This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago. The UN and partner organizations aim to assist 183 million people across 63 countries, which will require $41 billion.
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This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago. The UN and partner organizations aim to assist 183 million people across 63 countries, which will require $41 billion.
More than 600,000 people have been affected by flooding so far this year, with 50,000 people displaced in September alone. Hundreds of thousands more are at risk from diseases and food insecurity.
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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020, says coalition of UN, EU, NGOs and government agencies.
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A new report from IRC shows Yemen is the country most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe in 2021, for the third year in a row, followed by Afghanistan, Syria, DR Congo and Ethiopia.
The International Committee of the Red Cross fears that those living in remote areas are at grave risk of malnutrition and disease, as some areas are impossible to reach due to flooding.
With escalating inter-communal conflict and recent economic shocks associated with COVID-19, emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes are widespread at the July/August peak of the lean season.
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There is a real concern about the growing risk of famine, potentially even several famines at once. Before the pandemic hit, 27 million people were in “emergency” levels of acute food insecurity.
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A new report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the reason is largely due to one development: 1.3 million Ethiopians displaced by communal violence in 2019 went home.
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The countries on Watchlist 2020 have changed little, underscoring both the protracted nature of these crises and collective failure of the international community to resolve their root causes.
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The 2020 Global Hotspots Report highlights escalating hunger needs in sub-Saharan Africa with grave challenges facing Zimbabwe, South Sudan, DR Congo and the Central Sahel region.
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Consecutive droughts and floods have created conditions conducive to the spread of communicable diseases, which place acutely malnourished children at an even higher risk of death.
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This represents the highest figure in decades. The United Nations and partner organizations will require $28.8 billion to assist the most vulnerable people.
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The climate crisis contributes to at least 33 million people in the region being at emergency levels of food insecurity or worse this year. More than 16 million are believed to be children.
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Oxfam calls for urgent action as millions displaced, with women, girls hit hardest. Climate crises are compounded by conflicts, poverty and inequality, with $700m average climate-related losses.
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Conflicts are the primary cause of high levels of food insecurity, while adverse weather conditions - particularly rainfall shortages in Africa - acutely affect food availability and access for millions.
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A global report on food crises finds that about 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2018, compared with 124 million in 2017.
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The UN and its partners aim to assist 93.6 million of the most vulnerable with food, shelter, health care, emergency education, protection and other basic assistance, according to the GHO.
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Civil conflicts and displacement remain the key drivers of food insecurity in East Africa and the Near East, whereas dry-weather conditions reduced cereal outputs in Southern Africa, says FAO.
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Worldwide, there were about 5.2 million new internal displacements associated with conflict and violence in the first half of 2018. More than 1.7 million of these occurred in Ethiopia and Somalia.
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From the Central African Republic to South Sudan, and from Syria to Afghanistan, attacks on children in conflict have continued unabated during the first four months of the year.