More than 1,550 houses have been damaged or destroyed across Tonga's islands. A one-month State of Emergency has been declared for the whole country until 12 March.
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More than 1,550 houses have been damaged or destroyed across Tonga's islands. A one-month State of Emergency has been declared for the whole country until 12 March.
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Tropical Cyclone Gita passed Samoa on 10 February with damage and localized flooding reported. More than 80,000 people in Tonga are currently expected to be impacted by the cyclone.
With the continued volcanic activity, the local government is now planning for three-month evacuation. Nearly 90 per cent of evacuees are seeking shelter in 88 evacuation centres, mostly schools.
The Philippines is bracing for a possible three-month-long emergency in areas around an erupting volcano, which has already displaced more than 81,000 and led to overcrowded temporary shelters.
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The volcano spewed a 10km-high ash column on 22 January, with authorities warning of an imminent hazardous eruption, possibly within days. There was moderate to heavy ash fall.
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The weekly Global Overview aggregates information from a range of sources and provides the latest updates on and a ranking of current humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
In early February, a group of Arab donors visited the food-insecure regions of Brakna and Gorgol, a trip organized by UNOCHA. Gogol and Brakna are severely food insecure.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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Viet Nam has been affected by both Cyclone Podul and Typhoon Haiyan over the past ten days. At least 41 people have been killed in rains triggered by Podul, adding to the 14 people killed during Haiyan.
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The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.
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Snapshot 08 – 15 October In Syria, heavy fighting is ongoing in Rural Damascus, Dar’a, Aleppo, Idleb and Homs, with government forces making gains in Rural Damascus while the opposition has won ground in Dar’a. Despite the call of al-Qaeda’s leader for opposition fighters to unite,...
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As of 8 October, almost 3 million people living across 30 of Thailand’s 77 provinces were affected by floods caused by heavier than usual monsoon rains.
Weeks of heavy rains that began in mid-August have left much of Mauritania's capital city and six of the surrounding regions under water. In the north, herders in flooded areas lost whole herds - and thus their entire livelihoods