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Evite Blese Apre Yon Dezas
Rete lwen danje apre yon Siklòn
The report covers possible developments in Indonesia over the next 10 months (to end 2016). Four scenarios are outlined: Delayed Second Crop Harvest Delayed and Reduced Second Crop Harvest La Niña disrupts main rural sources of income Soaring rice prices The scenarios wer ... more

Damage Assessment of Muisne, Esmeraldas, Province, Ecuador (22 Apr 2016)

UNOSAT, International Charter Space and Major Disasters (2016) C1
This map illustrates satellite-detected, potential damaged structures in Muisne, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. The analyzed area is located approximately 30 km north of the 16 April 2016 Muisne earthquake mainshock epicenter. This analysis is carried out using Pléiades satellite image acquired 20 A ... more
Throughout the region, heavy rains that intensified in late April have resulted in excessive flooding, affecting more than half a million people; damaging infrastructure and livelihoods and caused over 370 deaths. Although the rains have also brought relief to some areas that have been affected by t ... more
IN NUMBERS 60 MILLION people affected globally at present. 32 MILLION people food insecure in Southern Africa. 10.2 MILLION people in Ethiopia need emergency food assistance. 50 PERCENT crop losses in Haiti due to El Niño-influenced drought.
Globally, millions of vulnerable people are experiencing increased hunger and poverty due to droughts, floods, storms and extreme temperature fluctuations as a result of a climatic occurrence: El Niño. This phenomenon is not an individual weather event but a climate pattern which occurs every two t ... more
El Niño is over but its impact on children is set to worsen as disease, malnutrition continue to spread In Eastern and Southern Africa alone, 26.5 million children are in need of aid
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Southern Africa • The impact of the drought in Southern Africa on WASH is already observed in places where the drought has been more acute and where WASH coverage was already low. • Only 61 per cent of the region’s population has access to safe ... more
Nutrition Situation of Children in Southern Africa • Almost 15 million people are food and nutrition insecure (including approximately 7.8 million children) in the 7 priority countries. • Approximately 36% of children in the 7 priority countries in Southern Africa are stunted and there ... more
Health Situation of Children in Southern Africa The impacts of El Niño and La Niña are expected to more than double the regular caseloads of childhood illnesses (malaria, cholera, pneumonia, measles and diarrhoea) in the most affected countries. • Diarrhoea cases among children are expec ... more