Somalia and three other countries desperately need aid to save more than 20 million people from starvation and diseases, the United Nations said. UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien pleaded with the world to come to the rescue of Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia.
Category: South Sudan
Cholera reaches South Sudan’s second-largest city, UN says
The United Nations says South Sudan’s cholera outbreak has reached the country’s second-largest city, as the number of cases nationwide rises beyond 5,500. The U.N. humanitarian agency said Friday that cases of the sometimes fatal gastrointestinal disease have been confirmed in Malakal, which has been ravaged by the country’s three-year civil war.
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Three weeks ago, an outbreak of Avian influenza was confirmed along the shores of Lake Victoria at Lutembe bay in Wakiso and Bukakata in Masaka district. South Sudan Livestock Minister Martin Daku sharing a moment with Uganda’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry, And Fisheries Vincent Ssempijja during a press conference on bird flu at the Ministry head offices in Entebbe Wakiso district.
UN says 1.4 million children at imminent risk of death in famines
… The number of children with severe acute malnutrition is expected to reach 450,000 this year, UNICEF said. – Doctors who feel burned out or overwhelmed by the demands of work are less likely to view their work with patients as a …
Beware: Four Refugee Myth Busters
Quietly and without fanfare, violence, or struggle 1,600 to 1,800 refugees are arriving at the transit sites from South Sudan every day – day after day. They line up quietly waiting for Medical Team International staff, working with translators, to poke at them and their children and determine their bill of health.