Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Colombia
HIGHLIGHTS
• The number of IDPs increased by 131 per cent compared with September’s estimated figure (2,326). Between January and October 2012, over 40,000 people massively fled their homes due to the armed conflict.
• There was an increase in reports of security incidents affecting humanitarian access, confinements of communities and infractions against medical personnel, equipment...
Source: Government of Sudan, World Health Organization
Country: Sudan (the)
Highlights
• Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) has received the initial 800,000 doses of yellow fever vaccine on Friday, 16 November 2012, from the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine (ICG) to conduct an emergency response vaccination campaign in Darfur. The remaining doses from the commitment of 2.4 million doses will arrive today, 18 November 2012.
• The ten day...
Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: Thailand
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By Nattha Keenapan
BANGKOK, Thailand, 19 November 2012 – Natthasit Muangsawang, 11, is familiar with flooding. His home is inundated almost every year during the rainy season.
But, after the massive floods of 2011 swept away his books, desk, toys and other belongings, he was given a chance to speak out about his own experience during the floods for the first time.
“I was bored [during the floods...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Country Team in Cuba
Country: Cuba
Hurricane Sandy hit the eastern region of Cuba hard. It passed through the country on 25 October, 2012 as a category 2 Hurricane (approaching category 3) in a five hours span. Sustained winds reached 200 km/h as Sandy lashed Cuba´s second and third most populated provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Holguin, respectively.
340,000 people were evacuated as a preventative...
Source: IRIN
Country: Myanmar
BANGKOK, 16 November 2012 (IRIN) - Five months after communal violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine State, the plight of the 800,000 Muslim Rohingya there has worsened: Renewed violence in late October left more than 100,000 displaced, according to the government.
Clashes between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in June 2012 razed homes and places of worship in northern parts of the state, killed an estimated 80 and displaced...
Source: Government of Myanmar
Country: Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw, 14 Nov - Chairman of the work committee for rehabilitation in quake-hit areas, Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham called for allocating the expenditure for the livelihood and rehabilitation of the victims from the disasters fund and called on ministries for funding the rehabilitation tasks.
At the coordination meeting on rehabilitation in quake-hit areas at the President Office here today, the Vice-President also...
Source: IFRC
Country: Georgia
CHF 122,954 has been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Georgia Red Cross Society (GRCS) in delivering immediate assistance to some 400 households (1,800 people).
Summary: The Central and Eastern part of Georgia were severely affected by rains on May 12th and 13th 2012. Multiple landslides followed the heavy rains and at least 5 people were killed in the capital of Georgia Tbilisi. Over 3,200...
Source: Emirates News Agency
Country: United Arab Emirates (the), World
The UAE has donated a total of US$2,194000 for the United Nation's development activities in 2013.
The donation was announced at the 2012 United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities, held at the United Nation's HQ in New York.
US$324000 of the UAE's donation will go to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), US$200,000.00 to the United Nations High Commissioner for...
Source: CARE
Country: Myanmar
Thousands of people affected by Sunday’s earthquake in Myanmar are being provided with shelter and family kits as CARE International’s emergency response team begins a second distribution to those most in need.
More than 5,000 people have been affected by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on Sunday morning.
Brian Agland, CARE’s country director in Myanmar, said the earthquake severely affected Singu and...
Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: Myanmar
BANGKOK, 13 November 2012 - Since unrest broke out in Rakhine State in Myanmar in June, UNICEF has provided urgently needed help to save severely malnourished children, to prevent water borne diseases and to provide basic necessities to displaced children and their families.
Heightened tension between communities and the isolated location of some affected townships has posed access and security challenges, but UNICEF continues...