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25 Feb Colombia – Reduction in Fiscal Risk by Insuring 40 Billion Dollars Road Infrastructure under Concession
Colombia has the highest rate of recurrent disasters due to natural phenomenon in Latin America with more than 600 disasters per year. The...
23 Feb Anger, fear run deep after months of ethnic violence in western Ethiopia
Many of more than 100,000 displaced people are still too scared to return home, despite new efforts to forge peace in Benishangul-Gumuz....
23 Feb Conflict Escalation in Ma'rib Displaces 8,000 Yemenis in Two Weeks
This press release was updated on 25 February 2021 Ma'rib – Increased hostilities in Yemen’s Ma'rib governorate have led to the displacement of at least 8,000 people in recent weeks, bringing the total number of displacements in that part of the country to more than 116,000. Humanitarian partners estimate that as...
23 Feb Over 3.6 Million People Reached by IOM in Ethiopia in 2020 for Prevention and Mitigation of COVID-19
Addis Ababa – The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on immense challenges for Ethiopia, a country whose already strained healthcare system faces enormous challenges. With a population of 110 million people there is only an estimated one doctor to 10,000 people in the country. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported...
22 Feb The case against cash
As more humanitarian cash distributions become cashless, the privacy of aid recipients must be part of the calculation....
19 Feb Vaccine greed, a Yemen offensive, and an Afghan deadline: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues....
02 Feb The Eurasian Economic Union: Repaving Central Asia’s Road to Russia?
In recent decades Russia has been increasingly reliant on Central Asian migrant workers. Those workers, in turn, have sent back remittances that have been crucial for their countries of origin. Since 2015, many of these ex-Soviet countries have come together in the Eurasian Economic Union...