Source: Minivan News
Country: Maldives
Severe flooding caused by heavy rainfall on Monday has forced several residents of Hoarafushi in Haa Alif atoll to evacuate their homes after flood waters damaged furniture and electrical wiring in 95 households.
Speaking to Minivan News today, Hoarafushi Island Council Chair Ahmed Mauroof said 95 households were flooded, affecting an “estimated 600 people.”
“The cost of the damage caused by flooding is expected to rise to...
Source: IRIN
Country: Myanmar
BANGKOK, 31 October 2012 (IRIN) - More than 75,000 people remain displaced in Myanmar's northern Kachin State following the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire between the Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), which has been fighting for greater autonomy for the past six decades.
About 54 percent of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) are in KIA-controlled areas, where access remains limited and humanitarian assistance is...
Source: International Organization for Migration
Country: Mali
Press Briefing Notes
Tuesday 30th October 2012
Spokesperson: Jean-Philippe Chauzy
IOM Mali is appealing for US$ 6 million to continue to provide a range of emergency relief services to internally displaced people (IDPs) and impoverished host families in Mali, who have to share their meagre resources with the displaced.
According to recent data released by the IASC Protection Cluster's...
Source: Refugees International
Country: Myanmar
Despite an abundance of natural resources, Rakhine State is the second-poorest state in Burma. The simmering tension that exists between the Rakhine and stateless Rohingya communities has been stoked by poverty for decades. However, in June 2012 that tension boiled over. What began as inter-communal violence was followed by a wave of state-sponsored persecution of the Rohingya, along with a refusal to allow humanitarian agencies...
Source: IRIN
Country: Myanmar
WAIMAW, 29 October 2012 (IRIN) - Ongoing sporadic fighting in northern Myanmar between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is pushing up the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs).
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the number of IDPs in Kachin and Shan states has increased to some 75,000, up from about 70,000 in August, following an intensification of clashes in some...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Pakistan
(Islamabad, 23 October 2012): Almost five million people have been affected by the 2012 flooding in southern Pakistan according to Government estimates – many of whom were still recovering from Pakistan’s unprecedented floods of 2010 and the severe 2011 flooding. In addition to the immediate response by the Government, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners distributing stocks throughout...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone
CERF releases more than US$34.2 million for West and Central Africa on third Quarter, 55 per cent for DRC
The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated a total of US$34,263,764 to nine countries of West and Central...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Syrian Arab Republic
20 September 2012: Conditions in Syria continue to deteriorate as the civil unrest spreads and deepens. Some 2.5 million people now need humanitarian assistance, according to United Nations estimates. Civilians, including children and women, bear the brunt of the violence. Nearly 1 million people have fled their homes and are staying with host families or in informal settlements, such as...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
26 September 2012: An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC) has killed 32 people in Orientale Province in north-eastern Congo, according to the
World Health Organization (WHO). There are another 82 suspected cases in the country.
Ebola is a highly contagious virus that causes massive internal bleeding and kills up...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: World
(New York, 13 September 2012): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of seven new members of the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the United Nations humanitarian fund.
The CERF Advisory Group is charged with providing policy guidance to the Secretary-General, and expert advice on the use of the Fund and its impact, through the...