Informes

SITUATION OVERVIEW Nigeria is currently facing devastating floods that have severely impacted multiple states, marking a significant escalation compared to previous years and underscoring a growing humanitarian crisis. The scale of the destruction is unprecedented, further exacerbating…

The Gambia Red Cross Society was established in 1966 as a national humanitarian organization, auxiliary to the public authorities, particularly to the Ministry of Health as well as to the Medical Services of the Armed Forces,…

GENÈVE – Le HCR, l'Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, souhaite mobiliser 21,4 millions de dollars pour renforcer de toute urgence les efforts de prévention et de réponse en faveur des réfugiés dans les pays…

UNHCR urgently appeals for funds to reinforce health services amid mpox emergency GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, needs $21.4 million until the end of the year to urgently scale up critical response and prevention efforts…

OVERALL PROGRESS Context In 2023, Nigeria held its general elections that took place in all the states including the Federal Capital Territory. The general elections created hurdles for humanitarian programme implementation in Nigeria. In several areas of the…

Global strategic preparedness and response plan launched by WHO to contain mpox outbreak The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to stop outbreaks of human-to-human transmission of mpox through coordinated…

On August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern about the upsurge of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of…

Chair, members of the committee, dear colleagues and friends, Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and thank you all for joining us for this first extraordinary meeting of this Committee, which we have convened following my…

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13 Aug 2024 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has officially declared the ongoing Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such…

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international…