Online Accreditation for the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa Available
Online Accreditation for the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa Available
Online Accreditation for the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa Available
The Directorate of Information and Communication hereby invites journalist to attend the Pledging Conference for the Horn of Africa, schedule on the 25th August 2011, at the UNECA Conference Centre and hereby inform journalists that an online accreditation facility for the coverage of the Pledging Conference on the Humanitarian Situation in the Horn of Africa has been made available at the following link: http://au.int/pages/savinglives/accreditation.
Journalists who are interested in covering the Summit are kindly requested to urgently submit their online application for accreditation latest on 22 August 2011. Necessary arrangements are being made to enable them work in a suitable working environment. However, only journalists who have been accredited will be allowed to cover the event and benefit from other facilities put at their disposal.
Journalists are also reminded to note that there will be a dual accreditation process for the summit. The African Union will issue the conference badges, while the Ethiopian authorities will issue the security badge. The Conference badge is to be collected at the African Union Commission. You will be informed as soon as possible the day of collecting the badges.
Both badges are required to gain entry into the premises of the Conference Center to cover the proceedings of the Pledging Conference on the Horn of Africa.
For more information, please consult the AU website:
http://au.int/pages/savinglives
Topic Resources
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.
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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