2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Waterborne diseases
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Fourteen people have died of cholera in Nigeria
LAGOS – Fourteen people have died of cholera in northeast Nigeria, with most of the victims living in a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram violence, the health ministry said Saturday. "Up to September
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CM Sarbananda Sonowal asks deputy commissioners to file flood survey reports
GUWAHATI: Chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has asked all deputy commissioners (DCs) to reach out to flood-affected people to ascertain their loss and immediately submit a survey report for the government
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Sudan: Cholera Still Spreading in Sudan- UN Mission Visits Central Darfur
Darfur / El Gezira / Sennar / Northern State — At least ten Darfuris died of cholera last week. A joint UN-Sudanese mission visited Central Darfur "to report on gaps and challenges in the Acute Watery
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Mobilizing communities to fight a severe cholera outbreak in South Sudan
It started around 6 p.m. one evening, shortly after supper. Regina Lotem had been warned about it for weeks and even though she tried to prevent it, she knew it might happen. Her five-year-old son Juma
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Worsened by Poor Water Infrastructure, New DRC Cholera Outbreak Claims Mostly Children
Worsened by Poor Water Infrastructure New DRC Cholera Outbreak Claims Mostly Children KANYARUCHINYA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - In the absence of rain, a cholera outbreak has already claimed 17 lives
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Sudan: Darfur Displaced Call On Sudan Govt. to Declare Cholera Epidemic
Nyala / El Mahas — Cholera continues to spread in South Darfur and Northern State. The leadership of the Darfur Displaced and Refugees Association has urged the Sudanese authorities to officially declare
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Sudan: Cholera Spreads in Northern Sudan
Halfa / Dalgo — Cholera has extended to the north of Sudan and reached Abri in Halfa locality, where four cases were reported on Monday. A hospital recorded more infected cases coming from the gold mines
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Community engagement helps mitigate acute watery diarrhea situation in Ethiopia's Somali region
Engaging communities allowed response teams to understand the power relations, influencers and preferred communication channels in the Somali Region.After months of prevention and response activities by
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Yemen conflict: Cholera risk for more than a million children
More than a million children in Yemen are at high risk of dying from cholera, says Save the Children. The charity warns that the children are severely malnourished, and living in some of the areas of
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Sudan: Cholera Still Spreading in Eastern Sudan, Decreasing in El Gezira
Eastern Sudan / El Gezira — Six people died of cholera in Halfa El Jadeeda in Kassala state last week. Four new cases were recorded. The isolation unit at the Singa Hospital in Sennar admitted 42 new cases