The worst desert locust outbreak in decades threatens food security across East Africa
29/01/2020
Highlights:
The worst desert locust outbreak in 25 years has caused significant pasture losses across East Africa, mainly in agro-pastoral areas of eastern Ethiopia, central Somalia and northern Kenya.
As sustained locust reproduction is expected until June 2020, the outbreak has a [...]
January - March 2020
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Operationalising the humanitarian-development-peace nexus through the promotion of intercommunity coexistence
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One of the 25 selected winning development projects/SDG solutions at the Expo 2020 Dubai Global Best Practice Programme
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Good Practices of integrated resilience activities in the G5 Sahel
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The World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling-up investments to build community assets, promote education, improve nutrition and health, and create jobs for young people in the G5 Sahel countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. The aim is [...]