WFP Lesotho Country Brief, January 2021
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In Numbers
9,804 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lesotho including 210 deaths and 2,888 recoveries (10 February 2021)
US$ 10.8 m six months (February 2021–July 2021) net funding requirements
343,410 People targeted in 2021
Operational Updates
• On 02 February 2021, following the Right Honourable
Prime Minister’s speech on COVID-19 mitigation
measures, Lesotho moved back to Orange colour
coding stage, implying no movements across borders
except for essential goods and services.
• All ten districts of Lesotho are currently classified to be
in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 3
(crisis) or worse, with some 582,000 people in rural
areas and a further 184,000 people in urban contexts
experiencing acute food insecurity. Food prices remain
Urgent support needed in Yemen as malnutrition rises in children
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Six years since the outbreak of conflict in Yemen and Yemeni men, women and children are struggling to survive.
For local families, simply getting enough food to eat has become increasingly difficult across the country. People’s livelihoods have been destroyed by the conflict and opportunities to earn a living devastated by the fallout. With a lack of money and food, a staggering 9.6 million people are one step away from famine.
With the ongoing impact of the war on local services and the economy, growing up in Yemen is immensely challenging. For babies and young children in particular, levels of malnutrition are incredibly high. This has increased with each year of conflict, and 2020 has seen the biggest deterioration in this situation.
UNICEF Afghanistan Humanitarian Situation Report No. 3: Year-End 2020
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Highlights
Of the almost 7 million children aged under-five in Afghanistan, an estimated 3.1 million are acutely malnourished in 2021. This implies a staggering 1 in 2 children under-five are in need of acute malnutrition treatment services to save their lives. About 14% of the total acute malnourished burden in Afghanistan is attributed to COVID-19 (HNO, 2021).
One out of two children are not fully immunised in Afghanistan. Data show that 50% of all health facilities providing vaccination services, reported a decrease of 30% or more of the uptake of immunization services due to conflict and COVID-19. This further led to the outbreaks of measles affecting more than 10,500 children (HIMS, 2020).