Inter-Agency Working Group East and Central Africa (IAWG East and Central Africa) Updates

Nairobi, 29 October 2025 - Humanitarian and civilian protection organisations are sounding the alarm over credible reports of massacres unfolding in and around El Fasher, North Darfur, where...

Introduction East Africa has long hosted major refugee populations, owing both to the presence of some of the world's most severe and protracted crises - whether in the region or at its borders - and...

The unraveling of the world’s largest humanitarian disaster from the Sahel to the Red Sea Two years into Sudan’s brutal war, the humanitarian catastrophe has engulfed the entire country, spilled over...

11 February 2025. As African Leaders meet in Addis Ababa for the African Union (AU) Summit this week, all efforts should be deployed to address the long lasting and deteriorating crisis in eastern...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nairobi, 05 July 2024 – In the latest episode of a resurgence in conflict and violence in eastern DR Congo, hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced as...

Nairobi, 16 April 2024 - The outcomes of the Pledging Conference for Ethiopia, held on 16 April 2024 in Geneva are wholly inadequate and fail to address the magnitude of the current crisis. A total...

Nairobi, April 9, 2024 – One year from the outbreak of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), representatives of humanitarian organisations working in...

At least one million people, the majority of them women and children, need urgent humanitarian assistance following recent inter-communal conflict in Ethiopia.

Foreword The East and Horn of Africa are among the most affected regions worldwide by extreme climatic events such as floods, landslides, drought leading to massive damages on the lives and...

Humanitarian agencies call for action as more than 15 million people in Somalia, south-eastern Ethiopia, and northern and eastern Kenya are facing food and water shortages.

The Horn of Africa is experiencing a devastating drought, which has left more than 15 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing food and water shortages and in need of urgent humanitarian...

The Inter-Agency Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Horn, East and Central Africa issues this call for action to respond to the urgent needs of over 15 million people experiencing a...