"It is clear that the current approach to the Mediterranean is unworkable. Year after year, it continues to be the most dangerous migration route in the world, with the highest fatality rate."
This funding will allow WHO to reach 7.6 million people inside Sudan and more than 500,000 individuals forced to flee to neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Children are facing staggering levels of violence that have exacerbated hunger and malnutrition in a country already mired in poverty and a resurgence of cholera.
UNHCR’s flagship report found that by end-2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights abuses stood at a record 108.4 million, up 19.1 million on a year earlier.
The ICRC has developed a Safety Net programme to provide financial support to people with disability who are breadwinners for their families but have no means of livelihood.
Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2022, the highest number since 2017 when 4,255 deaths were recorded, according to IOM.
WHO is urgently strengthening its response in the affected areas to meet people's immediate and long-term health needs. In the short term, there is a significant risk of waterborne diseases.
An estimated 5,000 people were already living in three major camps around Wad Madani. Last week, the number of displaced people rose from 300 to 2,800 in one location, says MSF.
Eighty-four districts have an average severe acute malnutrition rate of 12 percent, impacting over 3.5 million children. Among them, more than 1.45 million children suffer from severe wasting.
This decision is yet another devastating setback for more than a million people whom humanitarians had planned to reach with life-saving assistance in Rakhine state over the weeks and months ahead.