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Niger: OCHA Niger Flash Update No 2 - Gueskerou - Diffa, 24 June 2015

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Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Niger

  • On the night between 17 to 18 June, three villages (Lamana, Boulamare and NGoumao) in the commune of Gueskerou (about 50 km east of Diffa) were simultaneously attacked by insurgents (the attack has not been claimed).

  • These incidents caused 38 deaths among the civilian population and affected 1,050 households.

  • On 19 June, a joint rapid assessment mission was conducted to the field by the regional authorities, IOM, UNHCR, WFP and OCHA.

  • The monthly food and non-food items (NFIs) requirements are estimated respectively at 140 tons of cereals and 1,050 NFI kits. The assessment emergency shelters needs is ongoing.

  • In addition to the Government’s distribution of 70 tons of food to 700 households1 in the three affected villages, WFP has begun a distribution ensuring that each affected household receives a monthly full food ration2 .

  • Thus WFP will provide to 700 households receiving government cereals, a legumes and oil complement and will assist 350 other households with full rations. In addition, WFP will distribute a monthly blanket feeding ration (nutritional supplements) to children from 6 to 59 months of age as well as pregnant and lactating women. In total, the assistance provided by WFP is estimated at 72.056 tons of food.

  • To support households victims of Gueskerou attacks, the Government used part of the remaining inputs already made available by UNICEF (originally planned for the person displaced from the islands) to respond rapidly to this new emergency. To date, the government has distributed 2,100 sleeping mats, 1,700 blankets, 1,440 buckets, 100 tarpaulins and 300 jerry cans on the stock of NFI provided by UNICEF and prepositioned in Diffa.


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