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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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This means one in 33 people worldwide needs help — a significant increase from the one in 45 people a year ago. The UN and partner organizations will require $35 billion to reach 160 million people.
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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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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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An estimated 45.7 million people are living in internal displacement because of conflict and violence in 61 countries, the majority in Syria, Colombia, DRC, Yemen and Afghanistan.
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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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El Informe anual sobre ayuda humanitaria del IECAH y MSF destaca que la ayuda humanitaria internacional creció apenas un 1% en 2018, muy por debajo de la media de los cuatro años anteriores, situada en torno al 7,5%.
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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.
On 14 May, Antioquia’s state governor declared the situation a “public calamity”, predicting that the bursting of Ituango hydroelectric dam could affect up to 133,000 people.
En los últimos días, el desborde de los ríos Sinú y San Jorge ha perjudicado a 15 mil personas, aumentando a 43 mil el número total de afectados desde finales de junio.
Las restricciones a la movilidad o limitaciones al acceso a bienes y servicios básicos causadas por la violencia armada ven un incremento del 65% al comparar con el mismo período en 2015.
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The most recent projections suggest that approximately half of the global poor now live in states characterized by conflict and violence, according to a FAO and WFP report.
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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.