While the COVID-19 crisis has shown the realities of how vulnerable the world can be, the climate crisis is and will continue to have much more significant impact, according to a new IFRC report.
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While the COVID-19 crisis has shown the realities of how vulnerable the world can be, the climate crisis is and will continue to have much more significant impact, according to a new IFRC report.
As countries face COVID-19, DRC's success in managing Ebola highlights the need for community engagement and awareness-raising campaigns, as well as institutional trust and public health investments.
An IRC survey found Ebola-hit communities are facing deteriorating mental health, reduced access to healthcare, increased violence against women and girls and major income losses.
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Cameroon, DR Congo and Burkina Faso top the Norwegian Refugee Council's annual list, which is based on three criteria: lack of political will, lack of media attention and lack of international aid.
The announcement came shortly after the Government confirmed a new outbreak of the virus in Mbandaka. More than 2,200 people have lost their lives in the DRC since the outbreak started in August 2018.
The new outbreak comes as a long, difficult and complex Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC is in its final phase, while the country also battles COVID-19 and the world’s largest measles outbreak.
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The world’s largest measles outbreak is still spreading across DRC. Chad’s measles outbreak has been raging for two years since May 2018, while CAR declared its measles outbreak in January 2020.
UNHCR is distributing money by mobile phone to 6,000 vulnerable families uprooted by conflict and already facing a deadly Ebola outbreak in DR Congo’s North Kivu province.
It is still unclear how the patient confirmed positive on 10 April contracted the virus: he was diagnosed after his death and had no known contacts with previous Ebola patients.
An estimated 3.3 million children in DRC have unmet vital health needs, while across the country, 9.1 million children (nearly one in five of the under-18 population) require humanitarian assistance.
The new case in Beni is the first since mid-February, sparking concern for humanitarian implications caused by the combination of COVID-19, Ebola and the persistent threat of conflict and displacement.
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The 2020-2021 Regional Refugee Response Plan for the DRC situation is covering the inter-agency response in the region, to provide life-saving humanitarian aid and protection to 912,069 Congolese.
With no more confirmed cases, a 42-day countdown to declaring the end of the world’s second-deadliest Ebola epidemic began on 2 March. All the aspects of the Ebola response remain in place.
Fighting between military actors and armed groups has spread from North Kivu to Ituri province. It comes on top of intercommunal violence that has forced more than 100,000 people to flee this year.
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With this licensing, the manufacturer can stockpile and distribute the vaccine to African countries at risk of Ebola outbreaks, circumventing clinical trials and research protocols.
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"The majority of crises ranked are partly a consequence of declining natural resources, increasing extreme weather events and global warming more broadly," said CARE
A team of social anthropologists was sent into the most recalcitrant communities to get to the bottom of their concerns and pave the way for other community engagement colleagues.
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The new funding will be used to address the humanitarian needs of the country’s most vulnerable people affected by Ebola and strengthen its local health system.
More than 800 vehicles, one plane, two helicopters, four trucks, 410 motorcycles and 37 ambulances are needed to move the supplies and team members.
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The countries on Watchlist 2020 have changed little, underscoring both the protracted nature of these crises and collective failure of the international community to resolve their root causes.