Chad
• A budget revision to extend PRRO 10510 through March 2009, with additional resources, has been approved. This will allow WFP to design a new project for 15 months starting in April 2009.
• The request for an early budget release for EMOP 10559.1 has been granted to allow WFP to receive donor contributions. Through this EMOP, WFP will provide assistance to 250,000 Sudanese refugees, 185,000 IDPs and over 150,000 host populations in eastern Chad. The project also makes a contingency provision for 43,000 individuals.
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DRC
• WFP is taking all necessary steps for a rapid deployment in Dungu with an air bridge that will ensure humanitarian aid is distributed rapidly to people attacked by LRA rebels while road convoys from Uganda and through south Sudan are being arranged.
• Severe pipeline breaks continue as well as the prioritization and ration cuts for some beneficiaries and activities.
Ethiopia
• On 4th October, the Ministry of Trade and Industry increased the fuel price from 9.65 ETB to 10.15 ETB per litre, raising the price above one US dollar for the first time. The new tariff has been introduced to reduce Government’s subsidy on oil in favour of a subsidy on food. A rise in transport fares and prices of other commodities – food included – is expected in the weeks to come.
Kenya
• During September, the refugee operation reported a total 1,000 new arrivals at the Dadaab camp.
• 15,000 mt maize arrived in Mombasa last week and will be distributed to the EMOP operations. Uplift from Mombasa is however stretched due to non-availability of trucks for WFP Kenya owing to competing cargo to other destinations.
• With the onset of the rains, it is expected that accessibility of roads especially for the arid districts may deteriorate, which would further hamper distribution activities.
Sudan
• WFP started emergency food ration distributions for returnee households in six villages in Kurmuk, Blue Nile State, who have been affected by severe floods experienced in the state. Reuters had earlier reported the deaths of 69 children due to sickness. This is yet to be confirmed. WFP and other agencies have launched rapid assessments in affected locations. However, accessibility is a major concern with continuing rains and increasing river levels, which have made road passage difficult. The humanitarian community has mobilised tractor trailers and helicopters to improve access.
• UNHCR has confirmed reports of approximately 1,200 Congolese refugees in Yambio county, in Western Equatoria State which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo. These groups were fleeing armed attacks, from groups believed to be the Lords Resistance Army from Uganda. OCHA estimates that as many as 10,000 refugees from Congo and a further 30,000 southern Sudanese internally displaced people (IDP) and vulnerable residents could potentially result from rebel activity in these border areas. WFP and other agencies have initiated emergency assistance to 1,200 refugees, and are preparing contingency plans to support an increased caseload, should the need arise.
• WFP plans to resume airlifts of food (1,116 mt) in support of Gogrial IDPs following the recommendation of a rapid food assessment that found a precarious food security situation in the county. Poor road access, caused by heavy rains and floods, has made airlifts the only option for food deliveries
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