Floods – Humanitarian Situation in numbers, 15 May 2022242 Cholera cases with 10 deathsMore than 995,000 people affected by floods including 130,000 under-five children need humanitarian assistance85,888 cases of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemi…
Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy …
New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”The payments are part of a package of ne…
AbstractIt is often taken as a given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empirica…
From airlines in Nigeria to shoppers in Malawi, Africans are feeling the impact of the Ukraine crisis in wrenching increases in the price of fuel, grain and fertiliser.Global oil prices scaled decade-long highs of more than $100 a barrel shortly after …
The World Health Organization says authorities in Mozambique have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s northeastern Tete province has contracted the disease. It becomes the second case of wild po…