Close to 100 000 refugees from the Central African Republic or CAR are currently settled in four southern regions of Chad adjacent to the border of the two countries. Most of the refugees first arrived in 2013 and 2014 when a civil war in CAR erupted, yet approximately 20 000 have arrived since December last year.
A year ago, the World Food Programme announced that it was forced to cut food rations by 30% refugees living in the Dadaab and Kakuma camps in northern Kenya. Since then little has changed. Fresh assessment conducted by REACH finds that food remains the most pressing humanitarian need reported by the residents of Dadaab
Since the onset of the disaster caused by the tsunami, REACH has supported the Government of Indonesia and the PP Cluster by assessing the scale of the damage through remote sensing. With the aid of satellite images, the collaboration resulted in a series of maps identifying damaged buildings, displacement sites and locations of liquefaction and landslides.
As the economic, political and social crisis in Venezuela continues with little sustainable solutions in sight, thousands of Venezuelans have been displaced to neighbouring countries. The fresh REACH assessment provides information on the needs of displaced Venezuelans.
