Jean Kaseya, Nebiyu Dereje, Raji Tajudeen, Alain Ngashi Ngongo, Nicaise Ndembi, Mosoka Papa Fallah Summary box Climate change has direct and indirect effects on the public health. Africa has been...
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Jean Kaseya, Nebiyu Dereje, Raji Tajudeen, Alain Ngashi Ngongo, Nicaise Ndembi, Mosoka Papa Fallah Summary box Climate change has direct and indirect effects on the public health. Africa has been...
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What should be the top priority for Africa in 2023? Aloysius Uche Ordu On Monday, January 30, the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) will launch its annual flagship report, Foresight Africa. ...
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Declines in Africa’s rich ecological biodiversity threaten millions of livelihoods, increased food insecurity, conflicts over land, and transmission of zoonotic diseases that can lead to more...
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Excerpt NATIONAL SOCIETY PROFILES Mauritius Red Cross Society Number of staff: 12 Number of volunteers: 40 Number of branches (main islands) 3 The Mauritius Red Cross Society was established in 1973...
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Executive summary Food and nutrition insecurity in the SADC region continues to be unacceptably high, requiring concerted efforts for the region to build resilience to address the multiple and...
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Introduction The challenges facing Arab countries today reflect decades-long problems, such as civil war, political violence, foreign military intervention, youth unemployment, gender inequality,...
Overview This WHO UNFCCC health and climate change country profile for Mauritius provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to...
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Achieving food security and improving nutrition are crucial to reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Not only they are essential to reach SDG2 – Zero Hunger, but they are also linked to...
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SADC release Synthesis Report on the State of Food and Nutrition Security in the Region Southern Africa suffers widespread food and nutrition insecurity. This year, in the ten SADC Member States that...
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Given the chronic food insecurity and malnutrition prevalent in the Southern African region, this paper analyses the role of food security and nutrition in social protection programming and in...
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face particularly acute health risks as a result of the climate crisis. Warming temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, rising sea levels and extreme...
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Executive summary COVID-19 and the lockdown continue to have a disastrous impact on food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. The lockdown delayed NVAC assessments in several Member States,...
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The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. Good afternoon. Can you all hear me? Wave if you can. Excellent. My...
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Health Ministers and Environment Ministers, Experts, Officials and other key stakeholders from Small Island Development States (SIDS) of Africa and South East Asian regions, namely Cabo Verde,...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Abnormal rainfall patterns during 2014/2015 have contributed to a spike in food insecurity, which is currently affecting at least 27.4 m people regionally (and this excludes Angola,...
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OVERVIEW Southern Africa faces numerous natural hazard events each year, including drought, floods, and cyclones, the effects of which can create or heighten humanitarian crises, such as acute food...
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(Pretoria, 08 November 2013): A groundbreaking study into the threats likely to confront southern African communities over the next decade has been released. Titled Humanitarian Trends in Southern...