In December, armed clashes, cattle raids and fighting between youth groups drove humanitarian needs in Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Western and Central Equatoria. Flood-affected communities in Upper Nile became increasingly vulnerable as a result of clashe…
Gambella The International Organization for Migration, IOM, has assisted 700 South Sudanese refugees with onward transportation to the Gore-Shembola and Tsore refugee camps in Assosa situated in Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, some 800 kilometers fr…
Following the alert from Mapel, Wau State, the Ministry of Health investigated the alert case of unknown illnesses and would like to inform the general public that the sample tested negative for Ebola Virus Disease and other forms of Viral Hemorrhagic …
Five people, including two soldiers, were killed as Sudanese troops crushed a rebellion launched by agents of the country’s long-feared security agency against a restructuring plan, officials and medics said Wednesday.On Tuesday, heavy gunfire broke ou…
SITUATION UPDATEResponse activities have been further scaled-up across the affected locations where floods devastated the lives and livelihoods of some 908,000 people. By the end of 2019, humanitarians had reached more than 789,000 people with over 10,…
KHARTOUM/JUBA For the first time since 2011, education supplies reached Kauda in South Kordofan. Through collaboration between UNICEF and WFP in Sudan and in neighboring South Sudan, 800 children can recommence learning. The supplies, including school-…
BackgroundThe Logistics Cluster facilitates the coordination of the logistics response in support of the humanitarian community. Furthermore, it provides information management products to improve the decision making of humanitarian organisations in So…
Weekly Overview? Lasu and Tokori FMPs remain temporarily inactive due to security concerns. DTM continues to operate 22 additional EVD-dedicated FMPs on the borders with DRC, Uganda and CAR, of which six are operated in cooperation with DTM Uganda on t…
In the third quarter (July to September) of 2019, Inter Agency Cash Working Group (IA � CWG) partners reported the transfer of US$ 4.0million of both Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) to 137,000 households (827,000 individuals) in South Sudan. Seventy …
Khartoum, Sudan The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, today visited Kauda in the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, marking a new milestone in the gradual…
Highlights An estimated 490,000 children are still at risk from the impact of flooding that washed away crops, destroyed homes and contaminated water supplies. UNICEF has appealed for US$ 10 million to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of children and…
WASHINGTON – The killing of Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike Friday is a devastating blow to pro-Iranian militias across the Middle East, some experts said, warning that the militia groups could turn the region into further chaos through retaliatio…
A Sudanese military plane crashed in the western Darfur region, killing all 16 people on board including two women and two children, the military said. A Sudanese employee of the World Food Program and his family were among the casualties.Several offi…
At least 48 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in tribal fighting in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur, the Red Crescent said on Thursday.The armed clashes broke out on Sunday night in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur state, and continued until M…
The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Final boundary between the Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan has not yet been determined. Inter …
A court in Sudan on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against Sudan’s longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year.The death of protester Ahmed…
A total of 2,231 people have died out of 3,373 declared cases of Ebola in the current epidemic in the DR Congo, according to the agency overseeing the response, health officials said Sunday.Deadly unrest in the fragile state has hampered the fight agai…
Two months after a pipeline ruptured and spilled crude oil over a wide swath of South Sudan’s former Unity State, residents and government officials are grappling with a new pipeline break and the subsequent impact of leaks on public safety and the env…
Highlights Uganda remains Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) free as of November 2019, although the risk of EVD importation remains very high given the porous border shared with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 1.2 million of the refugee and a…
JUBA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in South Sudan welcomes a contribution of US$500,000 from the Republic of Korea as overall humanitarian needs are deepening in the country with 7.5 million people needing various kinds of support in …
KEY HIGHLIGHTSa. Number of Alerts reported during the week: 4b. Four alerts were reported, from Juba (1), Maridi (1), Yambio (1), and Yei (1) since the last situation report; of these one met case definition, samples tested negative for EVD and other h…
MONTHLY OVERVIEWDTM Four FMPs (Bazi, Okaba, Lasu and Tokori) temporarily closed operations as a precautionary measure following the 27 October incident in Isebi, Morobo County. Of these, Bazi and Okaba resumed operations on 18 November while Lasu and T…
Khartoum, Sudan � The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, accompanied by teams from WFP’s Sudan and South Sudan operations and leaders of the UN country team in Sudan have achieved a significant breakthrough in …
WEEKLY OVERVIEW? DTM and MHU jointly facilitated two participatory mapping workshops led by Ministry of Health officials in Juba and Yei, with the aim of informing the 2020 National Preparedness Plan for EVD. The workshops validated Flow Monitoring Poi…
In Numbers4.54 million people facing acute food insecurity from September to December 2019 (IPC)2.1 million acutely malnourished women and children (HRP)1.85 million people assisted by WFP in October 20191.47 million internally displaced people (OCHA)2…
Madrid – Innovative partnerships, investment and technical exchange through South-South and Triangular Cooperation are critical for countries especially in the global South to address climate change and achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.Th…
The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future. WFP fears more than 5.5 million people could be going hungry in early 2020, and the UN agency …
ROME/JUBA The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is in a race against time to mobilize vital funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan as hunger advances on a population in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Catastrophic flooding over r…
The recent flooding has made access to healthcare difficult from our village to Mankien town as we have been cut off because of the devastating floods, said Mrs Angelina Nyapiny Ter, a 68-year-old woman from Pibor village.Thanks to the World Health Org…
This is the third in a series of three briefing papers that form part of the Mind the Gap: Bridging the Research, Policy, and Practice Divide to Enhance Livelihood Resilience in Conflict Settings project. The first two briefing papers accompany regiona…
