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Against a backdrop of mounting humanitarian needs, especially for families displaced by the fighting, official COVID-19 case figures as of 27 May stand at 253 cases and 50 deaths.

At a time when the news is awash with analysis and assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 in what are typically peaceful and stable settings, this brief considers some of the potential impacts and implications of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerability and social protection responses to displacement in East Africa.

An El Nino event active since March 2015 will almost certainly last through 2015 and is likely to extend into early 2016.  The intensity of this event is increasing with a peak expected in the last quarter of 2015 and there is a significant chance that it may become one of the strongest events of the past 30 years. The timing of the event means that it will influence all growing seasons of