Latest Documents
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September 20, 2011Kenya Humanitarian Update - 20 September 2011
Kenya Humanitarian Update - 20 September 2011
HIGHLIGHTS
* A recount of applicants for refugee status in Dadaab has found large numbers attempting double registration. The apparent large backlog in applications for registration has been adjusted from 40,000 to 1,909. The average daily arrival rate for the past week was about 1,100 people per day.
* Deteriorating security situation along Somali border and around Dadaab; a vehicle belonging to an international NGO has been hijacked in Hagadera camp.
* Maize prices are on a downward trend but remain significantly above the five-year average.
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September 20, 2011Somalia Snapshot 20 September
Somalia Snapshot 20 September
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September 20, 2011OCHA Report No. 14, covering the period from 15 to 20 September
OCHA Somalia Famine & Drought Situation Report No. 14, dated 20 September (covering the period from 15 to 20 September)
HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
.Partners are scaling up response activities in order to reach the worst-affected population to avert further unnecessary deaths. Food assistance partners have reached 1.39 million people in crisis so far in the first two weeks of September, compared to 1.3 million throughout the month of August.
.An estimated 585,000 urban dwellers in Somalia are projected to be in crisis by December if interventions are not scaled up, a quarter more than the first half of the year.
.According to UNICEF, children constitute 80 per cent of the worst-affected population in the current famine.
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September 16, 2011Spread of famine (as of September 2011)
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September 02, 2011Ethiopia- Somali Refugee Emergency Update 02 September 2011
Highlights
• Over 13,600 refugees relocated to Hilaweyn camp
• Slight decrease in overall mortality rate, but under 5 mortality rate
remains a concern
• Further nutritional interventions agreed to mitigate severe acute
malnutrition among new arrivals
• Measles & polio vaccination campaign completed in all camps
• Significant improvement in water supply in all camps
• UNHCR essential relief supply arrived in Gode -
August 25, 2011Conference Pledge Breakdown
Please find below the tentative breakdown of pledges made during the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa
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August 25, 2011Presentation of the Deputy Chairperson
Presentation of the Deputy Chairperson during the African Union Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa
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August 25, 2011Conference for the Horn of Africa. Joint AU/FAO/IFAD/WFP Paper
Conference for the Horn of Africa. Joint AU/FAO/IFAD/WFP Paper
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August 09, 2011Emergency Update, Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
UNHCR Emergency Update
Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
09 August 2011Highlights
• Four days since the start of relocation from the Transit Centre, some 3,000 refugees have been moved to Hilaweyn refugee camp.
• UNHCR and health partners carrying out screening and measles vaccination for children aged 6 months to 15 years before their transfer to Hilaweyn
• Preparations underway for the expansion of the measles vaccination campaign to Kobe, the worst affected of all four camps in Dollo Ado.
• Health partners have started a large community mobilization campaign to raise awareness of the symptoms of measles with a focus on the “3 Rs" - red eyes, a rash and runny nose.
• WFP has started distribution of food in Hilaweyn.
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August 05, 2011Emergency Update, Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
UNHCR
Emergency Update
Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
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August 03, 2011Somali Displacement Crisis at a glanceEast & Horn of Africa Update - Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance
3 August 2011Highlights
• UNHCR ups its July appeal to include $8.6 million to boost aid to displaced people inside Somalia.
• Plans to deliver aid to up to 400,000 people inside Somalia by the end of August.
• Ongoing Kenya operation moves more than 10,500 recent Somali arrivals to Dadaab’s Ifo camp.
• Arrivals continue to average 1,300 daily at Kenya’s Dadaab camps; slow to 270 daily in Ethiopia’s Dollo
Ado camps.
• July arrivals in Dadaab camps top 40,400, the highest monthly rate in the camp’s 20-year history.
• One in three children arriving in Ethiopia is acutely malnourished.
• Mortality rate increases in July, with up to 1.8 deaths per 10,000 at Dadaab’s Ifo camp.
• Malnutrition rates remain a concern iamong refugee new arrivals in Ethiopia and Kenya.
• Africa Union to host pledging conference on the crisis in the Horn of Africa. -
August 02, 2011Emergency requirements and funding 2011
Click below to access the continually updated breakdown of UNHCR's financial requirements in response to the Somali displacement crisis into Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya, as well as for assistance in Somalia.
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July 29, 2011Horn of Africa Drought map
OCHA - Horn of Africa Drought Map
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July 29, 2011Drought – Humanitarian SnapshotFood insecurity remains at emergency levels across parts of the Horn of Africa, famine has been declared in two regions of Southern Somalia. Humanitarian organizations are struggling to cope with the influx of Somali refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya. Malnutrition and mortality rates are alarmingly high in many parts of the region.
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July 28, 2011By The Numbers
Figures for populations in desperate need of life-saving assistance now stand at 12.4 million people. The launch of the Humanitarian Requirements Document for the Horn of Africa drought will take place Friday 29 July in Geneva. Providing donors with an immediate overview of most critical needs across the Horn, the document covers Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
The Humanitarian Requirements Document draws on the latest updates of each country’s humanitarian plan to outline both the needs and response plans arising from the drought, both country-specific and with a regional overview. It will reflect the major emergency revisions of the Somalia and Kenya CAPs currently being prepared by the Humanitarian Country Teams.Day By Day:
- 1,300 new refugees are arriving daily in Kenya from Somalia, to transit points and to the Dabaab camps
- Some 1,000 IDPs arrive to Mogadishu daily
- Several hundred Somalis are arriving in Ethiopia daily (a reduction from nearly 2,000 a day one month ago)
- Estimates indicate up to 2,500 people in southern Somalia will be dying of starvation each day by the end of August (USAID, 27 July)
Between July 15 and July 22 the total number of people in need of assistance rose by 858,145. An increase of another 817,379 people since July 22 means over 1.6 million more people are in need of assistance than less than a fortnight ago.
In addition to the documented, daily IDP flows, refugee numbers are rising fast as those in camps are successfully registered.Without the needed additional voluntary contributions, it is anticipated that the impact of the famine may spread throughout southern Somalia and over the borders into neighbouring countries within the coming one to two months.
Of the affected countries, Ethiopia has the highest absolute number of affected population as well as affected refugees, followed closely by Somalia (left hand chart)
However, when the population in need of assistance is looked at as a percentage of the total country population, Djibouti is 2nd-worst affected (right hand chart)