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Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights unrest in Myanmar, Afghan returnees and cholera in DR Congo
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 continued violence in Nigeria and Ukraine
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 Boko Haram attacks and floods in Southern Africa
The weekly Global Overview aggregates information from a range of sources and provides the latest updates on and a ranking of current humanitarian crises.
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
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 IDPs in Iraq and suicide attacks in Kabul
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 Typhoon Hagupit in Philippines and Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone
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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Total displacement increases by 1.4 million in Eastern Africa
Of the total displaced population, 2,467,547 are refugees while 8,966,205 are internally displaced persons and people severely affected by conflict.
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More than 900,000 children malnourished in South Sudan
Agencies stress the need to urgently start the prepositioning of humanitarian aid now through until the end of the dry season (April-May 2015) and sustain aid until the end of the year.
Riverine areas along Juba, Somalia, likely to remain in crisis food security phase through March
River flooding in October and flash floods in November destroyed planted crops and infrastructure, and reduced labor demand.
Poor rains followed by floods likely to worsen food crisis, experts warn
After a poor rainy season, parts of southern Somalia are now being hit by severe bouts of floods, further aggravating the already alarming food security situation. FAO is urgently appealing for $49 million.
New map highlights effects of natural disasters in Myanmar between 2002-2012
Myanmar ranks first as the ‘most at risk’ country in Asia the Pacific according to the UN Risk Model. The country is vulnerable to a wide range of hazards, including floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis. The likelihood for medium to large-scale natural disasters to occur every...
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Rice prices uncertain after Southeast Asian floods - FAO
Rice prices uncertain after Southeast Asian floods International rice prices are uncertain in the wake of flooding that has devastated several nations in Southeast Asia, according to FAO. Despite the loss of a few million tonnes of rice in Thailand because of the floods, FAO has raised its forecast...
Myanmar: Worst flooding in more than 30 years hits Pegu; thousands displaced
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:12 Zwe Khant New Delhi (Mizzima) – Because of four days of incessant rain in Pegu, thousands of flood victims have been displaced, officials said. The rainfall, the worst in 30 years, has caused a high water level on the Pegu River of 940 cm, 30 cm above the danger...