Zimbabwe

Heavy rainfall triggers flooding in Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania while parts of Southern Africa remain dry

Africa Weather Hazards

1. Parts of Lake Victoria, Rwanda, Burundi and the southern Kenya will remain under flash flood risk into next week.

2. Desert Locust breeding is expected to extend from Afar region of Ethiopia northward into Djibouti and Eritrea, and northern parts of Kenya.

L’Afrique subsaharienne sera l’un des points chauds les plus importants en matière de lutte contre la faim en début 2020, a prévenu mardi le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM).

Des millions de personnes auront besoin d'une aide alimentaire au Zimbabwe, au Soudan du Sud, en République démocratique du Congo et dans la région du Sahel central dans les mois à venir, a précisé l'agence onusienne.

Mentor programme sees young mothers open up about issues that concern them
By Nadia Samie-Jacobs

Three times a month, 18-year-old Grace Mutungambera walks more than 14 kilometres from her home, to the nearest clinic. With her baby strapped to her back and in the extreme heat, the walk takes her about four hours, each way. She lives in the rural, tobacco growing region of Hurungwe, in Zimbabwe.

World Food Programme forecasts global hunger hotspots as a new decade dawns

L’Afrique subsaharienne sera l’un des points chauds les plus importants en matière de lutte contre la faim en début 2020, a prévenu mardi le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM).

Des millions de personnes auront besoin d'une aide alimentaire au Zimbabwe, au Soudan du Sud, en République démocratique du Congo et dans la région du Sahel central dans les mois à venir, a précisé l'agence onusienne.

New and improved ways to provide aid enabled us to help millions of people in need

January: Underlining the forgotten

Many humanitarian crises don’t make the news headlines.

In Zimbabwe, recurrent droughts, coupled with rising inflation, threaten nearly half the population’s ability to put food on the table

HARARE, ZIMBABWE, December 30, 2019 – Nearly seven million people across Zimbabwe are at risk of going hungry as a result of successive droughts and rising inflation. According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, Zimbabwe is at a “Phase 3” food crisis, meaning that acute malnutrition is widespread.

HARARE – Millions of Zimbabweans pushed into hunger by prolonged drought and economic crisis face an increasingly desperate situation unless adequate funding for a major relief operation materialises quickly, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

With nearly eight million people – half the population – now food insecure, WFP plans to double the number of people it assists - up to 4.1 million - but needs over US$200 million for its emergency response in the first half of 2020 alone.

Large scale-up of humanitarian assistance to improve food security through the peak of the lean season

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Erratic and below average rainfall in parts of the region affect ongoing planting activities

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HARARE – Last week, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Zimbabwe completed its last cash distribution of 2019, which supported some 19,000 vulnerable residents in Harare’s sub-urban district of Epworth.

Those deemed most food insecure have been receiving monthly cash transfers from WFP since June, as part of an urban pilot project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and the EU’s branch of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO).

15 climate disasters of 2019 that cost more than $1 billion

Famine threatens South Sudan, Yemen, and northeast Nigeria

Across 46 countries, 88 million people require emergency food assistance in 2020, 87% more than in 2015.

Highlights

• Early season rainfall has been erratic in southern and central parts of the region, despite a timely onset of the season. This has negatively impacted on crop germination in some areas.

• Favourable rainfall conducive to crop development was received in some northern parts of the region.

• Heavy rains and a cyclone caused flooding in parts of Tanzania and Madagascar respectively.

Introduction

School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) refers to acts or threats of sexual, physical, or psychological violence occurring in and around schools, perpetrated as a result of gender norms and stereotypes and enforced by unequal power dynamics (see figure 1).

Executive summary

 Southern Africa did not recover from the widespread drought persisting since 2018 and throughout 2019. Instead, with a suboptimal start of the ongoing rainy season, the situation further worsened over wide areas of South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho.

UK aid workers have helped millions of people around the world this year.

From:Department for International Development and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP

International Development Secretary Alok Sharma has hailed the UK’s ‘humanitarian heroes’ - the thousands of aid workers working overseas who’ve helped millions of people around the world in 2019.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. To learn more about markets in Southern Africa, consult the FEWS NET Regional Maize Market Fundamentals Summary Report.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.

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