With funds received through this appeal, UNRWA will continue cash and in-kind food assistance, together with health care, education, technical and vocational training.
Since January, extreme climate shocks in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique have destroyed over two million hectares of crops, and damaged over 7,000 homes and public infrastructure.
Priorities for WHO teams include bringing medicines, fuel and food - and assessing what other supplies are needed and how to provide relief to the most severely injured and sick.
Malawi is still suffering from the impacts of tropical storms and cyclones in 2022 and 2023 and the compounded effect is to push up to 40 percent of the population into hunger.
Of Sudan’s 161 stabilization centres, only 103 in 17 states are fully functional and able to give life-saving treatment to children suffering severe acute malnutrition with medical complications.
This is the third time that the northern region has experienced flooding in less than a month, with seven people killed and 384 families affected in heavy rains that occurred on 21 and 26-27 March.
As of March 2024, a total of 4.86 million people are estimated to be acutely malnourished, of whom 3.66 million are children under five and 1.2 million are pregnant and lactating women.
An immunization drive will take place in early April in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, with 77 per cent of confirmed cases in the Philippines being reported from there.
Since the start of the conflict in South Sudan more than 10 years ago, growing needs compounded by food shortages, insecurity and the impacts of climate change, have kept South Sudanese in exile.
Many children in the worst affected areas of the country, where around a third of the population is nomadic, are also missing out on school because of road closures brought on by thick snow and ice.