Informes

Highlights From 31 July to 07 August,the Logistics Cluster facilitated the delivery of 117MTof relief items on behalf of 8different humanitarian organisations(ACF, Care, Concern, FAO, IOM, Medair, UNICEF, and World Relief)to Akobo, Bentiu, Koch, Malakal, and New…

GENEVA (8 August 2014) – United Nations human rights expert Bahame Tom Nyanduga urged the international community to act now to avert a looming humanitarian disaster in Somalia. The new Independent Expert on the situation…

WFP and partners have been working flat-out for months to try to prevent a hunger catastrophe in South Sudan, overcoming enormous obstacles to bring food and other assistance to people in desperate need who have been…

Highlights ● At least six South Sudanese aid workers were killed in Maban County, Upper Nile State, causing aid agencies to suspend essential activities such as food distributions and evacuating some staff. ● Continued rains in Bentiu worsened…

ADDIS ABABA, 8 August 2014 (IRIN) - After decades battling high maternal death rates - at least a third of which were due to botched abortions - Ethiopia took a stand: it prioritized newborn and maternal…

Overview After clashes broke out in Juba in mid-December 2013, between competing factions within the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army, the situation quickly degenerated into a full-scale conflict. The fighting spread to Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states,…

Over a million people in South Sudan have been displaced since the violence started in December 2013. Since there was no possibility to cultivate the land, over three million people could be victim of food shortages…

By Ivan Gayton, MSF emergency coordinator in Bentiu, South Sudan In South Sudan, 40,000 people are crowded into a flooded United Nations compound in Bentiu. Living conditions are horrific but it is the only refuge they have…

HIGHLIGHTS As at 6 th August 2014, Kakuma had received 41,780 asylum seekers from South Sudan. This brings the total camp population to 177,210. Out of this figure, 169,652 had been registered by UNHCR and DRA as…

Somalia faces major human resource gaps as it attempts to move forward and achieve the reconstruction and peace-building objectives set out in its Vision 2016 initiative. The Somali diaspora present a unique reserve of experts with skills…