Eastern Africa Humanitarian Bulletin, Issue 36 | November 2014

HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 11 million people are living as refugees or IDPs in the eastern Africa region.

• Upsurge in fighting and displacement in the Kivus and Katanga region.

• ICPAC predicts more flooding in December 2014.

• Chronic crisis with pockets of acute to emergency food and nutrition insecurity in region.

• Internal displacement dramatic increase mainly in South Sudan and Sudan.

• Scale up in response needs substantial new aid flows to be adequate.

• Two more massacres in Mandera County, Kenya, 60 people killed.

• World Humanitarian Summit consultations in Pretoria.

• IGAD launches its Resilience Analysis Unit (RAU) in Nairobi.

• HDX, a humanitarian information exchange platform also launched in Nairobi.

FIGURES

Regional displacement as of September 2014

Number of IDPs 8.9 million Number of refugees 2.4 million