ADRA

CÔTE D'IVOIRE: Postelection violence in the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire has left more than 250 people dead and forced nearly a million to flee their homes to escape the political crisis and interethnic clashes. Working in coordination with local partners, ADRA distributed food rations to newly displaced persons in the western town of Duékoué.

SOUTH SUDAN: Since the results of a historic referendum in Southern Sudan were announced on January 31, effectively declaring independence from the north after decades of hostilities, ADRA has been continuing the implementation of a multiyear project to provide better health, nutrition, and empowerment to more than a half million vulnerable people.

YEMEN: Hundreds of thousands of refugees cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia into Yemen in an effort to flee the increase in violence that has been generated by the continuing civil war in Somalia. ADRA is managing two camps, one in the capital city of Sanaa and the other in the southern city of Aden. Along with food, water, clothing, and hygiene kits, ADRA is also providing vocational training for refugees and internally displaced people currently residing in the camps.

Somalia: As drought threatens millions of Somalis and their livestock once more, ADRA is delivering water to more than 7,700 people living in vulnerable villages in the northeastern Puntland state. This emergency project follows a recent appeal by the president of the self-declared autonomous Puntland state to all humanitarian aid agencies to make efforts to address the drought emergency.