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70 Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are being invaded by enormous swarms of desert locusts in the worst desert locust infestation in 70 years in Kenya, and in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia. 150 km A...

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Key messages Floods: According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET), the greater horn of Africa region received up to 300 per cent above average rainfall from October to mid-November...

Key messages Food Security Overview: National Meher production is expected to be average with localized areas of below average production due to the impact of poor Kiremt rainfall, the ongoing desert...

Commitment to reduce management costs in refugee contexts One of “the reduce management costs” workstream commitments of the Grand Bargain is to decrease the costs of delivering assistance with the...

Key figures: 343,180 Libyans currently internally displaced (IDPs) 447,388 returned IDPs 46,913 registered refugees and asylum-seekers 1,224 monitoring visits to detention centres since 2019 1,846...

The GPEI Polio Partners Group convened the eighth annual technical workshop on 6 December 2019 where a global overview of the status of poliovirus detection was presented among other polio updates...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee...

Addis Ababa – Shitaye Assefa, a 65-year-old mother in Ethiopia’s Oromia Regional State, knows what it means to live without a reliable supply of water. “Our daughters faced many hardships and attacks...

Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer RJMEC 23 January 2020 I want to begin by wishing everyone a happy new year. We all hope that 2020 will be the year in...