Parts of Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire remain dry while heavy rainfall triggers flooding across West and East Africa Africa Weather Hazards Desert locust swarms remain present across parts of Ethiopia,...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, around 80 percent of seeds used by smallholder farmers come from seed systems managed by farmers. Local seeds have adapted over centuries to local growing conditions and are...
Disasters caused by storms, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and other natural hazards triggered 24.9 million new displacements across 140 countries and territories around the world in 2019. This is...
HIGHLIGHTS As of 5 August, 4,339 COVID-19 cases and 84 deaths were confirmed, with 75 per cent of cases due to local transmission. From 1 April to 5 August, over 14,044 Zimbabwean migrants returned...
The requirements for the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) 2020 reached $39.76 billion for 63 countries by the end of July. This is a significant increase from the $28.8 billion published on 4...
Release Date: Aug 6, 2020 Release Number: NR 461 Related Locations: Region II, Puerto Rico Related Disaster(s): 4339 These projects are part of an investment of $820 million in permanent work for the...
In this brief, we examine the impact of the floods on some of the poorest people living in Mangochi and Nsanje; the extent of the damage caused to their households; and the warnings and type of...
HIGHLIGHTS • A total of 3425 COVID-19 positive cases have been reported in Cox’s Bazar district, of which 75 in the Rohingya camps. • As of 02 August 2020, 12 Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI)...
LATINOAMÉRICA & EL CARIBE: PANORAMA DE CRISIS COVID-19 Latinoamérica y el Caribe concentra casi el 30 por ciento de los casos de COVID-19 a nivel global, a pesar de ser menos del diez por ciento de...
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN: COVID-19 CRISIS OVERVIEW Latin America and the Caribbean now accounts for nearly 30 per cent of global COVID-19 cases, despite having less than a tenth of the global...