Informes

Minimal food insecurity outcomes to continue through December KEY MESSAGES Minimal (IPC Phase 1) acute food insecurity outcomes are projected across the country through December, given the above-average harvest, seasonally declining staple food prices, and good market supply. Maize…

EL GENEINA LOCALITY The collapse of the Furlei water reservoir on Saturday led to the destruction of more than 250 homes in the Ardamata camp for the displaced in El Geneina locality, West Darfur. Speaking to Radio Dabanga,…

25 August 2014 - Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) continue to live in dire conditions at the UNMISS base in the Unity State capital Bentiu because of a persistent security threat outside, UN Humanitarian Coordinator…

JIMMA – Today the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) opened a third logistics base in western Ethiopia for cross-border delivery of vital food assistance into South Sudan, while calling for more funding to support urgent…

Highlights  Between14–21August,the Logistics Cluster facilitated the delivery of 131MT of relief items on behalf of 11different humanitarian organisations(Care, Goal, IMC, IOM, MSF-Swiss, NRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF, and WFP)to Akobo, Bentiu, Kiech Kon, Leer, Malakal,…

KEY EVENTS The number of nutrition hotspot priority one woredas increased by 64.5 per cent from 76 to 125 between April and August of this year. WFP will face critical funding shortfalls for its refugee operation from the…

The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 27th Extra-Ordinary Summit on the 25th August 2014 at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, under the Chairmanship of H.E. Hailemarriam Dessalegn, the Prime Minister…

By Kenneth Odiwuor NAIROBI, 25 August 2014 (IRIN) - The government of South Sudan signed an Action Plan with the UN in 2012 to end the use of child soldiers but there is evidence the ongoing conflict…

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) condemns the detention of a team of six Intergovermental Authority on Development (IGAD) ceasefire monitors and three aircrew in Buoth (35 km South West of Bentiu in Unity State)…

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 24, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Germany has contributed 750,000 euros to provide ongoing humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of refugees in Ethiopia, mostly from South Sudan. In a statement issued on Saturday, the…