News Monitor
Alongside the significant increase in malnutrition admissions, MSF teams are seeing high numbers of children with vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles.
Recent attacks across Syria have killed and injured children and destroyed vital civilian infrastructure like electricity and water stations, schools and hospitals.
The first graders join 625,000 children who have already been denied an entire school year, and with the conflict still ongoing, face the high risk of a second year without education.
Desperate to meet basic needs, many Venezuelans undertake perilous journeys across borders, exposing themselves to violence, extortion, robbery, exploitation, smuggling, human trafficking, and other dangers.
More than 14,000 schools have been forced to close due to violence and insecurity as of June 2024, impacting the learning of hundreds of thousands of children across the region.
The overall estimated budget for the six-month plan is close to US$ 600 million with allocation to response and readiness in the member states, operational and technical support through partners.
Since mid-June 2024, a total of 14.6 million people have been affected by a series of flooding events hitting Bangladesh across the northern, northeastern and southern regions.
The deterioration of the food security situation is still linked to the negative impact of El Nino on crop and livestock production, price shocks, economic decline and unemployment.
The floods have devastated communities, destroyed homes and infrastructure and heightened protection risks for the most vulnerable, severely affecting forcibly displaced populations.
The floods have devastated communities, destroyed homes and infrastructure and heightened protection risks for the most vulnerable, severely affecting forcibly displaced populations.
Together with its humanitarian partners, the EU aims to repair damaged buildings, ensure electricity and heating, and provide shelter to the ones most in need.
In the Abyei Administrative Area, heavy rains have significantly disrupted the main supply route in southern Abyei, obstructing humanitarian access and delaying deliveries.
The unprecedented weather events have compounded the country's humanitarian crisis, leaving thousands of internally displaced persons and host communities in dire need of assistance.
Thousands of children in eastern Sudan are at risk of cholera following a major outbreak caused by widespread flooding, contaminated water and a decimated health system after 16 months of conflict.
While there are a number of tools available for investigating infectious disease outbreaks, this is the first unified, structured approach to investigating the origins of a novel pathogen.
While there are a number of tools available for investigating infectious disease outbreaks, this is the first unified, structured approach to investigating the origins of a novel pathogen.
The number of reported cholera cases increased by 13% and deaths by 71% in 2023 compared to 2022. More than 4,000 people died last year from a disease that is preventable and easily treatable.
Lesotho will receive US$ 2 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund as approximately a third of the populationâabout 700,000 peopleâare expected to face hunger in the coming months.
Three quarters of people assessed said they were selling household assets to buy food. The rains and floods have destroyed 80% of cotton crops in Sanghar, the primary source of income for farmers.
The vaccination campaign will reach children and pregnant women in all 210 counties who have missed out on life-saving vaccines since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
Cases in the eastern province of South Kivu are spreading more than twice as fast in children as in the general population, as health workers race to curb the spread of the virus.