Informes

Health workers deliver lifesaving services to expectant mothers June 2014—Over 8,500 women die each year in Tanzania from pregnancy-related complications such as severe hemorrhage, sepsis, obstructed labor, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and complications from unsafe abortions. Almost…

Second consecutive below-average main harvest is likely Key Messages National and regional forecasts suggest the increased likelihood of El Niño, usually associated with average to below-average June to September rains in Sudan. Poor rainfall performance and a second…

June 23 2014: Burundian peacebuilder, Jean Baptiste Niyongabo, looks at what lessons Burundi can draw from Liberia’s peacebuilding process and methods. Peacebuilding is not an isolated activity in which peace activists have to limit themselves in their…

LONDON, 30 June 2014 (IRIN) - When a team from Oxford University's Humanitarian Innovation Project set out to explore what work refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda had managed to find, they were struck by the…

Background The Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) is an independent, non-political humanitarian organization that was founded in 1963 and was established with presidential decree in 1965. The Society has been providing humanitarian services, including health care, to…

Situation Overview The month remained largely dry with light showers around the Nyambene ranges during the first dekad. This is normal for this time of the year. Pasture and browse quality and quantity remained fair across all livelihood…

Situation Overview No rainfall received over June 2014, the drought conditions progressed in all livelihood zones, severe in Oldonyiro and Cherab wards that had not received MAM rains. Water access and availability worsened in the pastoral livelihood zone.…

SITUATION OVERVIEW The county drought situation is at alert stage on worsening trend following the depressed rainfall which was poorly distributed in both time and space. Some parts of the county such as Diff and Griftu received little…

Situation overview: The county received rains during the month with Matuga sub-county receiving 148.5 mm for 11 rainy days, Shimba Hills 209.0 mm for 11 rainy days, Msambweni sub-county 195 mm for 10 rainy days, and Kinango…

Situation Overview During the month under review, the county experienced small amounts of rainfall which were poorly distributed in both time and space with moderate rains reported around the area of Nyahururu. All marginal mixed farming, mixed…