Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Ethiopia, South Sudan
Key Events
As of 1 March, more than 61,300 South Sudanese asylum seekers arrived in Gambella region. To accommodate the increasing number of new arrivals, construction of a new camp in Itang special woreda started on 26 February.
DRMFSS released the new nutrition hotspot woredas list on 21 February. Sixty-eight of the 335 hotspot woredas were identified as priority 1, a decrease by 23.6 per cent compared to the equivalent period in 2013.
Four dengue cases were confirmed in Gode town (Somali region).
As of 26 February, the dispatch of the relief food rations for the first round of 2014 reached 19 per cent
