On the evening of October 14, 2016, armed Islamic terrorists from the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) descended on American missionary Jeff Woodke’s home in Abalak, a town in northern Niger. They shot two house guards and abducted Woodke as he tried to escape, then moved him across the b
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. Ministers responsible for Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Affairs from IGAD Member States adopted the Mombasa Ministerial Declaration on Anticipatory Action on 30 October 2026, during the Second Eastern Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action (EADP-2) in Momba...
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.000 personas refugiadas y solicitantes de asilo en Yemen. El aumento de la inseguridad, el colapso de la economía, el agotamiento de los recursos y las graves restricciones al acceso humanitario están dejando a decenas de miles de personas sin un lugar seguro al que acudir. Pese...
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.3 million in less than a year, according to the latest analyses from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), released today. The data from the IPC, the world's leading authority on hunger monitoring, reveals that 28.8 million people are experiencing acute food i...
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Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria . According to the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as of 24 October 2026, the country had reported 9,964 confirmed cases of Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD), including 4,841 deaths, repres...
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. SITUATION UPDATE Key developments since SitRep 01 Odisha floods: extreme rain Patrapur 546 mm) caused flash floods in Ganjam and Gajapati; Rushikulya embankments breached. Helicopters are evacuating people and dropping food. AP: CM puts deaths at 7 and the preliminary loss at ...
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Countries: Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan . This two-pager explores barriers to equitable land access for women, youth and persons with disabilities in Uganda’s refugee-hosting districts, highlighting emerging solutions and recommendations for more inclusiv...
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. This desk review explores how land access affects food security, livelihoods and self-reliance in Uganda’s refugee-hosting districts. It highlights key challenges, emerging good practices and recommendations for more secure, inclusive and sustainable land use. Access to land is...
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. Alors même que le conflit s’intensifie, des milliers de personnes continuent de risquer de dangereuses traversées maritimes depuis la Corne de l’Afrique vers le Yémen, pour arriver dans un pays où l’insécurité et les conditions humanitaires se détériorent rapidement. La situati...
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. In Marsabit County, Kenya, prolonged drought is eating away at the food security, health and livelihoods of pastoralist families. With funding from the Kenya Humanitarian Fund, Concern Worldwide is supporting drought-affected communities with nutrition, water, sanitation and hy...
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. Barbados was among the countries in the Americas that, in 2010, committed to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis under PAHO’s Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections. In 2025, PAHO/WHO conducted a visit t...
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. The exceptional is no longer exceptional. We must prepare for everything. This summer, Europe fought raging wildfires together through our Union Civil Protection Mechanism. In Belgium, France, Spain, Serbia and beyond, planes crossed borders and European firefighters worked sid...
