Kenya: Cholera Outbreak - Feb 2015 Updates (Maps / Infographics)

OVERVIEW The number of severely food insecure people in the Greater Horn of Africa decreased from 22.4 million people in August to 20.8 million in October, primarily due to the green harvest in South...

Context Analysis Somalia 4.6 million people in need and 954,000 children under-5 that are or could be acutely malnourished in the next year. The current number of IDPs in Somalia has increased to 2.6...

OVERVIEW The number of severely food insecure people across the Greater Horn of Africa has fallen to 22.4 million due to improvements in Kenya and Somalia. In Kenya, severe food insecurity has...

16.3 million people in need of humanitarian services 8.2 million children in need of humanitarian services 667,948 children under-five in need of SAM treatment 14.8 million people are in need of...

Overview There are now 9.53 million people internally displaced across the Greater Horn of Africa, including due to a spike in displacement in Ethiopia, where inter-communal violence around Gedeo...

Situation updates Ethiopia Flooding in the Somali region has affected 165,000 people and displaced 98,000 people. Homes have been destroyed, farmland submerged, crops destroyed, livestock killed and...

Overview In April and early May 2018, large-scale floods affected more than 1 million people across the Greater Horn of Africa, impacting more than 700,000 people in Somalia, over 311,000 in Kenya,...

16.3 million people in need of humanitarian services 8.2 million children in need of humanitarian services 667,948 children under-five in need of SAM treatment 14.8 million people are in need of...

Overview Climatic shocks, conflict, insecurity and political instability continue to drive humanitarian need in the Horn of Africa. While food insecurity increased by nearly 24 per cent in 2017, it...

17.8 million people in need of humanitarian services 8.3 million children in need of humanitarian services 656,614 children under-five in need of SAM treatment 14.9 million people are in need of...

Please refer to the attached Infographic.

In 2017, 20 counties have been affected by cholera, a total of 3,518 cases with 66 deaths (CFR 1.9%). Seven counties have active outbreaks; Nairobi ,Kajiado, Garissa and Embu, Kirinyaga, Muranga and...

The food security and nutrition situation in Kenya has deteriorated significantly since March 2017, due to late onset and below-average March-May long rains, high staple food prices and the Fall Army...

Kenya: Challenges More sub-optimal coordination in responding to outbreaks Limited resources such as water treatment chemicals Limited laboratory capacity in some Counties for Cholera confirmation...

Somalia Country Priorities -Increasing the number of CTCs, CTUs and ORP, in affected areas -Increasing access to adequate amounts of safe water and appropriate sanitation -Conducting cholera...

6 of the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have over 20% of their population using an unimproved water source and they include; Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and...

3 of the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have over 50% of their population using unimproved sanitation facilities and they include; Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda. Cumulatively, Tanzania...

6 of the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have over 20% of their population using an unimproved water source and they include; Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and...

3 of the 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa have over 50% of their population using unimproved sanitation facilities and they include; Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda. Cumulatively, Tanzania...

Since December 2014 to date, Kenya has experienced cholera outbreaks across 31 Counties with 17,942 total number of cases reported and 269 deaths giving a case fatality rate of 1.5%. In 2017, 18...