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Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sudan as the Lean Season Begins
12th April 2024, Nairobi, Kenya: As Sudan faces one of the most severe humanitarian crises in recent history, urgent action is needed to prevent a looming humanitarian tragedy. This is as the escalation of the conflict, which erupted on 15 April 2023, threatens to put millions into the worst levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition.
Multi-sectoral humanitarian needs have reached new, alarming highs as a result of livelihood disruptions, large-scale displacement, interruptions of trade routes and markets, and limited humanitarian access, among other challenges. These needs are likely to escalate steeply as the lean season begins, especially …
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Kenyan President Kenyatta to officially launch IGAD's Climate Center
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday officially launch the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) in Ngong, out of the capital Nairobi, Kenya.
ICPAC is a regional climate center designated by the World …
Winners of the Climate Action Awards East Africa by categories
ICPAC’s Action Awards East Africa for this year came to a close on September 8, 2021 with the winners of each categories announced.
The competition, which recognized people and institutions with disruptive innovations and ideas …
Co-production in Climate Services: What, Why, and How?
What does co-production mean? Just by looking at the word, one can probably tell that it has something to do with producing something as well as cooperating. But how does it work? …
Meet the Winners of the Climate Action Awards East Africa
ICPAC is pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Climate Action Awards East Africa—a competition that shines a spotlight on people/organizations with groundbreaking innovations and ideas to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The …
Food Insecurity Persists In The IGAD Region
21 September 2021, Nairobi, Kenya: An estimated 31.4 million people across the IGAD region were classified in crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3+) levels of acute food insecurity in 2020. This figure represents 20% of …
ICPAC Launches Drought Watch System
by Grace Miswa, Viola Otieno, Erick Otenyo and Marta Baraibar
The East Africa Drought Watch (https://droughtwatch.icpac.net/) is the very first public transboundary system that uses near-real-time Earth Observation and Weather Information to monitor …