In addition to dealing with past disasters and conflict, humanitarians are mounting a new response to El Niño-driven drought. The plan targets 15.5 million people, including 10.4 million with food needs.
Ethiopia + 4 more
Ethiopia + 4 more
In addition to dealing with past disasters and conflict, humanitarians are mounting a new response to El Niño-driven drought. The plan targets 15.5 million people, including 10.4 million with food needs.
Somalia + 6 more
Nearly three million people have been affected, with more than 1.2 million forced to leave their homes. Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya are bearing the brunt of this crisis, which follows severe drought.
Humanitarian partners, authorities and local communities have stepped up assistance to affected people, reaching at least 743,000 people across Somalia with some form of aid.
Eighty-four districts have an average severe acute malnutrition rate of 12 percent, impacting over 3.5 million children. Among them, more than 1.45 million children suffer from severe wasting.
The poverty rate could increase by 4.5-7.0 percentage points, pushing between 9.9 and 15.4 million people into poverty and intensifying the depth and severity of poverty for already poor households.
The response is being led by government, which has expanded a national social protection scheme developed with WFP’s support to deliver cash assistance to an additional 4.5 million flood-hit people.
Torrential floods have left almost a thousand dead, displaced over 3.1 million people, and damaged more than half a million homes in multiple districts across the country.
The Humanitarian Response Plan prioritizes life-saving multi-sectoral assistance to the most vulnerable people, including response readiness for recurring flooding, conflict, and disease outbreaks.
The HRP aims to assist four million people in the most dire need and to reduce the loss of life for 3.1 million of the most severely vulnerable people, including one million children under five.
During the height of the storm, some 23,000 people sought shelter in evacuation centers. About 93,000 people (21,000 households) live in the most affected areas of the cyclone.
After cyclones Idai and Kenneth tore across Mozambique in March and April last year, AI and drones were officially used for the first time in a humanitarian emergency by WFP.
DR Congo + 2 more
The new funding will be used to address the humanitarian needs of the country’s most vulnerable people affected by Ebola and strengthen its local health system.
Between 6 to 8 December 2019, a tropical cyclone caused flash floods and storms in Puntland. The most affected households need urgent humanitarian assistance.
The agency will need more funds to more than double the number of people it is helping by January to 4.1 million with life-saving rations and a protective nutrition ration for under-fives.
The storms have damaged key infrastructure, including houses, health facilities and schools, displacing an unconfirmed number of people and disrupting basic services in 32 counties.
Thousands more families are at risk of being displaced as heavy rains continue to pummel many parts of Somalia, with bad weather forecast to last throughout November, Islamic Relief warns.
WFP deployed a Mi-8 helicopter to deliver life-saving assistance to families in parts of Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and Tana River counties, in response to a formal request by the Government.
Since mid-May, Yemen has experienced heavy rainfall in different parts of the country, causing widespread floods in at least twelve governates, affecting IDPs and host communities.
Close to 2.2 million people need urgent assistance following the cyclones and floods, on top of 815,000 people already in need as a result of the drought.
At least 715,378 hectares of agricultural land have been damaged. Food security is likely to deteriorate over the coming months, once whatever small quantities of maize harvested have been finished.