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Displaying 159 of about 159 resultsAqaba - Nearly 300 government officials, scientists, aid workers and activists from across the Arab world are working together in Jordan to draw up the first joint regional platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR).
In the last three decades more than 164,000 people in the region have been killed by natural hazards, which caused damage estimated at US…
This paper synthesizes the consultations held at the regional, national and local levels throughout the Arab region on the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction, the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action. This report include the outcomes of various consultations held in the Arab region between 2012 and 2014, including during the First Ar…
War-torn Yemen has had its troubles compounded by climate change - and that is hurting one of the country's most precious commodities: Sidr honey
Thousands of families produce prized Sidr tree honey
Erratic rains, floods disrupt flowering seasons
Beekeepers, experts say climate change to blame
By Maya Gebeily
BEIRUT - After driving for days on t…
Twenty-four countries bordering the Indian Ocean will engage in Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 2018 (IOWave18), a large-scale tsunami exercise based on two scenarios that will be enacted on the 4th and 5th September respectively.
The scenario to be tested on 4 September will simulate a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the southern coast of Islamic Republi…
First estimates of the financial impact of internal displacement have been released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The Geneva-based organisation’s new report estimates the average annual economic costs of the consequences of internal displacement on health, shelter, education, security and income. Researchers assessed t…
By Beth Duff-Brown
There are 30 civil wars underway around the globe, where civilians are dealing with death and destruction as well as public health emergencies exacerbated by the deadly march of conflict.
Yemen is battling an unprecedented cholera outbreak which has killed more than 2,150 people this year, with another 700,000 suspected cases of th…
Analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health identifies 20 top recommendations to mitigate future cholera outbreaks in Yemen and other humanitarian emergencies, including call for end of attacks on health, water and sanitation infrastructure.
Between April 27, 2017 and July 1, 2018, more than one million suspected cases of ch…
By Jennifer J. Sara, Dominik Stillhart, and Ted Chaiban
People living in densely populated cities are supported by an intricate mesh of water, sanitation, health and electricity systems. When these systems are attacked and neglected for prolonged periods of time, when large numbers of people take refuge in cities –…
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a fund that supports country-led efforts to fight hunger, malnutrition, and poverty, today announced that seven projects in countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) will receive grants totaling $97.6 million. The new grants – to Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Côte…