General Updates Following its formal activation on 26 March 2021, the Camp Coordination and Camp management (CCCM) Cluster is led by the National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) with coordination support by IOM, UNHCR and ANE. The cluster’s objective is to coordinate assistance and protection to displaced communities living in collective camp and camp-like settings, […]
Day: July 8, 2021
WFP Ethiopia Country Brief, May 2021
In Numbers 3.14 million people assisted USD 1,995,742 in cash transfers USD 377 million (July – December 2021) net funding requirements 35,119 mt of food assistance distributed Operational Updates WFP assisted 3.14 million people, including drought and flood-affected people, internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and malnourished children and women. WFP extended its emergency food assistance relief response in Tigray and […]
Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report #14 – July 8, 2021
FAST FACTS In Ethiopia, International Medical Corps has directly reached roughly 125,450 people with services across all our operations. International Medical Corps has screened 31,641 children and pregnant women for acute malnutrition since we started delivering services in the area. In Hamdeyet refugee camp in Sudan, community leaders and mobilizers who have been trained by […]
Ethiopia: Tigray: Humanitarian Snapshot (as of June 2021)
Since the beginning of the year, humanitarian needs have significantly increased in Ethiopia. As the conflict in Tigray continues, resulting in 5.2 million people needing urgent humanitarian assistance1 including 353,000 people in catastrophic levels of food insecurity, ethnic tensions, increased presence of unidentified armed groups (UAGs), and border disputes have also led to conflicts in […]
Security Council: Peace and Security in Africa
Security Council 8816th Meeting (PM) Note: Owing to the liquidity crisis and the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting our Organization, only a partial summary of statements made in today’s meeting of the Security Council is available at this time. The complete summary will be issued later as Press Release SC/14576. Briefings PARFAIT ONANGA-ANYANGA, Special Envoy of […]
Amid COVID job losses, ‘high food prices are hunger’s new best friend’, WFP warns
WFP estimates that a record 270 million people worldwide are acutely food insecure or at high risk this year, a 40 per cent jump from 2020. “High food prices are hunger’s new best friend. We already have conflict, climate and COVID-19 working together to push more people into hunger and misery. Now food prices have joined the deadly […]