Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda
HIGHLIGHTS
- IGAD-led peace deal stalled. A regional peace summit of East African heads of state and governments, which was slated to take place on 23 November in Juba, has been postponed and new dates have not been announced. The delays in implementation are due to changes in the Constitution made by the Kiir-administration. In the deal several states would have been ruled by a majority of opposition parties. After the peace agreement was signed in Ethiopia, the Dinka leadership gathered in the Dinka Council of Elders, proposed to split the 10 states into 28 new states
- In Ethiopia, the current focus of the Gambella operation is the development of the new Pugnido 2 camp site, as well as the stabilization of all camps and continued protection and assistance to refugees in all locations.
- In Kenya, the new Director General of DG ECHO, Monique Pariat was on a one day familiarization visit to Kakuma Camp on 24 November.
- In Sudan, the inter-agency mission to South Kordofan State, Elleri locality, identified an overall lack of education assistance such as school facilities including WASH, equipment, incentives for South Sudanese teachers, teaching materials, feeding programmes and overcrowding of classes. UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and the State Ministry of Education are working towards an overall response to all the needs identified. In Abu Jubaiha locality, an absence of education facilities was identified as a primary gap. UNHCR is working towards resolving this issue.
- In Uganda, in Adjumani and Kiryandongo, a delegation of US Bureau of Population, Refugee and Migration (BPRM) visited the West Nile Operation to monitor projects under their funding, largely in nutrition, protection, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and reproductive health implemented by ACF, War Child Canada, and UNFPA/ IRC respectively.
- In South Sudan, Western Equatoria, security deteriorates, refugees flee – The security situation in Ezo, Western Equatoria continues to deteriorate, and has directly impacted on the 3,266 refugees who reside in the settlement of Ezo, 2km outside the town, causing refugees to scatter.