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  • WFP Mauritania Country Brief, November 2020

    OPERATIONAL UPDATES

    • Lean season response ended in November 2020. A preliminary appraisal of WFP’s drought-response activities indicates the positive impacts of the response provided from May to September in the regions of Tagant and from June to November in Guidimakha, Assaba, Gorgol and Hodh El Charghi. According to several assessments (2019/2020), these regions are characterized with highest prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition. A total of 147,667 people (63 percent of the general CSP target) received cash transfers as part of the general food distributions, including 16,400 girls, boys and pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) who also received fortified blended foods to prevent malnutrition.

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    Tags : Mauritania, WFP, humanitarian aid,

  • In the news: Libya talks kick off in Geneva

    Senior military officers from both sides of Libya’s escalating conflict are in Geneva this week to try to negotiate a “permanent and lasting” ceasefire, the UN’s envoy to the country said Tuesday. Ghassan Salamé told reporters he believed there was a “genuine will to start negotiating” between…

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    Tags : Libya, humanitarian aid,

  • Tunisia: North Africa’s overlooked migration hub

    Fatoumata Camara and her two young sons have spent nearly two years in a red-brick building in the desert town of Medenine in southeast Tunisia – 3,600 kilometres as the crow flies from her hometown in Guinea, and more than 500 …

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    Tags : Tunisia, humanitarian aid, migration,