Following unseasonably heavy pre-monsoon rains, Pakistan continues to be adversely affected by severe weather events. The Government has announced compensation payments.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights humanitarian crises in Yemen, South Sudan and Ukraine
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights humanitarian crises in Papua New Guinea, Guatemala and Central African Republic
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights humanitarian crises in Haiti, Chad and South Sudan
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Burkina Faso: High food insecurity in affected regions aggravates impact of floods
Nearly 25,000 people have been affected by floods and heavy winds, and some attempts to disrupt assessment teams’ work in affected areas have been reported in a context of political instability.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights humanitarian crises in Yemen, Iraq and Niger
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights floods in Burkina Faso, India and Myanmar
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Burkina Faso calls for aid as floods set to worsen
Nearly 20,000 people have been affected this week by heavy rains and flooding in and around Ouagadougou. More than 3,700 are now homeless, their houses reduced to piles of mud and debris.
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Expected sharp fall in southern African maize production raises food security concerns
The early production forecast for maize - a staple food throughout the subregion - is about 21.1 million tonnes in 2015, 15 percent lower than the average for the last five years, FAO says.
Somalia's 1.1 million IDPs need support for local solutions - IDMC
A new report calls on humanitarian, development, peace-building and human rights actors – from the government, diaspora, civil society, the private sector and the international community – to work in concert to achieve sustainable durable solutions.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights unrest in Myanmar, Afghan returnees and cholera in DR Congo
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights continued violence in Nigeria and Ukraine
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights Boko Haram attacks and floods in Southern Africa
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Food security in Somalia to remain stable through June despite deterioration in pastoral areas
More than one million people will likely remain in crisis and emergency phases. The most food insecure people will be in Hiraan, Middle Juba, and Jowhar District in Middle Shabelle.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights violence in Nigeria and crisis in CAR
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Food security alert for Southern Africa
Rainfall performance has been poor across much of the region for the first half of the 2014/15 agriculture season and could have an adverse impact on household food security.
ACT Alliance Appeal to assist agricultural dry spell in Malawi
Maize harvests were 50 - 75% below average during agricultural season in some regions. Food insecurity affects 640,009 people, requiring 15,830 MT of maize equivalent to address shortage.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights IDPs in Iraq and suicide attacks in Kabul
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FAO warns on food security in West, Central Africa next year
FAO estimates that globally 39 countries, including 29 countries in Africa, need external assistance for food due to conflict, crop failures and localized high food prices.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights Typhoon Hagupit in Philippines and Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone
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