Category Archives: International

ETHIOPIA, August 6, 2021 - About 28.5 million people require humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia due to ongoing conflict in Tigray, Wollega, and Benishagul, desert locust invasion, natural disasters such as floods and droughts as well as the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the United Nations (UN), access to Tigray has already improved following [...]

NIGERIA, August 3, 2021 - 4.4 million people in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobo in northeastern Nigeria are facing the threat of famine due to food insecurity. Currently, 800,000 people are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) level 4, while 12.2 million people across the country are in IPC level 3. They are 300,000 children [...]

MADAGASCAR, August 3, 2021 – A total of 400,000 people in Madagascar are facing the threat of starvation as the region suffers its worst drought since 1981. Their crops were destroyed by locust infestations which make their agricultural sector suffered huge losses. Thousands of people have to eat unsafe foods such as locusts, cactus, leaves, [...]

AFGHANISTAN, August 3, 2021 - At least 14 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, and more than 9.5 million people are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) level 3. The food crisis keeps getting worse due to ongoing forty years conflict, natural disasters such as drought and flood, high food [...]

INDONESIA, July 30, 2021 – More than 1,000 death tolls were reported in Indonesia since July 16 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The numbers are consistently happening every day. Indonesia reported the highest new Covid cases daily in the world surpasses India and Brazil. Hospitals in the islands of Java and Bali had to be [...]

MAHARASHTRA, 27 July 2021 – At least 251 were killed while 50 injured causes by floods and landslides in western districts Maharashtra, India due to heavy rains since 22 July. Eight Covid-19 patients in Chiplun town hospital, Ratnagiri were killed after floodwaters entered the hospital area. Ten districts which reported severely affected are Kolhapur, Raigad, [...]