10,000 Angolans flee to Namibia due to drought
Friday April 30 2021
A field is seen next to houses in a village near Lubango in Angola on February 16, 2020. The Huila province in Angola was recently hit by a drought that dried up most water sources and devastated crops across the southern Africa region, where some 45 million people face hunger. PHOTO | OSVALDO SILVA | AFP
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Angola shares a 1,100km border with Namibia in the provinces of Cunene, Namibe and Cuando Cubango.
The border is porous and allows easy illegal crossings.
According to the Namibian Ambassador to Angola, Patrick Nandago, the refugees are from Huíla, Cunene, Namibe and Cuando Cubango provinces.
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 5:26 am
SUVA, Fiji – On 26 April, the United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) flew vital medical supplies to Kiribati via
the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service, which WFP manages on
behalf of the humanitarian community. This air delivery
demonstrates WFP’s continued support to the COVID-19
response in the region.
On 22 April, the Government of
Kiribati raised an urgent request for intravenous (IV)
fluids which was about to run out in its hospitals. WFP
responded immediately - together with the Australian
Government who procured 6 metric tonnes of IV fluid within
24 hours. The supplies were delivered by WFP to Tarawa via
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Famine looms in southern Madagascar, UN s food agency says
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Famine is looming in southern Madagascar, where children are starving after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Amer Daoudi, senior director of WFP operations globally, speaking from Antananarivo, Madagascar, said he had visited villages where people had resorted to eating locusts and leaves.