As the world looks away, women suffer in silence
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )Donors’ brutal funding cuts to humanitarian aid are having a devastating impact on programmes that specifically support women and girls at risk of gender-based violence.
New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100.
Stories & Blogs FAO (News )Findings come from FAO’s upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool “ABC-Map”, further boosting capacity to assess and confront climate-related shocks.
Lesotho leads Africa in health innovation: pilots AFFLU Influenza Surveillance Platform.
Stories & Blogs WHO – Africa (News )Lesotho has become the first nation in the WHO African Region to pilot the Afro Influenza (AFFLU) surveillance platform.
“We have no one else.” Families on the brink in Nigeria’s worst hunger crisis in five years.
Stories & Blogs OCHA (News )Without adequate assistance, at least 280,000 severely malnourished children are at a high risk of death during this year’s lean season.
Acute food insecurity and malnutrition rise for sixth consecutive year in world’s most fragile regions – new report.
Stories & Blogs FAO (Story )In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger—an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023, while the number of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger reached a record high.
Professor Mohamed Yakub Janabi of Tanzania nominated as next director of WHO African Region.
Stories & Blogs WHO – Africa (News )The Special Session by Member States of the WHO African Region to elect the next Regional Director was agreed upon and organized following the sudden and untimely death of Regional Director-elect, Dr Faustine Ndugulile in November 2024.
Outbreak of variant type 1 polio in Madagascar declared over
Stories & Blogs WHO – Africa (News )Madagascar has successfully halted the transmission of variant poliovirus type 1, following recommendations from a rigorous, independent Outbreak Response Assessment (OBRA) to declare the outbreak closed.
