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CrisisInSight Weekly Picks, 3 September 2020

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Algeria

Sahrawi refugees living in Tindouf camps have lost over 1,700 livestock this year due to a pulmonary epidemic.

More than 50% of children and women of reproductive age in the camps suffer from anaemia, malnutrition (7.6%), or chronic malnutrition (28%).

Food insecurity is also widespread among the Sahrawi refugee population (173,6000 people), with 30% food insecure and 58% vulnerable to food insecurity ...

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Costa Rica

The country currently hosts 81,000 Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers who are now facing food insecurity, loss of livelihoods and evictions due to the COVID-19 crisis.

A recent rapid needs assessment of 275 households (900 people) found 63% of the surveyed households are eating only two meals a day and for 92%, food security has become the first priority need ...

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Haiti

Tropical Storm Laura reached Haiti on 23 August, causing heavy rains, flash floods, and landslides especially in Sud-Est, Sud, Ouest and Nippes departments.

In numerous communes of Sud-Est department agricultural losses are extensive, estimated at 50-80% for certain crops.

Crop losses are particularly worrying in a country with six million people living below the poverty line and a deepening food security crisis ...

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