24 July 2015 – ACT Alliance Alert Reference Number: 19/2015. Monsoon rains started the third week of July 2015 and have already created chaos in parts of the country. Chitral district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Ghanche in Gilgit Baltistan are the worst affected areas. More rains are expected and the situation is likely to worsen significantly.
Since April 2015, Burundians have been fleeing their country following the announcement that President Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third presidential term.
In 2014 and early 2015, there was an outbreak of Ebola for the first time in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in West Africa. Even though the disease broke out in other counties (Nigeria, Senegal and Mail), the countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone were the ones most severely hit.
26 March 2015 – This is not a new emergency, but an Alert to ACT Alliance members of an Appeal following an RRF disbursement.
Flooding and heavy rainstorms affected 17 districts in the country in January 2015. The ACT Malawi Forum responded, through the ACT Rapid Response Fund, in the three districts of Nsanje, Chikwawa and Mulanje through provision of food distributions amongst the affected populations.
