Background The major disease outbreaks in Sudan for the past decades are grouped into three categories based on type of transmission: water-borne, vector-borne and vaccine-preventable diseases. This...
SITUATION OVERVIEW Between 1-2 September 2019, Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, devastated The Bahamas. The hardest hit islands were Abaco and Grand Bahama in the north-western section of the...
Total people in need: 7.9 million Total children (<18) in need: 4.1 million Total people to be reached: 700,000 Total children to be reached: 594,998 2019 programme targets Nutrition - 57,741...
Published on 27th September 2019 Situation Overview Zimbabwe faces a multitude of humanitarian challenges as a result of climate and economic shocks. Following the failed 2018-2019 agricultural...
An unprecedented number of fires have raged throughout Brazil in 2019, intensifying in August. There have been more than 80,000 fires so far this year, the most ever recorded by the country’s...
Contexte Depuis début 2018, le Burkina Faso est confronté à une crise humanitaire sans précédent. La détérioration rapide de l’insécurité et l’augmentation soudaine des attaques armées ont engendré...
I. CONTEXTE Au cours des derniers mois, l’augmentation soudaine de la violence dans les États de Zamfara, Sokoto et Katsina, dans le nord du Nigéria, a entraîné une nouvelle situation d’urgence au...
Angola The humanitarian situation in Angola continues to deteriorate, and is disproportionately affecting women and children. Erratic rainfall throughout south Angola has worsened drought conditions,...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is dealing with the world’s second largest outbreak of Ebola. As of end August 2019, more than 3,000 cases of Ebola had been recorded,...
This revised Emergency Appeal seeks a total of 17.3 million Swiss francs to enable the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to support the Bahamas Red Cross Society...