Food security worsened significantly in areas hit by last year’s floods Juba – Some 6.5 million people in South Sudan – more than half of the population - could be in acute food insecurity at the...
Overview How Severe, How Many and When – In the analysis period of January 2020, 5.29 million people (45.2% of the population) are estimated to have faced Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food...
Extreme weather events due to the climate crisis are becoming the new normal in the Greater Horn of Africa. Just two years after the 2016/2017 drought and one year after flooding in 2018,...
Bonn/Berlin, 18/02/2020. East Africa and South Asia are currently suffering from one of the worst plagues of locusts in the last 25 years. In Kenya, Ethiopia, Somaliland and Uganda, locusts are...
Concern Worldwide today launched an emergency appeal for funds to prevent a major humanitarian crisis in east Africa as massive swarms of desert locusts threaten food supplies of 13 million people...
Ethiopia ratifies Kampala Convention: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes Ethiopia’s ratification on 13th February of the African Union (AU) Convention for the Protection and Assistance of...
(excerpt) Remarks Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State Sheraton Hotel Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 18, 2020 MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the joint press briefing of His Excellency Ato...
Overview Between November 2019 and April 2020, nearly one million people, 20% out of a population of 4.8 million in 16 analysed districts of Tanzania, were estimated to be experiencing severe food...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started training 300 National Youth Service (NYS) trainees as part of its action plan to boost the Government of Kenya's...
Residents of Otuke in northern Uganda have been left in panic after desert locusts, which have been causing havoc in the neighbouring Karamoja region, spread to the district. Two swarms of locusts...