The report finds worryingly low food consumption levels and limited dietary diversity, with young children and pregnant and breastfeeding women at most risk.
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights fighting and violence in Iraq, South Sudan and Nigeria
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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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights displacement in Philippines and avalanches in Afghanistan
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights displacement in Myanmar, cholera in Kenya, Nigeria
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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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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights escalating violence in Nigeria, Sudan and Ukraine
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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights violence in Nigeria and crisis in CAR
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Donors contribute record US$477 million to UN Central Emergency Response Fund
In 2013, CERF enabled the UN and NGOs to respond to crises in 45 countries, including high-level emergencies in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria.
Protecting drinking water from drought and sea level rise
Following last year's drought in the Marshall Islands, existing reservoir and catchment systems were updated and can now last 3-4 months in an emergency, up from 3-4 weeks.
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Latest regional snapshot highlights dengue fever in Fiji, drought in Sri Lanka and Marshall Islands
In Vanuatu, 11 fatalities have been confirmed after flash floods and landslides. In Sri Lanka, drought affecting 247,000 families prompts preparations for a needs assessment.
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Challenges and opportunities in Southern Africa over next decade
The study found that, contrary to perceptions that southern Africa has a homogeneous and ‘low-risk’ profile, the region is exposed to a range of environmental and social pressures.
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Global emergency overview highlights Syria crisis and the spread of violence in Nigeria and Bangladesh
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Global emergency overview highlights Syria crisis, flooding in S Sudan and Cholera outbreak in Haiti
There have been 2,936 new cases of cholera and 83 deaths in Haiti in one week, already more than half the cases reported during September.
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Global emergency overview highlights tropical cyclone Phailin in India, earthquake in Philippines
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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Latest Global emergency overview highlights floods in Thailand, severe food insecurity and malnutrition in Cameroon
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.
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Global emergency overview highlights flooding in Sudan and Typhoon Utor
Typhoon Utor, locally known as Labuyo, struck the Philippines in the mountainous north of Luzon. While information to date remains limited, some 22 people are reportedly missing and an estimated 935 are affected.
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Global emergency overview highlights flooding in DPR Korea and food insecurity in Tajikistan
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.
Drought operation enters second phase
The first rains have finally arrived but food is in short supply on the hardest-hit outer islands. Phase two of the sea bridge will deliver a further 100 metric tons of food to the 13 affected atolls.