Since 15 January, the UN Department of Safety and Security has restricted all road missions in the four southern departments. UN Humanitarian Air Service flights have also been temporally suspended.
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Since 15 January, the UN Department of Safety and Security has restricted all road missions in the four southern departments. UN Humanitarian Air Service flights have also been temporally suspended.
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During a year marked by intense storms and conflict, 40.5 million new displacements were triggered across the world by disasters and violence, the highest annual figure recorded in a decade.
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About 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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While floods are the most common disaster in the region, causing more than $1 billion in total damages since 2000, drought is the disaster that affects the highest number of people.
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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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EM-DAT preliminary data shows that during this year, 301 country-level natural disasters in 102 countries caused more than 7,000 deaths and US$97 billion of economic damages.
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According to the IDMC, just 10 countries accounted for more than two-thirds of the total. In addition, there were 8.6 million new cases during 2015.
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Prevention measures including upgrading early warning systems, revising building codes, and more investment in flood defences are critical to protect more people against disaster impacts.
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The World Meteorological Organization this week singled out “considerable concern” about the impact of El Niño on the Amazon basin in the context of long-term climate change.
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Local actors are often the most effective in conducting humanitarian operations. The 2015 World Disasters Report examines the challenges they face in scaling-up and sustaining their humanitarian response.
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The number of people affected by floods has increased to almost 93,000 in Bolivia and almost 84,000 in Peru.
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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.
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Most of the disasters were a result of regular rainy seasons in South America, cold weather in Central America and drought in North America. Bolivia and Peru were hit hardest.