The first pilot biometric food distribution system was successfully completed within 8.5 days in Jewi Refugee Camp. From the total targeted population of 48,639 persons, 37,403 persons were able to collect food ration using the Biometrics system showing a 23% no show rate. Additional tests will be undertaken in the coming two months to draw a clear trend within which the construction of the two biometrics food centres in Jewi camp would have been completed.

An EXCOM donor mission from Geneva visited Uganda (Adjumani) to gain a deeper understanding of UNHCR and partners responses to refugee influxes.

In Maban, UNHCR scaled up services at Gentil hospital, with a 24-hrs emergency room and maternity ward, and adult and pediatric in-patient departments.

Two years after: The Chibok Girls Must Be Found – and Freed (International Crisis Group)

Boko Haram bombers: 151 suicide attacks in 2015. One in five were by children and 75% of children used were girls (Unicef)

Children in northeast Nigeria continue to pay a heavy price for violence committed by the militant group (UNHCR Kora)

Obama sees momentum in fight against Islamic State.

In the first week of March, WFP staff started distributions of ready-to-eat (RTE) parcels to Syrians waiting at the North-eastern border

March was the first month since April 2014 where WFP provided the planned amounts of monthly restricted cash-based transfer (rCBT) to all eligible beneficiaries

In April, WFP received 306 tonnes of dates from Saudi Arabia