East Africa was emerging from a raging famine in the last 2 years, with countries such as Sudan and DRC emerging from war and the Ebola Crisis. Other Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and...
The ripple effect of COVID-19 on economic activities, livelihoods and food security in East Africa and the Great Lakes COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11...
Priya Joshi Having emergency plans in place has helped us to respond quickly to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone. We have supported basic hygiene, humane quarantine facilities, and provided information on...
Never before has the entire world faced a crisis at the scale of the Coronavirus. Countries must work together to defeat the virus – as Dr. Mike Ryan from the World Health Organisation has said,...
Jenny Cornally 10 April 2020 Honduras has the highest number of cases in Central America so we are preparing for the worst. For a country of 9 million people, there are only 20 ventilators in the...
Alison Heron From Beirut under lockdown, Alison Heron reports on the challenges of responding to COVID in Lebanon and Syria The streets of Beirut are silent. I can have my doors and windows open all...
Executive Summary “As I know, rape survivors don't seek help as they feel unacceptable in the community” IDP woman, Belet Hawa district in an individual interview The rapid assessment findings...
Ian Dolan From Kampala under lockdown, Ian Dolan reports on how we respond to the unprecedented challenge of the virus outbreak. Here in Uganda there is a lot of fear and a lot of uncertainty around...
As COVID-19 hits countries across the world, over half the world’s population lack safe sanitation. Washing your hands. It’s something we do many times every day. Now we’re all doing it even more...
Ciaran Gallagher Trócaire is extremely concerned by serious threats recently received by our local partner, Casa del Migrante, in Guatemala. Casa del Migrante – a Migrant House, based in Guatemala...