UNHCR Update Libya (30 April 2021) [EN/AR]
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Population movement
As of 29 April, 5,218 refugees and migrants have been registered as rescued/intercepted at sea by the Libyan Coast Guard and disembarked in Libya.
On 23 April, a shipwreck off the coast of Libya claimed the lives of up to 130 people.
The rubber boat, which reportedly embarked from the Al Khoms area east of Tripoli, is said to have capsized due to bad weather. So far in 2021 alone, at least 300 other people have drowned or gone missing in the Central Mediterranean. This is a significant increase compared to the same period last year when some 150 people drowned or went missing along the same route.
Close Ties with Neighbours: Disaster Risk Reduction and Strengthened Social Cohesion in Cox’s Bazar
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“Our ethnic group – the Chakma – moved here 60 to 70 years ago. Later, the Rohingyas came and we learned to live together like brothers,” Nichabong recalls.
One of the camp’s long-standing residents, host community member Nichabong and his family, have been living for decades in what is known today as Camp 22.
Multiple camps in Cox’s Bazar are marked by a mixed demographic comprising both host community members and Rohingya refugees who settled there during the 2017 influx or even prior. The Chakma host community in Camp 22 in Cox’s Bazar has been welcoming refugees for ages and to this day maintains close ties with its neighbors.
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2. Close up, participant reading program
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45. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Mauanja, Relief, Reintegration & Protection Officer, UNMISS:
“Quick Impact Projects are the vehicle by which the mission delivers on its mandate. We’ve observed that there is a plethora of implementing partners who are implementing particular activities out there. However, there is a need to improve the quality of work they do and the manner in which they implement Quick Impact Projects. So, this workshop comes in handy and timely to equip our implementing partners with the basic skills to deliver on Quick Impact Projects, from the formulation to implementation, monitoring and evaluation.”
AMISOM gives hope to ailing Somali boy in Kismayo
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Kismayo, 2 May 2021 It all started as a pimple, then festering wounds that spread rapidly, to his limbs and other parts of the body, rendering him immobile.
This is a condition that 12-year-old Ahmed Sahal Osman, who hails from Afmadow town in Lower Jubba region of Somalia, about 120 kilometres west of Kismayo has been battling with for almost two years.
Mohamed Nur Mohamed recalls that day in September 2018 when he first spotted what appeared to be a pimple on his nephew s skin. His illness started with repetitive infection which would burst after days. It was very painful. He could neither sleep nor eat, Mohamed, Sahal s uncle says.