Reports

Stable staple food prices maintain Minimal acute food insecurity outcomes in the country KEY MESSAGES Most households including the very poor are experiencing Minimal acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 1) as cereals and other food items are readily…

Canada’s support to Médecins Sans Frontières is helping to improve access to emergency health care August 22, 2014 – Ottawa, Ontario – Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada Today, the Honourable Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour…

Emery Minani is a 31 years old ex-combatant who was born in Gitega, central Burundi. He was 13 years old when he was forced to join the rebels in 1996. “I firstly joined the CNDD (National…

Concluding her four-day visit to Somalia and two days in Nairobi, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, called for the full implementation of the two Action Plans signed…

Author(s): Daniel Maxwell,Martina Santschi Organisation: Feinstein International Center Country: South Sudan Date: 13/08/2014 Full summary: Since December 2013 – only two and a half years after becoming an independent country – South Sudan has been mired in a deep political, military,…

Highlights ● Preliminary analysis of food security in conflict-affected areas shows that while the situation remains dire, it has not worsened. ● Humanitarian barges continued their progress, arriving at Malakal on 19 August and now continuing to Melut,…

Executive Summary This report begins by considering the extent to which disaster risk reduction (DRR) is main streamed into the disaster risk management laws and institutions in Madagascar. It identifies key laws and regulations in the area…

Highlights Compared to July 2013, country level general inflation rate increased by 6.9%; food inflation by 5.8% and non-food by 8.2%. Of the food index components, higher increases in indices were observed on: oil and fats (13.9%),…

BOSSASO/NAIROBI – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) urges residents of Bossaso to beware of a recently uncovered scam aimed at defrauding displaced people. Individuals posing as WFP employees have been arrested by the authorities in…

Argument in Foreign Policy on 21 August 2014 by Rajiv Shah, Valerie Amos, Kristalina Georgieva and Børge Brende After half a year of fighting, the world's newest country is barreling toward calamity. But its leaders can pull…