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After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, WFP has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighbourhood.
âThousands of families now shelter in damaged and destroyed facilities in Khan Younis, where UNRWA keeps providing essential services, despite increasing challenges. Conditions are unspeakable.â
âWe have a cohort of more than 600 patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV, and many of them tell us that they can no longer follow the treatment properly because of the lack of food,â - MSF team leader.
The NRC's annual list of neglected displacement crises is based on the lack of humanitarian funding, media attention, and international political and diplomatic initiatives.
Analysis shows more than 33 million children and 39 million adults live in both the âcrisisâ phase 3 of hunger and in the 18 countries where extreme weather events were the drivers of food insecurity.
The IFRC launched a CHF 12.5 million Emergency Appeal that aims to assist 650,000 people in the 8 hardest-hit districts with clean water, food, medical aid and cash assistance.
Children are experiencing a âvicious cycle of sufferingâ as violence continues to spike in Haiti
The latest estimates show that more than half a million children in Haiti are living in neighbourhoods controlled by armed groups, which puts them at higher risk of violence, and child recruitment.
The rains, which followed years of drought, have displaced more than 420,000 people and killed at least 330 after unusually heavy flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
In 2023, faced with a funding crisis, WFP had to cut its food assistance from the full entitlement at the time of US$12 to US$8, leaving the Rohingya with just 25 cents to meet their daily food needs.
The devastating impacts of Cyclone Remal have further reduced the ability of communities to cope with climate shocks and stresses. Slow onset crises are also affecting childrenâs lives.
Around 1.26 million people (23 percent of the analysed population) are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and September 2024, according to IPC.
Tigray region in the north hosts the highest number of IDPs primarily due to conflict, while the Somali region in the east hosts the highest number of those internally displaced by drought.
Child malnutrition in Sudan is at emergency levels. In Central Darfur, acute malnutrition is estimated to be at 15.6 percent among children under five, while in ZamZam camp it is close to 30%.
Gazans are desperate for the war to end â as are humanitarian workers on the ground, who are largely displaced and dispersed along with the people they are meant to serve.
"We have distributed an enormous amount of essential medical supplies, but it's not enough. I mean, this is such an overwhelming disaster, itâs not enough,â said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn of WHO Palestine.
The World Bank today approved $700 million for basic services and to build disaster and social resilience in Bangladesh where nearly one million Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar since 2017.