Key Findings • Fangak county has been affected by two years of consecutive flooding, with observed flood extent and severity much higher than in previous years. This has driven large-scale...
DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT South Sudan is experiencing severe flooding for the third consecutive year 2019 to 2021. By 7 October at least 623,000 people were affected since May, causing widespread...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our escalating climate emergency is also a humanitarian emergency. Even if rising temperatures can be kept within 1.5°C of pre-industrial levels (and currently we are on course for...
La fonte de glaciers africains emblématiques témoigne des changements du système Terre Genève, le 19 octobre 2021 (OMM) – L’évolution du régime des précipitations, la hausse des températures et...
Global climate context in 2020 Concentrations of the major greenhouse gases (GHGs) – carbon dioxide (CO2 ), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) – continued to increase in 2019 and 2020.5 Despite...
Melting of iconic African glaciers symbolizes changes to Earth system Geneva, 19 October 2021 (WMO) - Changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and more extreme weather contributed to...
5 October 2021, Geneva/New York – On this World Teachers’ Day, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, announced it has reached...
By Anton Quist This report reflects on the 2020 Human Security Survey (HSS) outcomes of Payinjiar County, Unity State, South Sudan, which took place over the course of three weeks in October 2020, as...
(Juba, 19 August 2021) Every year on World Humanitarian Day (WHD), we commemorate humanitarian workers who work tirelessly to reach millions of crisis-affected people with assistance and protection...
Key Findings A series of compounding shocks, particularly the 2013-2019 civil war and atypical flooding in 2020, have restricted the viability of traditional livelihood activities in Leer and...