West and Central Africa: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (27 jan – 04 feb 2021)

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC MONKEYPOX DISEASE RETURNS AFTER BEING DECLARED OVER FOOD INSECURITY REACHES CRISIS LEVEL AFFECTING MORE THAN 1 Two confirmed and six suspected cases of MILLION monkeypox were detected in the Kembé- Satema health district, after the epidemic was Across the country, over one million people declared over on 27 December 2020. WHO are currently food insecure. More than half airlifted two tons of Interagency Emergency live in Tillaberi region with a particularly high Health Kits to respond to needs in the health concentration in N'Gourti, Bosso, N'Guigmi, district, including medications against , Abala, Ayorou, pneumonia and malaria. Humanitarian partners MAURITANIA and towns. These departments are are dispatching health kits to the district MALI experiencing population movements and hospital of Kembé town and deploying doctors access challenges due to insecurity. Food to provide treatments. Monkeypox is a rare NIGER SENEGAL insecurity is projected to worsen in 17 infection that occurs sporadically in forested CHAD departments, according to food security GAMBIA experts. The figure is expected to rise to areas of Central and West Africa. BURKINA GUINEA FASO more than 1,700,000 by the June to August 200,000 PEOPLE UPROOTED IN LESS BISSAU GUINEA BENIN CENTRAL AFRICAN lean season. THAN TWO MONTHS REPUBLIC CÔTE NIGERIA Insecurity related to the recent elections in the SIERRA LEONE D’IVOIRE INSECURITY FORCES HEALTH Central African Republic has forced more than GHANA FACILITIES TO CLOSE IN TILLABÉRI 200,000 people to flee their homes in less than LIBERIA CAMEROON REGION two months. More than half are displaced TOGO within the country, but 92,000 people have Due to continuous attacks against civilians crossed into the Democratic Republic of the EQUATORIAL GUINEA and health staff, 31 health facilities were Congo, while more than 13,200 are now in CONGO forced to close in the departments of Cameroon, Chad, and the Republic of the GABON DEMOCRATIC Banibangou, Abala, and . Congo. Persistent instability hampers This aggravates the vulnerability of humanitarian aid efforts and poses challenges REPUBLIC OF CONGO populations, and the risk of epidemics in accessing internally displaced people. The spreading in the zone. Diseases such as main road usually used to supply Bangui has polio could potentially remain undetected. In been closed. January 2020, 18 cases were diagnosed in AID WORKERS UNHARMED IN the Tillabéri region. Over the same period in BANGUI ATTACK DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 2021, two cases were recorded, while CONGO access to health services is minimal. The CABO VERDE SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE Tillabéri region continues to face insecurity 4,500 NEW CASES OF MEASLES IN perpetrated by armed groups along the NORTH AND SOUTH UBANGUI border with Mali, causing forced population Measles has resurfaced in the provinces of displacement and increasing humanitarian North and South Ubangui with cases rising to needs. 4,500 since the outbreak mid-December 2020, affecting mostly children under five years. Natural disaster Many of the cases are complicated and associated with malnutrition. Humanitarian Epidemic partners are conducting assessments in the health zone of Bosobolo, North Ubangi, in Conflict preparation for a potential intervention. Two Creation date: 04 Feb 2021 Map data sources: UNCS, DevInfo, OCHA. Feedback: [email protected] Twitter: @OCHAROWCA other health zones are also being monitored The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Other where cases have been notified. A two-year long measles outbreak that killed over 7,000 children had been declared over in August Visit the Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot database at: https://weekly-wca.unocha.org 2020.