalism, practice and leadership in Ghana. - Tuesday 13 January 2014
Niger: Massive Food-Aid Project for People Fleeing Conflict in Nigeria
A quarter of this total, some 10,800 people, also received essential household items like blankets, tarpaulins, mosquito nets, mats, clothes and kitchen utensils. - Monday 12 January 2015
DRC: 152 Former Child Soldiers Reunited With Families
In 2014, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the ICRC reunited over 800 children with their families including almost 300 formerly associated with the armed forces and other armed groups.