Updates (Headlines)

As the funding shortfall coincides, regrettably, with the Holy Month of Ramadan, WFP is urgently seeking $10 million to continue providing food assistance to vulnerable IDPs until June 2023.

Over a million children in Burkina Faso are affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of 40 per cent since the end of the last school year.

At least five people have been killed and at least five others are missing, with the provinces of Sanliurfa and Adiyaman badly hit. Footage shows streets in Sanliurfa turned into fast-flowing rivers.

The floods damaged most of the water systems in affected areas, compelling people - including 2.5 million children - to solely rely on contaminated water from ponds and wells.

The State of School Feeding Worldwide 2022 identifies the key principles that underpin successful school feeding programmes as governments bolster their education systems for the future.

As the IPCC reports that the world nears the 1.5-degree limit, the IRC warns that the 20 countries on its watchlist emit just a fifth of the global CO2 per capita, while bearing the most cost.

These grants will help countries, with support from GAFSP’s implementing partners, design and implement solutions in line with their current agriculture and food security strategies.

Total deaths are projected at up to 34,200 in the first half of 2023, suggesting that, although famine has been averted for now, the crisis is far from over and is already more severe than in 2017-18.

Flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy, compounded by interruption of WASH services, is driving a rapid acceleration in cholera cases, which have almost quadrupled – to almost 10,700 – since early February.

Children in 10 African countries are at the highest risk from a convergence of three threats: inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); related diseases; and climate hazards.

Nearly 363,000 people are displaced and sheltering in over 500 camps across flood-affected areas in the southern regions while the devastating toll of the floods and mudslides continues to rise.

The funding will specifically support three key areas - food security, water and sanitation hygiene, and emergency shelter - targeted at the most vulnerable and most affected populations in Vanuatu.

According to the RDNA, physical damage caused by the earthquake is estimated at $3.7 billion, while losses are estimated at $1.5 billion, bringing the total estimated impact to $5.2 billion.

With the humanitarian situation in Haiti deteriorating by the day, United Nations and its partners issued an urgent call for increased access and resources to reach people in desperate need.

The human and economic impact of disasters was relatively higher in Africa, which accounted for 16.4 per cent of the share of deaths compared to 3.8 per cent in the previous two decades.

2022 was marked by three distinct surges of violence: April - May, in southern Unity State; July - September, in Warrap State; and August - December, in the Greater Upper Nile region.

In brutal new lows, children are being directly targeted by non-state armed groups who operate across vast swathes of Mali and Burkina Faso, and increasingly in Niger.

South Sudan's refugee crisis remains the largest in Africa, with 2.3 million people living as refugees in neighbouring countries and an additional 2.2 million people internally displaced.