Emergencies  [to 5 November 2016]

WHO Grade 3 Emergencies [to 5 November 2016]
Iraq – No new announcements identified.
Nigeria -No new announcements identified.
South Sudan – No new announcements identified.
The Syrian Arab Republic – No new announcements identified.
Yemen – No new announcements identified.

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WHO Grade 2 Emergencies [to 5 November 2016]
Cameroon –
:: Read the latest situation report in French pdf, 945kb 31 October 2015
Central African Republic – No new announcements identified.
Democratic Republic of the Congo – No new announcements identified.
Ethiopia – No new announcements identified.
Libya – No new announcements identified.
Myanmar – No new announcements identified.
Niger – No new announcements identified.
Ukraine – No new announcements identified.

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Editor’s Note:
While the WHO Emergency webpages above do not capture the announcements below, we add them here for continuity in understanding emergency contexts.

WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO
:: WHO reaches children and women in remote areas of Yemen
Sana’a, 3 November 2016 — WHO and partners have conducted the third round of integrated outreach activities in all remote and rural areas in Yemen’s 333 districts, providing more than 244,000 children with nutrition, immunization and integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI) services.

The activities, supported by WHO, have so far reached 17,000 villages. Almost 85,000 pregnant women and women of childbearing age were vaccinated against tetanus and received reproductive health, antenatal/postnatal care services. More than 7000 health workers took part in the outreach activities.
“Remote and rural areas in Yemen are deprived of essential health services. The health situation in these areas has been further worsened by the current conflict, which constrains health workers from reaching all areas in need. With health services reduced or halted in more than 1900 health facilities in 16 governorates, these integrated outreach activities serve as critical health support,” said Dr Ahmed Shadoul, WHO Representative to Yemen.

Currently, WHO is supporting 28 mobile health teams covering primary health care, including nutrition support, as well as 29 health facility-based teams and 12 therapeutic feeding centres in 10 governorates in Yemen.

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UN OCHA – L3 Emergencies
The UN and its humanitarian partners are currently responding to three ‘L3’ emergencies. This is the global humanitarian system’s classification for the response to the most severe, large-scale humanitarian crises.
Iraq –
:: Mosul Humanitarian Crisis, 1 November 2016
IN NUMBERS
1.2-1.5m – PEOPLE COULD BE AFFECTED OVERALL BY THE MILITARY OPERATIONS
1m – COULD BE DISPLACED IN A WORST-CASE SCENARIO
700,000 – PEOPLE MAY NEED TO BE ACCOMMODATED IN EMERGENCY SHELTERS
18,000 – PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY DISPLACED
3,300 – DISPLACED PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES
50% – OF THE DISPLACED PEOPLE ARE IN CAMPS
OVERVIEW
In a worst case scenario, the Mosul humanitarian response is likely to be the single largest and most complex in the world in 2016.

As many as 1.2-1.5 million people could be affected overall by the military operations.
In a worst-case scenario, up to 1 million girls, boys, women and men could be displaced and 700,000 may need to be accommodated in emergency shelters.

As military operations to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) continue, civilians are at extreme risk of being caught up in cross-fire or targeted by snipers.
Tens of thousands of people may be forcibly expelled, trapped between fighting lines, besieged or held as human shields. Chemical weapons may be used.

Public facilities, thoroughfares and homes may be booby-trapped or contaminated by improvised mines and explosive hazards. Children, women, the elderly and disabled will be particularly vulnerable. Delays, abuses, and irregularities may occur during screening of displaced families.

DISPLACEMENT AND HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
According to the International Organization for Migration there are currently more than 17,900 people displaced. At least 3,300 additional people who fled during the first week of the military operations have returned to their homes following improved security conditions in the immediate area. The situation is fluid and the numbers and patterns of displacement are fluctuating as the front lines move. Overall displacement is expected to rise rapidly as the military operation moves closer to urban areas.

Just over 50 per cent of the people displaced so far are in camps: Qayyarah-Jadah, Zelikan and Hasansham camps in Ninewa Governorate; Debaga camp in Erbil Governorate; and Bzeibiz central camp in Fallujah district in Anbar Governorate.
Just under half of the displaced population are sheltering in private settings or critical shelters in host communities.

As humanitarian actors gain access to recently retaken areas, it is clear that humanitarian needs in vulnerable front line communities are significant. Further assessments are planned to better understand the needs of these vulnerable communities who have lived under the control of ISIL for more than two years.

UNHCR reports that 44 Iraqis from Mosul have crossed the border into Syria since 17 October.

:: Iraq: Mosul Humanitarian Response Situation Report #5 (29-31 October 2016) [EN/AR]

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Syria
:: Syria Crisis Bi-Weekly Situation Report No.16 (as of 31 October 2016) 4 Nov 2016
:: Statement by Mr. Al-Za’tari, the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria and Mr. Kevin Kennedy, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Crisis in Syria, on Attack on UN Offices in Western Aleppo
Damascus and Amman, 31 October 2016
The United Nations strongly condemns an attack on the building where UN offices and staff are based in west Aleppo city. The UN presence in the building is long established and well known. On 30 October, the top floors of the building were damaged by a tank shell.

“It is appalling that the building that houses the UN offices was directly targeted,” said Ali Al-Za’tari, the UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria. “We strongly condemn the increased violence in all of Aleppo, east and west, which has resulted in the death and injury of scores of civilians, including children,” he stressed…

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Yemen
– No new announcements identified.