Reports

Situation Overview Light showers received in most parts of the county during the month under review. Main sources of water for the month of May were boreholes, water trucking, shallow wells, earth pans, Rivers Daua, and underground water…

Situation Overview The district was at Normal stage of the drought early warning cycle and the trend was stable. However, the trend was different across livelihood zones. In mixed farming livelihood zone, the stage was normal and…

Situation Overview  The onset of short rains ceased during the third dekad of April. No rains were received in May. The weather was characterized by hot and sunny days followed by warm and cloudy nights.  Although…

Situation Overview  During the month under review, the county experienced light rains which were also poorly distributed with regard to both time and space with the high altitude zones recording 5 to 8 rainy days while…

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.  Agro pastoral livelihood zone of Bute and Gurar received 196.6mm and…

3.5 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance Key Messages Nearly 2.4 million people face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) food insecurity and 1.1 million people face Emergency (IPC Phase 4) food insecurity in South Sudan, roughly 30…

Highlights A measles outbreak was declared in May with 3,286 suspected cases reported since January. UNICEF and partners have conducted small-scale emergency response campaigns and are preparing further vaccination activities around the country. Less than one third…

Author(s): Dyan Mazurana, Anastasia Marshak, Jimmy Hilton Opio, Rachel Gordon and Teddy Atim Type: Briefing Paper Organisation: Feinstein International Center Country: Uganda Date: 23/05/2014 Full summary: In 2012/13, SLRC implemented the first round of an original sub-regional panel survey in northern…

Executive Summary The post-harvest survey of the 2013/14 agricultural season revealed low crop production in North Darfur State and estimated the cereal deficit to be approximately 142,000 MT. Early this year, the State authorities, acknowledging the harvest results,…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The present study was undertaken by Samuel Hall for NRC Ethiopia to examine the possible alternative to the encampment policy for Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia. Looking at the level of selfreliance reached by refugees living…