Refugee Nutrition Information System (RNIS), No. 15 - Report on the Nutrition Situation of Refugee and Displaced Populations













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ACC/SCN, Geneva, 12 April 1996 - No. 15

ACC/SCN
REFUGEE NUTRITION INFORMATION SYSTEM

UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE ON COORDINATION
SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION

ACC/SCN, c/o World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Telephone: [41-22] 791 04 56, Fax: [41-22] 798 88 91, EMail: ACCSCN@WHO.CH

This report is issued on the general responsibility of the Secretariat of the U.N.'s ACC/Sub-Committee on Nutrition; the material it contains should not be regarded as necessarily endorsed by, or reflecting the 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 expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the ACC/SCN or its U.N. member agencies concerning the legal Status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

This report was compiled by the ACC/SCN Secretariat, with the help of Jeremy Shoham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Funding support is gratefully acknowledged from CIDA, NORAD, UNHCR, and WFP, as are inputs in kind from UNICEF and Save the Children Fund, UK. 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, FAO, ICRC, IFRC, MSF-Belgium, MSF-CIS, MSF-France, MSF-Holland, MSF-Switzerland, SCF-UK, UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID, WFP, WHO, and WV.


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HIGHLIGHTS

INTRODUCTION

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

1. Angola (see Map 1 and Figure 3)
2. Benin/Ghana/Togo Region
3. Burkina Faso and Mauritania - Malian Refugees (see Map 3)
4. Burundi/Rwanda Situation (See Map 4 and Figure 3)
5. Central African Republic
6. Djibouti (see Map 6)
7. Ethiopia (see Map 7)
8. Kenya (see Map 8)
9. Liberia/Sierra Leone Region (see Map 9 a, b and Figure 3)
10. Mauritanian Refugees in Senegal (see Map 3)
11. Mozambique Region (see Map 11 and Figure 3)
12. Somalia (see Map 12 and Figure 3)
13. Sudan (see Map 13 and Figure 3)
14. Uganda (see Map 14)
15. Zaire (see Map 15)
16. Zambia

ASIA - SELECTED SITUATIONS

17. Afghanistan Region (see Map 17)
18. Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal (see Map 18)
19. Refugees from Rakhine State, Myanmar in Bangladesh (see Map 19)
20. Southern Iraq

LISTING OF SOURCES FOR APRIL 1996 RNIS REPORT

LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND ANNEXES

Table 1. Information Available on Refugee/Displaced Populations (As of April 1996)
Table 2. Summary of Origin and Location of Major Populations of Refugees, Returnees and Displaced People in Africa - April 1996 - RNIS #15 (Population Estimates in Thousands)
Figure 1. Refugee and Displaced Populations - Selected Areas in Africa (April 1996)
Figure 2. Trends in Total Refugee/Displaced Populations by Risk Categories - Africa: December 1993-April 1996
Figure 3. Shaded Areas Indicate those at Heightened Nutritional Risk Categories I and IIa in Table 1)
Annex I. Results of Surveys Quoted in April RNIS Report (# 15) - Usually Children 6-59 Months
Annex II. Seasonality

LIST OF MAPS

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 11. Mozambique
Map 12. Somalia
Map 13. Sudan
Map 14. Uganda
Map 15. Zaire
Map 17. Afghanistan
Map 18. Nepal
Map 19. Bangladesh