Sex workers in Africa are among the communities suffering the most due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as lockdowns and police crackdowns leave millions without income. Sex workers have always been...
The latest edition of Crisis Group’s monthly conict tracker highlights deteriorations in May in seven countries and conict situations. In Sudan, intercommunal violence erupted in the country’s west,...
EHOA SITUATION OVERVIEW The impact of COVID-19 on East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) continues to play out with severe negative consequences for migrants, including IDPs and other vulnerable groups. The...
Widespread heavy rainfall has maintained flooding across parts of eastern and central Africa Despite ongoing mitigation measures, desert locust swarms are still present across the Horn of Africa...
HIGHLIGHTS During the reporting period, over 2.9 billion people have been reached with COVID-19 messaging, including in crisis affected countries. Given UNICEF’s leadership of the RCCE pillar of the...
Overview In East Africa, heavy rainfall continued in May, benefiting crop development for main season cereals but causing further flooding and desert locust development. In West Africa, conditions...
Spring-bred swarms will spread to summer breeding areas The unprecedented Desert Locust threat to food security and livelihoods continues in the Horn of Africa and is likely to spread to southwest...
Highlights The WFP family tragically lost two front line colleagues to COVID-19 over the past few weeks in Yemen and Sudan. We express our heartfelt condolences to their respective families during...
IGAD regional report 2020 in brief The data and the analyses in this report were prepared before the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and do not account for its impact on vulnerable people in...