Floods causing widespread damage and hunger. The situation is expected to worsen in December as more rain is forecast. Action Against Hunger is calling for increased funding to address the crisis.
Ethiopia + 2 more
Ethiopia + 2 more
Floods causing widespread damage and hunger. The situation is expected to worsen in December as more rain is forecast. Action Against Hunger is calling for increased funding to address the crisis.
Ethiopia + 3 more
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flooding.
Ethiopia + 2 more
Three years of drought have left over 1.9 million children at risk of dying from severe malnutrition as vulnerable communities have lost cattle, crops, and entire livelihoods.
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The number of movements in which people fled in search of safety and shelter - sometimes more than once - was also unprecedented in 2022, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
Uganda + 5 more
With only a third of funding needs met for last year's appeal, the major countries of asylum in the region - DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda - were among UNHCR's most under-funded operations.
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The newly announced record $250 million allocation from CERF will help people in 19 countries including eight countries that are home to more than 20 million people just one step away from famine.
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A new report by Christian Aid shows that floods, cyclones and drought killed and displaced millions of people across the globe in places which have done little to cause the climate crisis.
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Report highlights how rich countries have repeatedly stalled efforts to provide dedicated finance to developing countries bearing the costs of a climate crisis they did little to cause.
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Climate change is deepening hunger in 10 of the world's worst climate hotspots: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
Ethiopia + 8 more
"Our models show ... we are entering the 5th consecutive failed rainy season in the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, we are on the brink of an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe."
Ethiopia + 6 more
The latest IGAD Regional Focus on Food Crises report sounds the alarm on escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.
Somalia + 2 more
The IRC is calling for urgent action in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, with specific concern for intensifying famine in Somalia that has been dangerously neglected by the international community.
World + 4 more
Longstanding political failure to address how we feed all the people in the world has made our food system susceptible to fragility and failure well before the war in Ukraine.
World + 12 more
The amount of money needed for UN humanitarian appeals involving extreme weather events is now eight times higher than 20 years ago — and donors are failing to keep up, reveals a new Oxfam brief.
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According to a new report from the UNCCD, more than 1.4 billion people were affected by drought from 2000 to 2019. This makes drought the disaster affecting the second-highest number of people.
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The growth in refugee numbers to almost 5 million today has not been matched by a growth in resources, forcing WFP to make difficult decisions about who receives food assistance and who goes without.
Ethiopia + 2 more
The IRC has committed $2.5 million to providing critical services to people in Ethiopia alone living through this severe drought, but much more needs to be done in order to meet the scale of need.
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These countries all had parts of populations identified or projected to experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention, according to FAO and WFP.
World + 26 more
A new report by Christian Aid shows that floods, cyclones and drought killed and displaced millions across the globe in places which have done little to cause climate change.
Ethiopia + 3 more
Multiple seasons of drought plus ongoing conflict in parts of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan will likely result in extreme hunger in the coming months, similar to the drought of 2016.