Highlights: • Average to above.average rainfall improved water crop and pasture conditions catalysing agricultural and pastoral opportunities in most parts of the region, increasing the above-average...
DR Congo + 16 more
DR Congo + 16 more
Highlights: • Average to above.average rainfall improved water crop and pasture conditions catalysing agricultural and pastoral opportunities in most parts of the region, increasing the above-average...
DR Congo + 16 more
Highlights • 51.3 million people are projected to be food insecure in Southern Africa (Figure 1). The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to magnify the scale and severity of food insecurity. • 2.3...
Angola + 24 more
HIGHLIGHTS### South Africa continues to report the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the African continent. Inadequate access to personal protective equipment or weak infection...
Angola + 24 more
HIGHLIGHTS South Africa continues to report the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the African continent. Inadequate access to personal protective equipment or weak infection prevention...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS With more than 10,000 COVID-19 cases now recorded daily, South Africa is the worst-affected country on the African continent. In Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the number of...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS June was a critical month for the COVID-19 outbreak across Southern and Eastern Africa. COVID-19 cases more than quadrupled in Malawi and South Africa; more than tripled in Kenya,...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS Several countries in Southern and Eastern Africa have reported a significant uptick in daily cases over the past weeks, including Sudan, South Africa and Zambia. Although all countries in...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS With Lesotho confirming on 13 May its first case of COVID-19, all countries in Southern and Eastern Africa have now been affected by the pandemic. South Africa confirmed that over 16,000...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS With Lesotho confirming on 13 May its first case of COVID-19, all countries in Southern and Eastern Africa have now been affected by the pandemic. South Africa, the first country in the...
Angola + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS With Lesotho confirming on 13 May its first case of COVID-19, all countries in Southern and Eastern Africa have now been affected by the pandemic. South Africa, the first country in the...
South Africa + 23 more
HIGHLIGHTS Comoros reported, on 30 April, its first case of a person who contracted COVID-19. Lesotho remains the only country in Africa with no confirmed cases to date. South Africa, the first...
Malawi + 15 more
HIGHLIGHTS 9.6 million people were severely food-insecure in Southern Africa at the start of the lean season (October 2018- April 2019) Three districts in Zimbabwe and two in Madagascar are facing...
DR Congo + 14 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Climate Prediction Centre is predicting El Niño climatic conditions during the main 2018-19 growing season with 70-75% probability while IRI has increased the probability to...
Madagascar + 16 more
HIGHLIGHTS More than 400,000 people across the region have been affected by floods and cyclones in 2018. There is a 65-70 per cent probability of an El Niño event between December and February, as...
DR Congo + 14 more
Key messages • The 2017-18 rainfall season was characterized by a late start, an extended mid-season dry spell (December-January) and heavy rains from February into April. The dry spell caused...
DR Congo + 14 more
Key Messages Cereal production during the upcoming harvest season in Southern Africa is expected to be below average, despite the heavy late rains, which benefitted the late planted crops. This is...
Madagascar + 12 more
Key Figures 75% shortfall in rain in large parts of the region during January 14,732 cholera cases and 218 deaths reported since 2017 234,200 people affected by floods and cyclones in 2018 Overview ...
DR Congo + 12 more
Overview 12 countries (Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe) had finalised their annual vulnerability assessments...
World + 16 more
Trend analysis Southern Africa’s poorest rainfall season in decades, precipitated by the El Niño weather event, has resulted in long-term drought related damage in the region, which even the moderate...
World + 16 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Abnormal rainfall patterns during 2014/2015 have contributed to a spike in food insecurity, which is currently affecting at least 27.4 m people regionally (and this excludes Angola,...