Reports

Each week, the World Health Organization Health Action in Crises in Geneva produces information highlights on critical health-related activities in countries where there are humanitarian crises. Drawing on the various WHO programmes, contributions cover activities from field and country offices…

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since June 2009, several West African countries have been affected by unrelenting rains causing the loss of human lives, and massive destruction of infrastructure including dwellings and harvests. Some 600,000 people have been affected…

This report was issued by the OCHA-ROWA. It covers the period 7-8 September 2009. The next report is expected on 9 September 2009. I. HIGHLIGHTS / KEY PRIORITIES - US $2.3 million have been collected so far since the start of…

GLIDE No. FL-2009-000172-BFA This preliminary Emergency Appeal seeks CHF 2,719,053 (USD2.6m or EUR 1.7m) in cash, kind, or services to support the Burkinabe Red Cross Society (BRCS) to assist some 40,000 beneficiaries who are considered to be the most vulnerable…

This report was issued by OCHA-Regional Office for West Africa. It covers the period 6-7 September 2009. HIGHLIGHTS / KEY PRIORITIES - 8 people have died and 150,000 others have been affected by flooding in the capital Ouagadougou; 50% of…

La Commission européenne consacre 53,475 millions d'euros supplémentaires, au moyen d'une série de décisions de financement, au renforcement de l'aide humanitaire en faveur des populations vulnérables de Somalie, d'Éthiopie, du Kenya, d'Ouganda, du Tchad, du Burkina Faso, du Niger, du…

IP/09/1280 Brussels, 8 September 2009 - The European Commission has earmarked a further €53.475 million, through a series of financing decisions, for expanded humanitarian aid to vulnerable people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Mauritania. The…

OUAGADOUGOU, 7 September 2009 (IRIN) - Recent floods have shut down Burkina Faso's main hospital, interrupting dialysis treatments, preventing HIV diagnoses and overloading health centres ill-equipped to take on surgical cases, according to the Health Ministry. To date, there have been…

This report was issued by OCHA-Regional Office for West Africa. It covers the period 5-6 September. HIGHLIGHTS / KEY PRIORITIES - 8 people have died and 150,000 others have been affected by flooding in the capital Ouagadougou; 50%…

GLIDE n=B0 FL-2009-000170-MRT; FL-2009-000172-BFA; FL-2009-000174-NER; FL-2009-000164-SEN; FL-2009-000176-MLI; FL-2009-000177-GMB The International Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is available for Red Cross and Red Crescent response to emergencies.…