Angola: Drought - 2024-2026 Updates

Key Messages As the lean season ends in March, consumption of green crops and the seasonal increase in milk supply have eased acute food insecurity. Lingering effects of drought from previous years...

Global Overview: La Niña is present. Flooding risks are high in areas of Eastern Africa, Yemen, Central America, Hispaniola, and Northern South America, while drought persists in western Angola and...

Click here to access the interactive Activations in Southern Africa: July 2023 - December 2025 Southern Africa AA Activation Dashboard – Six Key Messages 1. The evidence is clear, now it's time to...

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By the end of 2025, the Southern Africa region continued to face overlapping and intensifying humanitarian crises, leaving millions of people in need of assistance, including 1.6 million in...

In December, as part of the Government-led drought response, WFP provided specialized nutritious foods to more than 3,700 children under the age of five and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls...

Highlights The Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) continued to experience overlapping and intensifying humanitarian crises. The escalation of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...

HIGHLIGHTS Nearly 30 million children1 in Eastern and Southern Africa face life-threatening risks from conflict-driven displacement, escalating malnutrition, recurrent cholera and measles outbreaks...

19 November 2025 The river has stopped flowing in Giraul, a village in Angola’s southern province of Namibe. In a desperate attempt to collect water for their families amid prolonged drought, women...

Much of Southern Africa remained gripped by a worsening humanitarian crisis in the third quarter of the year, driven by climatic shocks, disease outbreaks, economic pressures, hostilities and fragile...

In Numbers* 2.2 million people in need of assistance due to the El Niñoinduced drought USD 1.4 million six-month net funding requirements - (October 2025 – March 2026), representing 34 percent of the...

Operational Updates Drought Response: WFP and its Cooperating Partner, World Vision Angola, in coordination with provincial and municipal authorities, provided nutrition assistance to approximately...

In Numbers 2.2 million people in need of assistance due to the El Niño-induced drought 110.5 mt of food assistance provided in July USD 1.5 million six-month net funding requirements, (August 2025 –...

As of July 2025, more than 282 million people, more than one in five, are affected, with entire regions pushed to the brink by climate shocks, economic instability, and conflict.

Southern Africa continues to grapple with the lingering impacts of the 2024 El Niño-induced drought—the worst in a century—which devastated harvests and livelihoods. The humanitarian situation was...

In Numbers* 2.2 million people in need of assistance due to the El Niño-induced drought 97.3 mt of specialized nutritious foods and food assistance (in-kind and through commodity vouchers) provided...

This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. This week’s articles cover: Cholera in Ethiopia Impact of Sudan crisis on Central African Republic...

**Executive Summary** The Africa Hunger Crisis Emergency Appeal, launched on 6 October 2022, responded to an unprecedented food insecurity emergency across sub-Saharan Africa. Affecting over 157...

In Numbers* 2.2 million people in need of assistance due to the El Niño-induced drought 5.6 mt of specialized nutritious foods distributed in May USD 1.7 million six-month (June – November 2025) net...

Overview This Weekly Bulletin focuses on public health emergencies occurring in the WHO African Region. This week’s articles cover: Mpox in Malawi Visceral leishmaniasis in Kenya Humanitarian Crisis...