RIACSO REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY SITUATION REPORT: LESOTHO Highlights - Improved rainfall may result in better cropping conditions for the 2008/09 season although excessive rains could also negatively...
Lesotho + 7 more
Lesotho + 7 more
RIACSO REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY SITUATION REPORT: LESOTHO Highlights - Improved rainfall may result in better cropping conditions for the 2008/09 season although excessive rains could also negatively...
Afghanistan + 8 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania continue to supply maize to grain deficit countries. However, regional surpluses are not enough to cover these deficits in the different countries...
Lesotho + 8 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: The Regional Vulnerability Assessment Committee (rVAC) recently reported a regional cereal deficit of three million metric tonnes (MT) for this season. Regional deficits have in...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Zimbabwe: The country's agricultural production is estimated at 500,000 tonnes, representing a 44 percent drop from last year, according to preliminary CFSAM results. More than two million...
Angola + 9 more
HIGHLIGHTS Food Security Assessments: Two new reports on Zimbabwe and Swaziland from WFP/FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment Missions (CFSAM) have been released, and a third on Lesotho is expected...
Angola + 9 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: Early recovery efforts are underway across several countries in the region after months of emergency efforts. More than a million people's livelihoods are still fragile due to a...
Angola + 8 more
REGIONAL OVERVIEW Cyclones and flooding continue to batter numerous countries in Southern Africa, threatening the lives of over a million vulnerable people. Although regional capacity for disaster...
Angola + 7 more
REGIONAL OVERVIEW Flooding conditions continued to be the central concern in the region as weeks of torrential rains caused the River Zambezi to burst its banks affecting Mozambique, Namibia and...
Angola + 7 more
REGIONAL OVERVIEW Earlier and heavier rains than usual have led to the significant floods throughout the region, including in Angola, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. So...
Angola + 7 more
REGIONAL OVERVIEW Overall, the 2006/07 agricultural season has started relatively well thanks to favourable rainfall in most of the southern African region. However, late or insufficient rainfall and...
Zimbabwe + 4 more
REGIONAL OVERVIEW The 2006/07 agricultural season in southern Africa is well underway. Over the past two months, significant rains were reported in several parts of the region, including southwestern...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Zimbabwe: WFP estimates that 1.4 million people are in critical need of food assistance, based on the preliminary findings of the VAC. This number is expected to rise to 1.9 million people...
Angola + 9 more
HIGHLIGHTS Angola: Over the past eight months, 1,200 cases of malnutrition were registered, compared to 845 detected during the same period of 2005 in Huila. Most of the cases have been detected in...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Angola: A measles outbreak occurred and spread to six provinces and killed more than 25 children in Huamba. A nationwide campaign, to reach 3.5 million children with measles and polio...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Angola: The cholera outbreak that began in February is showing signs of an overall decline. Since February, an estimated 48,817 people were infected and the disease claimed the lives of...
Angola + 9 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: WFP, World Vision and TNT hosted Walk the World: Fight Against Hunger on 21 May in Kyalami, Johannesburg. More than 760 000 people in 118 countries and 420 locations across 24...
Mozambique + 3 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: The peak of the 2005-2006 hunger period is coming to an end, although concerns exist over the precarious condition of vulnerable populations due to limited food access, outbreak...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: In the period under review, the region experienced earthquakes in Mozambique; an outbreak of severe diarrhea in Botswana; floods in Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Lesotho...
Zimbabwe + 8 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: Some areas in the region are receiving too much or too little rain, but generally conditions for agriculture remain positive, allowing for some cautious optimism. Early season...
Angola + 7 more
HIGHLIGHTS Regional: Good rains are allowing for some cautious optimism with regards to the humanitarian situation in the region. However, floods, armyworm and under funding of humanitarian and...