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Displaced families in areas already plagued by conflict and the deadly Ebola virus have lost access to food and are on the brink of malnutrition, worsening the crisis.

UNHCR is delivering quick impact projects to forcibly displaced families and helping them gain sustainable livelihoods by providing the necessary materials and training.

On Saturday, 200 families were moved out of emergency shelters in the central town of Beira. It’s hoped that over the next 10 days, some 70,000 further people will be moved.

Flood water is still covering a wide area, leading to displacement of residents, damage to property, death of livestock and destruction of agricultural crops in many villages and the marshlands.

A longstanding dispute over water resources between two tribes in the eastern province of Nangarhar has been resolved through mediation and community engagement.

Thirty years in the making, RTS,S is the first, and to date the only, vaccine that can significantly reduce malaria in children. In Africa alone, the disease kills more than 250,000 children every year.

La FAO trabajará con los gobiernos para fortalecer las sociedades territoriales y producir gobiernos locales más competentes y eficaces, creando puentes que conecten estos territorios a lo largo de nuestro continente, para que aprendan unos de los otros.

UNDP-commissioned study, released today, projects that if the war ends in 2022, development gains will have been set back by 26 years — almost a generation.

"The situation in and around the city has evolved rapidly over the past two weeks, and fears of yet another protracted conflict are on the rise.”

WHO aims to immunize children under the age of 5 against vaccine-preventable diseases and will focus on reaching almost 250 000 children who were not vaccinated during previous campaigns.