Since the initial earthquake Sunday in the east of the province of Nangarhar, the landslides and several strong replicas have disrupted the work of the rescue teams.
In a updatethe United Nations Fund, Unicefsaid the access routes remain blocked in various places, including the districts of Chawkay and Nurgal, both in the province of Kunar, although the authorities have deployed earth movement machines to restore access.
The latest estimates indicate that around half a million people have been affected-including 263,000 children-while at least 5,000 houses underwent partial or total damage.
The tremors continue
Among the agencies of the United Nations that took place there, the UN Habitat noted that the earthquake had caused a massive upheaval in a distant region where the recent repatriated of Pakistan and Iran barely began to settle.
“There are even more earthquakes every day in the region, causing landslides and making access even more difficult,” said Stephanie Loose of the UN in the capital, Kabul.
She noted that women and girls were the main victims due to strict rules that prevented them from leaving their houses alone.
“Many of them, due to imposed cultural standards or restrictions, have not dared to leave their homes; There are not sufficient women in the country either, and I understand that they are unable to reach women who need it, “said Ms. Lool.
Papua Nouvelle-Guinée on the front line of climate change, warns Guterres
Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands are the “terrestrial zero” of climate change, the precious tropical forests and ecosystems deserve the support of the world to ensure that they are protected, the UN Secretary General said on Thursday.
Speaking of Papua New Guinea where he visited the third largest tropical forest in the world and spoke with representatives of civil society, António Guterres underlined the challenges caused by climate change in the region.
This is the very first visit to the Southwest Pacific Nation by an in-office secretary general.
Earlier, he repeated his warning that the limit of 1.5 degrees on the increase in global temperatures agreed under 2015 Paris Agreement Stay in danger.
And although scientists say that it is always possible to limit global warming, the UN chief has urged countries to reveal their new national climatic plans to reduce emissions and “seize opportunities” resulting from the revolution of renewable energies.
New Ebola epidemic declared in Dr Congo
The health authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an epidemic of Ebola The viral disease of the province of Kasai where 28 suspicious cases and 15 deaths – including four health workers – were reported on Thursday.
The epidemic is concentrated in the Bulape and Mweka health areas in the province of Kasai, in the DRC center-South Center. Symptoms of rare – but serious – and often fatal diseases include fever, vomiting, diarrhea and hemorrhage.
The samples tested on September 3 at the National Institute for Biomedical Research in the country in the capital Kinshasa confirmed the cause of the epidemic as Ebola Zaïre.
Experts deployed
A national rapid intervention team helped by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)) Experts in epidemiology, prevention and control of infections – as well as cases management – have been deployed in the province of Kasai.
Communication experts have also been deployed to reach communities and help them understand how to protect themselves.
In addition, which offers two tonnes of supplies, including personal protective equipment, mobile laboratory equipment and medical supplies.
The area is difficult to reach and at least a day of road from the provincial capital Tshikapa, with few aerial links.
“We act with determination to quickly stop the spread of the virus and to protect communities,” said Dr. Mohamed Janabi, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
“Bank on the country’s long -standing expertise in the control of epidemics of viral diseases, we are working closely with the health authorities to quickly increase key response measures to end the epidemic as soon as possible.”
Case likely to increase
The number of cases should increase as the transmission is underway.
The country has a stock of treatments, as well as 2,000 doses of the EBOLA EBOLA EBOLA vaccine already attended in the Kinshasa capital which will quickly be transferred to Kasai to vaccinate contacts and front -line health workers.
The last epidemic of the DRC affected the province of the North West equation in April 2022.
He was mastered in less than three months thanks to the solid efforts of the health authorities. In the province of Kasai, previous epidemics of Ebola’s virus disease were reported in 2007 and 2008. In the country overall, 15 epidemics since the first time that the disease was identified in 1976.
Not condemns the attack on peacebuilders in South Sudan
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, Inexpensive,, condemned an attack By a local armed group which targeted the “peacekeepers” in the Western Equatoria State.
Activists later seized a small cache of weapons and ammunition. The incident occurred while the peacekeepers were doing a patrol between Tambura and Mapuse.
“We emphasize that any attack on peace soldiers can constitute a war crime,” UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Thursday in the daily newspaper in New York.
“These peacetakes are deployed to protect civilians at a time when access and security remain fragile in the west of the Ecuadoria,” he added.
Meanwhile, widespread floods also have an impact on hundreds of thousands of people in several parts of the youngest nation in the world, which got involved in the civil war shortly after being independent in 2011.
A fragile peace agreement 2018 is in danger of unraveling In the midst of new offensives and deteriorate humanitarian conditions.
Floods affect 270,000
Local reports suggest that more than 270,000 people are affected by floods in 12 counties in four states.
These areas were already struggling with floods, trips, food security and cholera, said Dujarric, agricultural land, houses and humanitarian facilities now overwhelmed, disrupting access to education, health, nutrition and water services.
UN humanitarian workers say that overcrowding in relocation sites has led to tensions among families displaced at the same time, relationships of water -borne diseases and snake bites increase public health risks.
Peace soldiers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (Unsiss) increased their presence and intensified vehicle patrols, sailing perfidal roads soaked in rain.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
