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More than a year after vaccines were introduced, only 52 countries have met the 70% target, 69 have yet to achieve 40% coverage, and 21 countries have not yet achieved even 10% coverage.
]]>Of these, 189,000 are girls who face the risk of early marriages and Female Genital Mutilation. The 231,000 boys risk being recruited into dangerous and illegal activities.
]]>Violence has internally displaced more than 1.8 million people, almost 10% of the country’s population, a number that keeps rising every day. Many of those displaced now rely on aid to survive.
]]>While casualties from airstrikes, shellfire and shooting reduced significantly since the start of the truce in April, the number of injuries and deaths by mines and unexploded ordnance remained high.
]]>Conflict and displacement, compounded by extreme weather events, has led to increased protection needs for thousands of affected refugees, internally displaced people and members of host communities.
]]>For the first time since the introduction of the IPC, more than 20,000 people in Ghor are facing catastrophic levels of hunger because of a harsh winter and disastrous agricultural conditions.
]]>In the Somali region, 930,000 people need emergency and reproductive health support and more than 565,000 have reduced access to protection services, including women, children and GBV survivors.
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UNICEF's education response integrates mental health and psychosocial support, as well as explosive ordnance risk education (EORE), targeting children who are most at risk.
]]>After weeks of living largely underground with dwindling food, water and medicine, more than 170 civilians arrived in Zaporizhzhia on Sunday in the third safe passage operation.
]]>Children’s needs, both inside Syria and in neighbouring countries, are growing. Many families struggle to make ends meet. Prices of basic supplies including food are skyrocketing.
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Given the congestion of displaced populations in high ground areas and contamination of the safe water sources, the humanitarian response has been scaled up to avert catastrophic consequences.
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Between 3 and 4 May, localized flooding was reported across large parts of Afghanistan, killing 13 people and injuring eight. An estimated 1,270 houses were either destroyed or damaged.
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The UNSCO's report warned of an uncoordinated approach to address the current political, economic and security challenges which only risks perpetuating a continuous cycle of crisis management.
]]>This funding will go towards cash as well as immediate food relief for families in conflict-hit areas in Ukraine, and to displaced people from Ukraine in Moldovan transit sites and reception centres.
]]>The agreement will expand the assistance already provided to 170,000 people through cash. Since the beginning of April, WFP has transferred nearly $11 million in local currency.
]]>This funding needs to reach frontline responders in a timely manner both in Ukraine and in neighbouring countries. We urge donors to simplify administrative procedures for local partners and INGOs.
]]>Since November 2021, parts of the Amazonas have faced two devastating earthquakes and extreme rainfall, which triggered a series of landslides and severe flooding, affecting more than 10,000 people.
]]>Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from earlier years.
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Spiralling inflation has forced people to devise survival strategies such as eating less, selling fuel aid to buy food, burning old shoes to keep warm and skipping urgent medical procedures, says NRC.
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Conflict, weather extremes and economic shocks were drivers behind the rising acute food insecurity in 2021. A shift towards better prevention, anticipation and targeting is needed to address food crises.
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