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UNITED NATIO OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA)

HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN

Situation Report

Reporting Period: 16 - 31 May 2002

Critical Issues q By the end of May, security assessments had been carried out in 27 of the 35 family reception areas (FRAs) in 14 provinces. All of the assessed areas, except one, were cleared for UN humanitarian operations. Emergency life-saving operations began in nine FRAs including Chimboa, Chingongo, , Fazenda Santa Ana, Fazenda Malongo, Ngangasol, Passe, Satchitembo and Uamba. In most of the assessed areas, food assistance, basic health services, nutritional programs, vaccination campaigns and essential non-food items are urgently required. q IDPs in Ussoque, Province, require essential medicines, nutritional centers, potable water and tents. q Nutrition and water and sanitation interventions are required to assist new arrivals in the overcrowded Canjanguity IDP camp in Matala Municipality, Huíla Province. q Humanitarian partners remain concerned about the nutritional situation in Municipality and the Cambondo resettlement area where admissions at supplementary feeding centres have increased.

Provincial Update

Bengo Province: On 25-26 May, a joint assessment team of Government and NGO representatives visited , Municipality, and reported that the next harvest may not cover the food requirements of more than 15,000 inhabitants. Insufficient seeds and tools for the next agricultural campaign are expected to cause food insecurity among IDPs from Boa Esperança camp in who plan to return to their areas of origin in Nambuangongo.

Benguela Province: Between 26 – 31 May, partners assessed the humanitarian situation in four family reception areas (FRAs). Preliminary nutritional screenings in the areas indicate critical levels of malnutrition among family members. In addition, more than 31,660 UNITA family members require non-food item assistance, include essential medicines and shelter materials.

Humanitarian partners remain concerned about the condition of approximately 4,700 IDPs in Culango, Municipality. Assistance has been delayed due to suspected mine infestation and lack of funding for demining operations.

During the reporting period, 1,715 new IDPs from areas without food or medical assistance were registered and assisted in and Ganda.

Cunene Province: Approximately 500 new IDPs from Chiede were registered and assisted at Omatemba camp, Municipality. Local authorities report a high incidence of water-borne diseases among these IDPs due to lack of potable water and inadequate sanitation.

Huambo Province: On 22 May, a joint team based in conducted an assessment mission to Ussoque, Municipality, . The team carried out a nutritional screening among 533 under-five children and recorded severe and moderate malnutrition rates of 5.6 and 13.1 percent. Thirty severely malnourished children were taken to the therapeutic feeding center (TFC) in Balombo. Moderately malnourished children received food assistance at two recently opened community kitchens in Ussoque. Additional food and non-food assistance was provided to 845 new

IDPs who have arrived in Ussoque since March. Essential medicines, nutritional interventions, potable water and tents are still required. The mission agreed that assistance to Ussoque should be provided from Balombo, situated 28 km from Ussoque.

Huíla Province: Between 25 – 29 May, a joint mission assessed the situation at the Galangue quartering area and sites near Km 50. Critical needs include essential drugs, vaccinations, blankets and clothes, agricultural inputs and an adequate water supply.

Although movements of displaced populations into Matala Municipality have decreased in recent weeks, new arrivals from areas near were registered at the overcrowded Canjanguity IDP camp. During the last ten days of May, 641 new IDPs arrived at Canjanguity and Fazenda Tomba IDP camps. The capacity of partners to assist arrivals is stretched to the limit.

Kuando Kubango Province: The municipal administration reported critical needs in Capembe and Tchimongua quartering areas. Reports indicate that ten to 15 deaths per week are occurring in each area. Humanitarian partners plan to assess health and nutrition conditions in the two areas and conduct a registration of civilians.

The reception centre in received 65 new arrivals from Luhemba and Candingo and 57 new IDPs from and Mavinga were registered at the reception centre in Kuito Kuanavale. More than 620 IDPs at the Menongue reception centre are awaiting resettlement. On 22 May, humanitarian partners completed construction of a three-room school at the Liapeca resettlement area with capacity for more than 70 children.

Lunda Sul Province: On 28 – 29 May, a joint mission assessed the humanitarian situation in the Tchinegi and Peso Velho quartering areas. The team reported that nutrition conditions among civilians are critical. Many new IDPs arriving at the transit centre are coming from the quartering areas. The most critical cases are transported to the therapeutic feeding centre at Luari camp. Between 20 – 29 May, 336 new IDPs were registered and assisted in Saurimo with food and non-food items.

Fourteen health posts in Saurimo and Dala Municipalities received medicines to treat leprosy through a joint Ministry of Health – World Health Organization initiative to eradicate leprosy. On 21 May, health post technicians received training on leprosy prevention and treatment.

Malanje Province: The humanitarian situation in the quartering areas remains critical and food assistance and health and nutrition and water and sanitation programs are urgently required. According to local authorities, 20 percent of the children in these areas are unaccompanied. Efforts are underway to reunite them with their families or place them with host families. Forty-nine unaccompanied children were transported to nutritional feeding centres due to their poor nutritional status.

A nutritional screening carried out on 20 May in Calandula Municipality indicated that 13.4 percent of 587 under-five children were moderately malnourished. Partners have decided to expand their activities to the area and deliver weekly dry rations to address the nutritional situation. The nutritional status of IDPs remains serious in the Cambondo resettlement area and admissions of new arrivals from previously inaccessible areas have increased at supplementary feeding centres.

Many IDPs currently living in town plan to return to their areas of origin before August in order to build their houses and prepare land for the next agricultural campaign. Mine infestation in the return areas is a major constraint and demining organizations in the province do not have sufficient capacity to address the problem. Local authorities report that 9,000 IDPs who recently returned to Caculama Municipality require food and non-food assistance.

Moxico Province: During the last week of May, the registration and verification team in Luena reported the arrival of 168 new IDPs from Cangumbe, and . Many of the new arrivals were in poor condition and received urgent food and medical assistance. Municipal authorities in reported the arrival of 67 IDPs from Tempue commune.

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