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Urgent Support Needed for Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Households Impacted by the Desert Locust Crisis during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The worst outbreak of desert locusts in 70 years threatens to decimate rangeland and crops in the Horn of Africa and potentially the Sahel. There is risk of a Rift Valley Fever outbreak that further threatens livestock and human health. COVID-19 is already disrupting markets, driving up food prices, squeezing small businesses and limiting livestock trade in addition to the direct health impacts. Ongoing conflict…

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Helping Flood-affected Households to recover

Bardera town experiences cyclical river flooding as a result of heavy rains in the Juba Basin and the Ethiopian highlands.…

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Protecting agro-pastoral livelihoods: a case of Kerio ward, Turkana County

Lebanon Articles

Update on ACTED’s Response to the Beirut Explosion

As rescue workers continue to trawl through the ruins of Beirut’s port area for survivors three days after the blast…

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Building a community center to facilitate community information sharing

Baidoa currently hosts the largest IDP settlements in South-Central Somalia, as a result of the protracted conflict and consecutive shocks that caused internal displacements. According to IOM’s monthly movement trend tracking, the influx of new arrivals in the past six months in Baidoa has surpassed more than 16,500 households, creating 44 new IDP camps. The majority of people fled their areas of origin due to…

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ACTED staff interviewing a camp leader on the importance of the community center, ACTED Somalia 2020
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Increased access to safe, sufficient and reachable drinking water

Through this project, ACTED’s team in Somalia are aiming to improve access to safe, clean and sufficient drinking water for…

Chad Articles

Photo Story: Surviving the lean season in Chad

Acted Global Statements

Nigeria: ACTED and the REACH team condemn the assassination of their team member and four other humanitarian workers and captives

Yemen Articles

ACTED celebrates World Bee Day with beekeepers in Ibb

The production of honey in Yemen has been a tradition since the 10th century and is an important way of…

Afghanistan Articles

Video: Update on the current status of Covid-19 in Afghanistan

While infection rates in Afghanistan at first appeared meagre in comparison to other States, the month of May saw an…

Yémen Articles

La guerre au Yémen continue de faire rage et entre dans sa sixième année sans qu'une fin claire ne soit…

Yemen Articles

As inflation soars across Yemen, ACTED provides immediate cash assistance

The war in Yemen continues to rage into its sixth year with no clear end in sight. Communities have had to adjust to the uncertainty of finding work, food and security for their families. With little prospect for improvement in the situation, a growing portion of the population is falling further into food insecurity as public resources dry up and jobs become increasingly scarce.

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Chad Articles

11 rehabilitated health centres in Chad

Yemen Articles

Providing new shelters to Yemenis affected by flash floods

Isolated in the low rising mountains on the Gulf of Aden, Yemeni families displaced from Al Hudaydah as a result…

Lebanon

Securing access to basic hygiene products for Lebanon’s most vulnerable

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