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Headlines Afghanistan earthquake: Polio network supporting earthquake response in Afghanistan. See 'Afghanistan' section below for more. Global leaders at the G7 and Commonwealth leaders meetings...

Contents 301 Index of countries/areas 301 Index, Volume 97, 2022, Nos. 1–26 303 Genetic characterization of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 viruses during initial use phase under emergency use...

Key Messages The ongoing harvest is improving household food access across most of the region, although some areas continue to face food deficits. While production has generally been favorable in...

Overview As of the end of April 2022, Southern Africa hosts around 7.8 million persons of concern (PoCs) to UNHCR. This includes 1.1 million refugees and asylum-seekers, 6.7 million internally...

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The African Risk Capacity Group and the African Development Bank make a $14.2 million drought recovery insurance payout to the Government of Malawi JOHANNESBURG 29 June 2022 -- In a ceremony presided...

This week, during the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Germany, President Joe Biden pledged $2.76 billion in additional U.S. government resources to protect the world’s most vulnerable populations from the...

The above total reflects the refugee population covered by the Burundi Regional Refugee Response Plan (2021) and includes Burundian refugees who fled since April 2015, as well as some 37,000...

Cinq pays bénéficieront de projets axés sur la biodiversité et la sécurité de l’approvisionnement en eau. 22/06/2022 Rome – L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO)...

Cinco países contarán con proyectos centrados en la biodiversidad y la seguridad hídrica 22/06/2022 Roma – La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) ha...

Five countries will benefit from projects focusing on biodiversity and water security 22/06/2022 Rome– The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the decision of...

The heavy rains and floods experienced over the 2022 rainy season severely impacted agricultural activities particularly in the Southern Region. This followed a very late start to the rainy season...

Group issues recommendations to tackle both WPV1 outbreak in south-east Africa and variants across sub-Saharan Africa As south-east Africa continues to intensify efforts to stop a wild poliovirus...

Insurance from WFP helps families to buy food, meet their immediate needs and rebuild their lives 27 June 2022, Michael Goode In 2021, extreme weather events and natural hazards cost the world US$343...

The year 2021 was a period of continued global insecurity fuelled by Covid-19. We are now in our third year of the pandemic and learning to live with Covid-19 still appears to be far off on the...

Over 500 Ethiopian migrants are stranded in Malawi and would like to return to their communities of origin, according to a verification exercise conducted by the Ethiopian authorities with support...

The thirty-second meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO Director-General on 15...

A global food crisis fuelled by conflict, climate shocks and the COVID-19 pandemic is growing because of the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine driving rising prices of food, fuel and fertilizer...

Key Highlights The Survival Minimum Expenditure Baskets (SMEBs) increased to record highs across all regions of the country, with expenditure for urban-based households in particular, sharply rising...

Headlines The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples in London, United Kingdom (UK), which were...