Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Kenya, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan (Republic of), Sudan (the), Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania (the)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Heavy rains to continue across region
- Start of deyr rains results in flooding in central Somali Region of Ethiopia
- Great Lakes: aid operation is “effective but not sufficient”
- Insecurity plagues areas of Kenya
- Plans for polio vaccinations begin; thousands of children still at risk in Somalia
- U.N. Security Council extends Somalia peacekeeping force
- Hepatitis E confirmed in Yida, South Sudan
- Suspected yellow fever outbreak in Darfur
- Uganda struggles to bring Marburg outbreak under control
