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August 2015 - On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency of international concern. To date, a total...
With CIDA support, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is mobilizing and coordinating humanitarian response to the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel, in...
March 2015 - Security and displacement throughout the region of West Africa have continued in 2015. Across the Sahel, insecurity and conflict have displaced 2.8 million people, a dramatic increase fro...
May 2015 – On 25 April, an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit Nepal near the capital city of Kathmandu. The government has reported that 30 out of 75 districts are affected in the Western and Central Reg...
More than four decades of internal violence has resulted in Colombia dealing with one of the largest displaced populations in the world, with more than three million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs...
February 2023 – The humanitarian situation in Turkey deteriorated significantly following powerful earthquakes that struck south-east Turkey on February 6 and February 20. The earthquakes and aftersh...
January 2022 – Ukraine, an estimated 2.9 million people require humanitarian assistance due to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, with women and the elderly bearing the brunt of the ongoing hostilities....
November 19, 2013 – On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made landfall in the Philippines, killing a reported 3,976 people and affecting 12.9 million people in 41 provinces....
On 2 May 2008, Category 3 cyclone Nargis made landfall in southern Burma before moving in a northeasterly direction to hit the capital of Rangoon. The official death toll as of 19 May is nearly 78,000...
The Latin America and Caribbean region perennially experiences multiple natural disasters resulting from the hurricane season, and is frequently subject to prolonged seasonal rains. Recent trends show...
Pakistan has witnessed one of the largest, fastest displacements the world has seen in the last 15 years, and certainly the largest in Pakistan's history. At the height of the conflict, the United Nat...
For over two decades, a civil war has raged in Sri Lanka between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Despite the end of hostilities in May 2009, the humanitarian situation...
The humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) is the result of more than a decade of internal conflict and growing criminal violence. Bandits continue to take advantage of the absence...
5 January 2011 - Pakistan recently experienced the worst monsoon flooding in its history. At its height, over 20 million people were affected, and over 7 million people were made homeless by the flood...
The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has reached over 59 million globally and doubled over the last ten years, with women, children and marginalized groups often facing the greatest impac...
October 2019 – Over the course of 2019, there has been increased insecurity in the northern and eastern regions of Burkina Faso, including attacks against civilians. This insecurity has contributed to...
March 2018 – The conflict between Boko Haram and Nigerian armed forces has devastated communities in north-eastern Nigeria. It is estimated that 10.2 million people will require humanitarian assistanc...
September 2014 – As ongoing fighting between armed groups and government forces unfold in Ukraine, people have been forced to flee their homes and have become increasingly vulnerable. It is reported t...
October 6, 2009 - Typhoon Ketsana struck the Philippines on September 26, causing massive destruction and flooding in Manila and other areas. As of October 6, an estimated 3.9 million people have been...
The Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap) was established in 2007 as an inter-agency surge capacity roster, whose pool of experts can be deployed on short notice to support humanitarian actors at t...
In 2007, OCHA established the ACE project, a research and development project with the overall goal to improve humanitarian action and accountability by strengthening the evidence-base for humanitaria...
Armed conflict between Pakistani government forces and armed opposition groups has escalated across Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and North West Frontier Province (NWFP) since...
The decades-long conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan government forces ended in May 2009. Approximately 300,000 civilians were displaced in the final stages of...
The Gender Standby Capacity Project (GenCap) was established in 2007 as an inter-agency surge capacity roster, whose pool of experts can be deployed on short notice to support humanitarian actors at t...
The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has reached over 59 million globally and doubled over the last ten years, with women, children and marginalized groups often facing the greatest impac...