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The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in SADC: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

10/05/2022

8 documents

56 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portugese, Swahili

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Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the extreme inequality in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, and pushed millions into poverty. The economic crisis continues due to the obscene global vaccine inequality. As of end March 2022, a dismal 14% of SADC citizens had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared with 65.5% in the United States […]

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Briefing note

From Crisis to Catastrophe: South Sudan’s man-made crisis – and how the world must act now to prevent catastrophe in 2015

06/10/2014

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Food security

Overview

More than two million people are facing severe food insecurity in South Sudan. Famine has been narrowly avoided in 2014. As the dry season begins, the brutal conflict that provoked this disaster is about to get worse. Without an end to the fighting – and unless more aid can be delivered to those who need […]

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Media briefing

Risk of Relapse: Somalia crisis update

07/05/2014

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

With a third of Somalia’s population in need of humanitarian aid, the country is clearly in severe crisis. Although the humanitarian statistics are better than in previous years, most aspects of everyday life for people fall far below acceptable living standards. 2.9 million Somalis are in humanitarian crisis 50,000 children are severely malnourished Women in […]

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Briefing note

Afghanistan at a Crossroads: Recommendations for the UN Security Council on the 2014 UNAMA mandate

31/01/2014

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

As Afghanistan prepares for presidential elections and the withdrawal of international forces, insecurity continues to spread across the country, with a devastating impact on civilians. The role of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in advancing human rights, supporting humanitarian access and promoting peace and reconciliation efforts must be strengthened – particularly as it […]

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Briefing note

Keeping the Lifeline Open: UK remittances and markets in Somalia

09/09/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Somali migrants around the world send approximately $1.3bn each year to friends and families at home – more than total humanitarian aid to Somalia. Of these remittances, more than £100m million comes from the United Kingdom. This briefing shows how banks and regulators are in danger of inadvertently undermining this lifeline and driving it underground, […]

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The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in SADC: Fighting austerity and the pandemic

From Crisis to Catastrophe: South Sudan’s man-made crisis – and how the world must act now to prevent catastrophe in 2015

Risk of Relapse: Somalia crisis update

Afghanistan at a Crossroads: Recommendations for the UN Security Council on the 2014 UNAMA mandate

Keeping the Lifeline Open: UK remittances and markets in Somalia