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At least 1,400 people were killed and more than 1,800 injured, according to official figures after the first day of earthquakes on 7 October – most of them women and children. An estimated 25,000 buildings have been destroyed.

“It will provide an urgently needed lifeline to some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, who have been cut off from water, food, medicine, and other essentials for 13 days. But it is only a small beginning and far from enough. More than 1.6 million people in Gaza are in critical need of humanitarian aid.

Rubkona, a county where floodwaters have permanently submerged entire communities or trapped them on small islands since 2021, is at the very frontline of the flooding and projected to face exceptionally high levels and severity of malnutrition by April 2024. Data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) shows more than 1.6 million children under five years of age are expect

The project aims to mitigate the risks posed by climate shocks and their impact on communities, while enhancing food security for those most at risk. Its primary goals are to engage communities to reduce disasters risks, ensure sustainable livelihoods all year-around and strengthen national and local disaster management systems.

Their call comes ahead of the COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace which will seek transformative measures on the frontlines of the climate crisis and will be officially launched on 3 December at COP28.    The Global Stocktake, the first report card on the Paris Agreement, has shown that the world is coming dangerously close to permanently passing the critical 1.5°

With funding from USAID, WFP will support NDMO arrange transportation like ships to deliver critical relief like food, tents, health and sanitation items to the affected areas.

Most families crossing the border are arriving hungry, desperate and in need of immediate support. WFP continues to supply all arriving families with fortified biscuits and cash to buy food or other basic necessities.

The OPEC Fund Director-General Abdulhamid Alkhalifa met with WFP on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai and expressed the OPEC Fund’s support in combating global food insecurity and hunger.

It’s a week since Bashir Abdi, his wife and nine children fled to the Iftin camp for displaced people, outside the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia.  “I was forced to move by the flash floods.

In southern Madagascar, up to 80% of the population relies on small-scale and often rainfed agriculture. Consecutive drought episodes have decimated crop yields, livestock productivity and depleted water sources.