HIGHLIGHTS • Four new Member States (Algeria, Austria, Croatia, and Switzerland) reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Algeria is the first Member State of the AFRO Region to report a case...
HIGHLIGHTS • Four new Member States (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, and Oman) reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • For healthcare workers and public health professionals, WHO has an online...
MENA: Renewed wave of mass uprisings met with brutality and repression during ‘year of defiance’ Report reviews human rights in 19 MENA states during 2019 Wave of protests across Algeria, Iraq, Iran...
Following is an op-ed by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, and the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN,...
Trois zones sensibles présentant une activité acridienne menaçante La situation en cours demeure extrêmement préoccupante dans trois zones principales : (1) Dans la Corne de l’Afrique, zone la plus...
Global Overview In January, the security situation in the Sahel deteriorated, especially in central Mali, western Niger and northern Burkina Faso, where suspected jihadists inflicted a heavy toll on...
Three hot-spots of threatening locust activity The current situation remains extremely alarming in three main areas. (1) In the Horn of Africa, the worst affected area, there is an unprecedented...
Three hot-spots of threatening locust activity The current situation remains extremely alarming in three main areas: (1) In the Horn of Africa, the worst affected area, there is an unprecedented...
Locusts will increase further as a new generation of breeding starts in the Horn of Africa The current Desert Locust situation remains extremely alarming and represents an unprecedented threat to...
Large and numerous swarms continue to threaten the Horn of Africa Kenya. Immature and maturing swarms continue to arrive in the northeast from Ethiopia and Somalia and are moving throughout northern...