In the first seven months of 2019, some 170,000 people were infected with the disease. Compared to the same period in 2018, this year’s dengue caseload is 97 per cent higher.
Two years after their mass exodus from Myanmar, quality learning and life skills are crucial for the survival of more than 500,000 children sheltered in Bangladesh refugee camps.
Severe under-funding and growing insecurity mean rising numbers need help and are unable to return home. In the last three weeks of June, more than 145,000 people sought safety in camps.
Electric cart will transport the elderly, pregnant women and persons with disabilities who are crossing the Stanytsya Luhanska pedestrian checkpoint.
La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones destaca que la cifra está más de 30% por encima a la registrada durante el mismo periodo del año anterior, cuando se registraron 384 decesos.
IFRC allocated CHF 249,818 and issued Dzud Early Action Protocol which will be implemented by Mongolia Red Cross to support vulnerable herders in 21 provinces of the country.
An attack in Idlib province led to the deaths that add to the grim total of more than 500 civilian fatalities documented by the UN over the past three and a half months alone.
Senior political and security force officials have created, supported, and used armed groups in the Kivus and elsewhere in DRC, to gain control over land, minerals, or taxation rackets.
Medical staff working at border points will be vaccinated as well as other people potentially exposed to Ebola, such as laboratory workers, surveillance teams and burial teams.
Seven million people need humanitarian assistance and nearly two million are on the brink of famine in South Sudan, where food insecurity is at its worst level in eight years.