Seven weeks after Rai, nearly 144,000 people are displaced and 1.7 million houses, 16,000 schools and 330 health clinics have been damaged or destroyed. More than 10 million hectares of crops were hit.
Stronger concerted efforts are needed to reduce the increasing impact of these explosives as the number of child casualties grew 67% compared to 2020 (79 children for that year, including 61 boys).
There has been an increase of targeted attacks by armed groups against displaced people in Ituri. On top of the most recent attack, about 68 people have been killed in the same area since November.
The upsurge in military airstrikes and indiscriminate attacks against civilians highlight the failure of efforts to protect civilians from harm and find a durable solution to the conflict.
Up to 7.7 million people need urgent humanitarian aid and the humanitarian appeal is underfunded by a staggering 98%. The time to act is now, urged local and international organizations.
The IRC calls for urgent scale-up of assistance as consecutive seasons without adequate rainfall have been affecting at least 25 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
The people of Myanmar have entered 2022 facing an unprecedented political, socioeconomic, human rights and humanitarian crisis. Almost half the population is expected to be living in poverty in 2022.
Serious concerns persist about the impact of the storm on highly vulnerable people and the limited resources that are available to respond to the unfolding needs.
WFP estimates that on average, crisis-affected families in northern Ethiopia were getting less than 30 percent of their caloric needs in the past months, pushing people deeper into crisis.
These countries all had parts of populations identified or projected to experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, IPC Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention, according to FAO and WFP.