Ethiopia

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Reproductive health and family planning experts have agreed to scale up access to quality family planning and improved reproductive health services for young people.

Despite recent rainfall, dryness remains in parts of South Africa and Madagascar

Africa Weather Hazards

1. Seasonal rainfall during early November has helped alleviate early season moisture deficits across Somalia and eastern Kenya. However, deficits in southern Somalia and eastern Kenya remain.
   The forecast below-average rain next week is likely strengthen moisture deficits.

Italy is extending a lifeline to families in need through its Humanitarian Corridors Programme.

INTRODUCTION

This report is part of IOM’s effort to provide a comprehensive statistical overview of Libya’s current migration profile. DTM Libya’s Migrant statistical information package includes the below report, accompanied by a comprehensive user-friendly dataset and a key findings one pager.

CHAPTER 1: MIGRANT STOCK BASELINE

During October – November 2017 DTM Libya’s Mobility Tracking identified 432,574 migrants* across all 22 mantikas (regions) in Libya. Migrants were identified in 99 baladiyas and 531 muhallas.

Key figures

• 199,091 Libyans currently internally displaced (IDPs)

• 304,305 returned IDPs (returns registered in 2017)

• 44,306 registered refugees and asylumseekers in Libya

• 116,622 persons arrived in Italy by sea so far in 2017

• 987 monitoring visits to detention centres

• 950 asylum-seekers and refugees released from detention

Funding USD 77.2 M requested in 2017

Population Movements

Additional EU assistance of €15 million will help scale up the response to surging humanitarian needs in the drought-stricken country.

Over 142,000 people in ten countries will benefit; includes emergency responses in South Sudan and northern Nigeria

Over 142,000 people in ten countries will benefit from fourteen projects totaling $3.7 committed by Canadian Foodgrains Bank in November.

The projects are being implemented by Foodgrains Bank members ADRA Canada, Canadian Baptist Ministries, Emergency Relief and Development Overseas (ERDO), Mennonite Central Committee Canada, Presbyterian World Service & Development and World Renew, in collaboration with their local partners.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

At the beginning of 2017, progress continued towards each of the Endgame Plan’s four objectives. The world has never been closer to eradicating polio, with fewer cases in fewer areas of fewer countries than at any time in the past.

2017 in brief

7 décembre 2017 – Trente-sept pays, dont 29 se trouvant en Afrique, ont besoin d'une aide alimentaire externe, a mis en garde jeudi l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) dans son dernier rapport sur les 'Perspectives de récolte et la situation alimentaire'.

Pays nécessitant une aide alimentaire extérieure

This brief summarizes FEWS NET’s most forward-looking analysis of projected emergency food assistance needs in FEWS NET coverage countries. The projected size of each country’s acutely food insecure population (IPC Phase 3 and higher) is compared to last year and the recent five-year average and categorized as Higher ( p), Similar ( u), or Lower ( ). Countries where external emergency food assistance needs are anticipated are identified. Projected lean season months highlighted in red indicate either an early start or an extension to the typical lean season.

This paper discusses agricultural insurance subsidies in detail and draws upon available literature and case study experiences to propose some good practice guidelines for their design and implementation. Any insurance subsidy needs to be carefully designed to be “smart”, in the sense that it is cost effective in achieving its underlying purpose, minimizes disincentive problems, and does not become a growing financial burden on the government.

Strong cereal harvests are keeping global food supplies buoyant, but localised drought, flooding and protracted conflicts have intensified and perpetuated food insecurity, according to the new edition of FAO's Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. Some 37 countries, 29 of which are in Africa, require external assistance for food, according to the report.

Addis Ababa December 06/2017 National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) said over 17,000 metric tons of food was distributed for people displaced from Oromia and Somali regional states.

This was revealed today at the first quarter performance of this Ethiopian budget year to Natural Resources Standing Committee of the House of People's Representatives.

NDRMC Commissioner Mitiku Kassa said the provisions were made by the government, non-governmental organizations and the public.

DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD:

1,965 STRANDED MIGRANTS RETURNED HOME VIA CHARTERED FLIGHTS

175 STRANDED MIGRANTS RETURNED HOME VIA COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS

By Elizabeth Collett and Aliyyah Ahad

I. Introduction

East Africa’s economic growth is among the fastest in the world and its countries are becoming increasingly integrated and interdependent. USAID supports regional institutions, including the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and their member states to address issues that require collaboration between countries.

South Sudan

Despite the August 2015 peace agreement, ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan poses an imminent risk to populations who may be targeted on the basis of ethnicity and presumed political loyalties.