Humanitarian crises around the world continue to rise. While conflicts and violence are the source of major humanitarian needs, the situation is increasingly being worsened by natural disasters, such...
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Humanitarian crises around the world continue to rise. While conflicts and violence are the source of major humanitarian needs, the situation is increasingly being worsened by natural disasters, such...
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Overview In this edition of the COVID-19 Weekly Operational Update, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include: Delivering 6.6 tonnes of emergency medical kits to Sierra...
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Abstract: On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards,...
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Summary of the handbook From the heart of Tanzania to the mountains of Ethiopia to the borders of Bangladesh and Nepal; VSO's resilience programming is rapidly increasing. Volunteers, staff and...
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Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 30 June 2019: In Bukavu city, South Kivu province, a fire of unspecified origin at Zaire IDP Camp destroyed more than 200 houses, leaving 1,800 people without...
A fire season has been taking place in Kenya since early January 2019 due to a long dry spell. Severe forest fires have been declared in the vicinity of Mount Kenya last week and are now affecting...
Executive Summary The Accumulation of Risk in the Built Environment Kenya is an emerging middle income country with a growing share of its population living in urban areas. The country is at a...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report contains a review of international humanitarian assistance at the time of disasters as governed by the legal and policy framework in place in Kenya. It has also reviewed...
Following the fire incident that was reported yesterday evening on 10th March 2015 in Mukuru Kayaba slum that left 693 households homeless with 8 persons injured (5 critical and 3 minor). Barely less...
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Political and Security South-central: On 6 May, Al Shabab fighters ambushed the Raskambooni police base in Dobley town. The armed clashes lasted more than half an hour and one Raskambooni soldier...
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Political and Security South-central: Mogadishu has experienced a number of security incidents in recent days. On 2 May, the Representative met with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of...
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UNHCR Operation highlights Somalia is the country generating the third highest number of refugees in the world, after Afghanistan and Iraq. Somali people are facing one of the worst humanitarian...
SITUATION: A gasoline pipeline explosion earlier this week (Monday, Sept. 12) in the Sinai district of Nairobi, Kenya, killed at least 96 persons, prompting renewed worries about the vulnerabilities...
Caritas Kenya is supporting survivors of a huge fire that devastated the Sinai slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September. Over a hundred people were killed and a hundred more injured after...
CHF 205,575 was allocated from the Federation’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) in replenishing non food items used in delivering immediate...
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UNICEF PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN AND WOMEN AFFECTED BY DROUGHT, CONFLICT, FLOODS AND DISEASE OUTBREAKS - Violent attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia, have caused over 402,000 people to...