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Highlights In Burundi, the security situation remains highly volatile.

In the Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, conflict and violence are exacerbating the effects of climate change on people's food security. The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting 1.4 million people across the three countries — 950,000 of whom have been displaced by conflict — with vital food assistance.

More than a year after foreign forces withdrew and the Taliban took power across the whole of Afghanistan, the country’s economy has withered and development aid and assets are still largely frozen, leaving the country facing its most serious risk of famine in 20 years. Millions of families have almost no way to cope with another harsh winter.

Several months after a devastating earthquake hit the southern part of the country, killing more than 2,000 people, destroying livelihoods and damaging countless schools and infrastructure such as roads and bridges, people from all places and backgrounds are rebuilding their lives.

  The emotion is visible on Audrey’s face as she hangs up the phone. She’s just spoken to her uncle – one of her only remaining family members – for the first time in years. Audrey was just 21 year old when her family were separated while fleeing armed conflict in Bria, eastern Central African Republic (CAR), in 2017. Hundreds of people were killed, including Audrey’s parents.

The sheer vastness of the refugee camp at Gado-Badzere, 30 km from Cameroon’s eastern border with the Central African Republic — aka CAR — is a humbling sight.  That’s where the refugees filing in on a rainy January morning hail from. Family heads lead the way as staff from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) take people’s names.

Highlights  Thousands of people have been victim of a surge of violence near Beni, in North Kivu province.

In Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding that is receiving little global attention. More than 2,000 people have reportedly been killed since October 2017 and the number of people driven from their homes has increased fourfold since February. Conflict kicked off in 2017 when non-state armed groups attacked police stations in the town of Mocimboa da P

While there were no catastrophic events like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, there were several large natural disasters in 2006, for example the May earthquake in Indonesia that killed thousands of people. There was also a significant number of smaller disasters. Fourteen different sudden natural disasters required funds from the Immediate Response Account.

The Pakistan floods – which inundated a third of the country - claimed over 1,700 lives, uprooted eight million people, and destroyed homes, schools, health facilities, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.