Assessments

KEY POINTS The highest levels of negative coping were reported in parts of Masvingo, Mashonaland East and Manicaland provinces. Small variations between the prices of unrefined and refined maize grain were registered in Mwenezi district. Around 80 percent of…

KEY POINTS Despite surplus production, June 2016 maize prices are higher than same period last year (June 2015) and above the five-year average. This may be attributed to factors including dryness and cross-border trading with neighbouring countries. Erratic…

1. Introduction Polish Humanitarian Action in collaboration with other humanitarian actors from Middle Shabelle - WOCCA, Aid Vision and SHARDO conducted an initial rapid need assessment at villages in Balcad district recently affected by floods; to understand…

Foreword The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC), as has become the tradition since 2002, conducted the 15th annual Rural Livelihoods Assessment (RLA). The assessment is part of a comprehensive information system that informs Government and its Development…

Background Malawi, as was the case with many countries in the Southern Africa Region, experienced weather related hazards because of the effects of El Nino. These weather related hazards included late on-set of rains, erratic rainfall, prolonged…

· El Nino is having a devastating impact on children in the Southern Africa region forcing them into early marriage, child labour and out of school, reveals a World…

IOM conducted a gate traffic monitoring exercise for six days at the entry and exit points of the POC. The objective of the exercise is to understand the net influx or out flux of the population…

IOM conducted a gate traffic monitoring exercise for 6 days at the entry and exit points of the Cathedral. The objective of the exercise is to understand the involved counting the number of people who enter…

BACKGROUND Baidoa or Baydhabo, as is locally known is the capital of the Bay region; a strategic town in south-central Somalia situated approximately 250 kilometers west of Mogadishu and 240 km southeast of the Ethiopian border. The…

The current epidemic of yellow fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic vector-borne disease, which has seen outbreaks in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, highlights the risk of infection for unvaccinated travellers. There is also a…