This week 's report covers the following sectors/countries:
Sectors: Agriculture, Coordination and Support Services, Education, Food, Health, Refugees and IDPs, Security, Shelter and Non-food Items, Water & Sanitation
A-Highlights
B-Middle East,Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, Kyrghizstan, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Russian Federation (Caucasus)
C-East & Central Africa: Burundi, Congo, DR, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
D-West Africa: Benin, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Togo
E-Southern Africa: Regional, Angola, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
F-Asia: Bangladesh, Korea (DPR), Nepal (G)
G-Latin America and Caribbean: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua
(A) Highlights
- WFP will start distributing 53 tons of food to refugees from Togo, sheltering in camps in Benin.
- An additional 690,000 beneficiaries have been identified as in need of emergency food aid for five or six months in Ethiopia.
- WFP is providing supplementary feeding as well as logistics and communication support in Ethiopia's flood affected Somali region.
- Floods in north eastern Kenya caused logistical constraints, affecting WFP support to Dadaab refugee camps.
- Overall in Kenya, some 83,000 tons of food aid is needed to ensure minimum food security for 1.6 million drought-affected people, including 420,000 schoolchildren.
- In Bahr El Ghazal, Sudan, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) released twenty-four trucks carrying WFP food on 27 April, following detention since 15 April.
- WFP is increasing support for host communities in eastern Chad.
- WFP is assessing the need to assist people affected by severe floodings in Georgia.
(i) In the light of current unrest in Kyrgyzstan, WFP and other UN agencies will be fielding a mission next week to strenghten integrated needs assessment and preparedness.
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