The South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) is an annual multiagency, multisectoral costed plan to respond to the ongoing South Sudanese refugee crisis in the five main countries of asylum:...
Uganda + 5 more
Uganda + 5 more
The South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) is an annual multiagency, multisectoral costed plan to respond to the ongoing South Sudanese refugee crisis in the five main countries of asylum:...
Uganda + 5 more
Regional Overview Executive Summary The 2024 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRP) is a collective, multisectoral endeavour involving 123 partners, including United Nations agencies,...
Description Baringo County borders Turkana and Samburu Counties to the North, Laikipia to the East, Nakuru and Kericho to the South, Uasin Gishu to the South West, Elgeyo Marakwet and West Pokot to...
Overview The seasonal performance of the 2023 short rains, associated with two consecutive seasons of improvement from the 2023 Long Rains Assessment (LRA) to the 2023 Short Rains Assessment (SRA),...
Madagascar + 6 more
Multiple crises worsened by climate change threaten lives of 45 million children Nairobi, 25 March 2024-- As a prolonged heatwave and drought grip several countries in Eastern and Southern Africa,...
South Sudan + 5 more
In February, local currency depreciation aggravated food prices and placed an extra burden on people, many of whom were already acutely food insecure. Some 5.78 million people are projected to be at...
World + 4 more
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB screening and preventive treatment. A modelling study developed with Governments of four...
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Overview This document presents the findings of a modelling study that examined in detail the costs and benefits of tuberculosis (TB) screening plus TB preventive treatment (TPT) in four countries –...
Zambia + 17 more
Overview The cholera outbreak in the WHO African Region has affected 18 countries over the last two years. Five countries are categorized as being in acute crisis (Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
Zimbabwe + 40 more
This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Poliomyelitis (cVDP2) in Zimbabwe Floods in Malawi- Floods in Madagascar For...
Nigeria + 40 more
Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African region. This week’s articles cover: Measles in Mauritania Cholera in the United Republic of Tanzania...
Kenya + 3 more
WHO urges investments for the scale up of tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB...
SITUATION UPDATE Despite increased rainfall in the last quarter of 2023, the number of people experiencing hunger remained high. In the pastoral areas, forage and water resources significantly...
South Sudan + 5 more
REGIONAL SITUATION OVERVIEW By the end of 2022, South Sudanese were the fifth largest population of refugees, people in refugee-like situations, and other people in need of international protection ...
Malawi + 30 more
Overview Data as of 29 February 2024 In February 2024 (corresponding to the epidemiological weeks from 5 to 8), a total of 37 269 new cholera cases were reported from 20 countries across three WHO...
Zambia + 17 more
Overview The cholera outbreak in the WHO African Region has affected 18 countries over the last two years. Five countries are categorized as being in acute crisis (Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
Ethiopia + 10 more
In Eastern Africa, humanitarian needs continued to be driven by severe climate events (droughts and floods), conflicts, disease outbreaks, and economic shocks throughout 2023 and into 2024. These...
Ethiopia + 4 more
The Greater Horn of Africa¹ faces a convergence of increasingly recurring and intensifying climate crises, mainly drought and flooding, conflicts, disease outbreaks, and economic shocks. These,...
Kenya + 3 more
HIGHLIGHTS By July 2023, approximately 2.8 million people were food-insecure and in need of humanitarian assistance, down from 4.4 million people in February 2023. The number of children 6 to 59...
Colombia + 17 more
The Start Fund monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the...