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2024 Yemen floods. The 2024 Yemen floods were a series of severe weather events caused by heavy rainfall that struck Yemen in July and August 2024, resulting in widespread devastation across multiple provinces. The floods led to at least 61 deaths, [1] the displacement of thousands, and extensive damage to infrastructure and agriculture. [2]
The World Health Organization (WHO) supported trauma teams and ambulances, set up epidemiological early warning detection points, supplied fuel to hospitals, worked with health authorities to prepare rainfall and floods preparedness and response plan, provided the Central Public Health Laboratory with equipment, trained laboratory technicians ...
[9] [10] The health effects of climate change are increasingly a matter of concern for the international public health policy community. In 2009, a publication in the general medical journal The Lancet stated that "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century". [11] The World Health Organization reiterated this in 2015 ...
The Heths’ saga reflects a grim truth: Climate change is directly adding to emergencies caused by extreme heat, wildfires, floods, tropical storms, and hurricanes, as the World Health ...
ensuring food security. redistributing water to dry regions. preventing natural disasters and flooding. preventing fires and air pollution. providing shelter and food to billions of people (not to ...
The Alau Dam was constructed in 1986 to help farmers with irrigation and to help control flooding from the Ngadda River. Before 2024, the dam has broken twice: in 1994 and 2012, leading to flooding of local communities. [3] The Borno State has also been experiencing a humanitarian crisis over the last decade due to the Boko Haram insurgency ...
Aug 14, 2024 – The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the mpox virus a global health emergency due to a worsening outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of Africa.
UNDRR (formerly UNISDR) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and it supports the implementation & review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted by the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan. The Sendai Framework is a 15-year voluntary people-centred approach to disaster ...