GDACS Daily Newsletter for 2/4/2012

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System — Newsletter 04/02/2012

This daily newsletter provides an overview of the natural disasters that happened in the last 24 hours and response measures for ongoing disasters. GDACS currently covers earthquakes, tsunamis, tropical cyclones, volcanic eruptions and floods. The color coding (red, orange, green) is related to the estimated humanitarian impact of the event.

Disaster events in the last 24 hours

GDACS detected the following potential disasters. For up-to-date media coverage, latest maps and ReliefWeb content related to these disasters, please go to GDACS homepage.

Discussions in Virtual OSOCC

The GDACS Virtual OSOCC is a forum for emergency managers. If you are involved in an ongoing emergency as a local emergency management authority or as an international responder, please provide your information in the GDACS Virtual OSOCC. The following emergencies are currently open.

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ReliefWeb Situation Reports

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Cote d'Ivoire: Bulletin humanitaire No. 3, 3 fevrier 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:55:45 +0000
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia

Faits marquants

20 cas de meningite notifies dans le district sanitaire de Tengrela dans la partie nord du pays depuis la semaine 2 du mois de janvier 2012.

13.437 Personnes deplacees internes (PDI) vivent toujours sur 30 sites en Cote d?Ivoire.

La premiere phase d?evaluation conjointe incluant des agences et des ONG de Cote d?Ivoire et du Liberia sur la ?securite alimentaire, le relevement precoce et la stabilisation dans les regions frontalieres ? est terminee cote ivoirien.

South Sudan (Republic of): Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin - 2 February 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:53 +0000
Source:  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country:  South Sudan (Republic of), Sudan (the)

Highlights:

Over 140,000 conflict-affected people have been registered in need of aid in Jonglei State, with rapid inter-agency assessments largely complete and the focus shifting to aid delivery.

A militia attack in Warrap State killed 78 people, displaced 3,000 and affected 40,000 people, according to local authorities.

Humanitarian partners supported the movement of 20,000 refugees from insecure border areas in Upper Nile State to safer locations south.

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos called for increased support for South Sudan during a four-day visit to the country from 1-4 February.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (the): Bulletin d' Information Humanitaire - Province Orientale N? 02/12 - 24 janvier 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:36 +0000
Source:  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country:  Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)

Faits saillants

Plus de 600 cas de cholera et 20 deces dans les Zone de sante de Tchomia, Gety, Lita et Bunia.

Save the children renforce les activites de sensibilisation dans les ecoles pour lutter contre le cholera.

MSF a vaccine pres de 11 000 enfants contre la rougeole a Faradje centre.

Sudan (the): Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin - 23 - 29 January 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:20:59 +0000
Source:  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country:  Sudan (the), Ethiopia, South Sudan (Republic of)

Key Points

? Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People?s Liberation Movement ? North (SPLM-N) continues in parts of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, displacing more civilians.

? The estimated number of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan and Ethiopia reaches some 140,000 people.

? An airstrike by the SAF in South Sudan is reported to have hit a transit site where Sudanese refugees were sheltering, injuring one boy.

? Spontaneous returns to parts of the Abyei area north of the Bahr el Arab/Kiir River continue. ? IDP and refugee returns continue in various parts of Darfur.

? In Nyala, South Darfur, a UNAMID flight engineer who was abducted by armed men, was subsequently released.

occupied Palestinian territory: Protection of Civilians Weekly Report 25 - 31 January 2012 [EN/AR] Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:19:51 +0000
Source:  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country:  occupied Palestinian territory

Key issues

Israeli restrictions on Palestinian access to areas near the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip continue, resulting in the injury of one Palestinian civilian this week.

The Israeli authorities demolished two houses in East Jerusalem and Area C, displacing two families of 15 people.

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Somalia: Somalia: Population Movement Tracking - Since 1 Dec 2011 to date (Updated 03/02/2012) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:07:15 +0000
Country:  Somalia Source:  UN High Commissioner for Refugees Somalia: Somalia: PMT Mogadishu Dashboard - Last Updated 03/02/2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:04:09 +0000
Country:  Somalia Source:  UN High Commissioner for Refugees Cameroon: Cameroon: Yellow Fever Outbreak - Oct 2011- Location Map Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:53:19 +0000

Link: Yellow Fever in the North region - DREF operation n ? MDRCM013- 23 Jan 2012

Country: Cameroon Source: IFRC Haiti: Haiti: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of January 2012) (EN/FR) - updated 31 Jan 2012 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:41:58 +0000

Haiti is still facing important humanitarian needs with more than 515,000 people living in camps, a cholera epidemic that so far claimed the lives of 7,025 people and a situation of food insecurity affecting more than 45 per cent of the population.
An other risk factor is Haiti?s high level of vulnerability to natural disasters, particularly during the rain and hurricane season from April to November.

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

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