ACC/SCN, Geneva, 16 December 1996 - No. 18
ACC/SCN
REFUGEE NUTRITION INFORMATION SYSTEM
UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON
COORDINATION
SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION
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official positions of the ACC/SCN and its U.N. member agencies. The designations
employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the
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This report was compiled by Jane Wallace, ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Jeremy Shoham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from UNHCR and WFP. UNHCR kindly provided many of the maps used.
We would like to thank all those agencies who contributed information to this report, particularly ACF, CONCERN, UN/DHA, EPICENTRE, FAO, ICRC, IFRC, MERLIN, MSF-Belgium, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, SCF-UK, Trocaire, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID and WFP.
1. Angola
2. Benin/Ghana/Togo Region
3. Burkina Faso and Mauritania - Malian Refugees
4. Burundi/Rwanda (Great Lakes) Situation
5. Central African Republic
6. Djibouti
7. Ethiopia
8. Kenya
9. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region
10. Mozambique Region
11. Somalia
12. Sudan
13. Uganda
14. Zaire
15. Zambia
16. Afghanistan Region
17. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
18. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh
19. Southern Iraq
LISTING OF SOURCES FOR DECEMBER 1996 RNIS REPORT #18
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND ANNEXES
Table 1. Information Available on Total Refugee/Displaced Populations (As of December 1996)
Table 2. Summary of Origin and Location of Major Populations of Refugees, Returnees and Displaced People in Africa - December 1996 - RNIS #18 (Population Estimates in Thousands)
Figure 1. Refugee and Displaced Populations - Selected Areas in Africa (December 1996)
Figure 2. Trends in Total Refugee/Displaced Populations by Risk Categories Africa: December 1993-December 1996
Figure 3. Shaded Areas Indicate those at Heightened Nutritional Risk Categories I and IIa in Table I)
Annex I. Results of Surveys Quoted in December RNIS Report (#18) - Usually Children 6-59 Months
Annex II. Seasonality
Map A. Situational Map
Map 1. Angola
Map 3. Mauritania
Map 4. Burundi/Rwanda Region
Map 6. Djibouti
Map 7. Ethiopia
Map 8. Kenya
Map 9a,b. Liberia/Sierra Leone
Map 10. Mozambique
Map 11. Somalia
Map 12. Sudan
Map 13. Uganda
Map 14. Zaire
Map 16. Afghanistan
Map 17. Nepal
Map 18. Bangladesh