This report is produced by the United Nations Sub-Regional Team (UNST) for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It is issued by the Office of the Resident...
Boletín Informativo No. 460-2021 Según el Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología -INSIVUMEH-, a través de su boletín vulcanológico especial #141-2021, el volcán de...
EL CARIBE: COVID-19 La OPS está manifestando su preocupación por las bajas tasas de vacunación contra la COVID-19 y el aumento de las muertes y hospitalizaciones en el Caribe. Los países y...
THE CARIBBEAN: COVID-19 PAHO is expressing concern over low COVID-19 vaccination rates and growing deaths and hospitalizations in the Caribbean. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries and...
REGIONAL SUMMARY: For the thirty-seventh (37th) week of 2021, a total of 33 disasters (2 reports on drought, 19 floods, 5 landslides, 1 storm, and 6 wind-related) affected the region. Cambodia,...
Highlights According to local authorities in Goma, 4,044 houses and 130 fields were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on May 22, 2021. UNHCR distributed plastic sheeting to 4,535...
The emergency appeal funding requirement is revised downwards from 11.6 million Swiss francs to 4 million Swiss Francs, with an outstanding 1.64 million Swiss francs required to assist the Democratic...
The aftershocks of the Mount Nyiragongo volcanic eruption in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, left thousands in neighboring Rwanda homeless and without food as houses collapsed and...
On Saturday May 22, 2021 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Justine Asifiwe, 21, was preparing dinner for her children when she heard shouts growing louder outside. Stepping out into the...
FAST FACTS Since the beginning of the pandemic, the world has confirmed about 226 million cases of COVID-19, along with more than 4.6 million documented deaths. Across the globe, more than 5.7...