CHAD
180 CASES OF MEASLES RECORDED
Around 180 cases of measles, including three deaths were reported in Abeche in the east of the country during the month of June. The outbreak is likely due to the return of gold miners from neighbouring Sudan, which is battling to contain its worst measles outbreak in recent years. A response plan is being implemented and the situation seems to be under control.
LIBERIA
3 CONFIRMED EBOLA CASES
As of 3 July, Liberia’s Ministry of Health reported three confirmed EVD cases, including a patient who died on 28 June, becoming the country’s first Ebola death since the country was declared free of the virus on 9 May. A total of 172 people thought to have been in contact with the new patients are being monitored. Robust contract tracing is underway and the government has urged enhanced preventive measures. Humanitarian partners are providing food and nonfood items to the community in which the first EVD death occurred.
MALI
6 PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN AMBUSH
On 2 July, six MINUSMA peacekeepers were killed and five others severely wounded when their convoy came under attack in the northern Timbuktu region. The incident brings to 42 the number of peacekeepers killed, including 10 in 2015 alone, and 166 wounded since MINUSMA deployed in Mali in April 2013. The UN Security Council condemned the attack and pointed out that attacks on peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law.
NIGER
10 KILLED IN ARMED RAID
Ten people were killed during a raid by suspected insurgents on Assaga village in the southeastern Diffa region on the night of 27 June. It was the third such attack in two weeks in Diffa.
Around 3,000 people are displaced and living on a site by the main road. They are surviving with the help of the local population. A rapid joint assessment mission consisting of the Regional Committee for Refugees Management and Coordination and OCHA visited the site on 1 July to assess needs in order to establish a response plan. The needs identified are food, water, sanitation, shelter and non-food items as well as protection.
NIGERIA
230 KILLED IN WAVE OF ATTACKS
More than 230 people have been killed in a series of armed attacks in north-eastern Nigeria since 1 July, according to media reports. On 5 July, at least 44 people were killed in near simultaneous twin blasts at a shopping centre and outside a mosque in the central city of Jos.
Suicide bombings and armed raids between 3 - 5 July killed dozens of people, including five worshippers in the north-eastern city of Potiskum. In two days of attacks that started on 1 July, almost 150 people were killed in remote villages near Lake Chad. Suspected Boko Haram militants have stepped up raids in recent weeks and have also been blamed for suicide bombings in the Chadian capital as well as attacks on villages in southern Niger in June.
EVD REGIONAL
26 NEW CASES REPORTED
Since the death of the first Ebola patient in Liberia on 28 June, two new cases have been confirmed. In Guinea, 18 new confirmed cases were reported during the reporting period.
Several reinforced surveillance and social mobilisation campaigns have been launched in the various EVD hotspots. Six new cases were reported as of 2 July in Sierra Leone, where humanitarian actors have recommended the extension of a 21-day curfew and enhanced health intervention in the country’s three EVD hotspots.
