CERF allocates $144,700 for food distribution to populations affected by the floods in Tanzania
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| A market in Tanzania Photo: IRIN] |
2 December 2009: Six consecutive days of rains have caused deadly floods in some areas of the Same district in Kilimanjaro region. On 11 November 209, 24 people were killed and more people seriously injured by a landslide caused by heavy rains. Also, there is extensive damage to infrastructure and homes/houses as well as loss of property and assets.
In response to the situation, CERF has allocated $144,700 to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food to approximately 6,200 rural populations affected by the floods.
[Last Update: 15 December 2009]
CERF allocates more than $1.3 million for emergency agricultural assistance in Tanzania
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| Tanzania just like many other East African countries has also faced looming food shortages.[Photo: IRIN] |
1 May 2009: In early 2009, the food security role of sheep and goats in East Africa were threatened and devastated by outbreaks of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) - also called goat plague. The disease was first reported in Kenya in late 2006, Uganda in 2007 and has since spread to Tanzania and will continue to spread to other East African and SADC countries unless urgent and stringent measures are taken to halt its spread. The impact of the disease on food security and peoples’ livelihood was potentially enormous, especially at such a time of food shortages and high food prices being experienced globally and in Africa in particular.
Responding this situation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) used more than $1.3 million to vaccinate 80% of the sheep and goats in all of the five regions bordering Kenya and in the districts of Bariadi and Meatu in Shinyanga region and Iramba district in Singida region of Tanzania. The vaccination is expected to halt the spread of the disease to other parts of Tanzania, other East African counties such as Rwanda and Burundi and SADC countries including Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. The intervention will protect and sustain the major livelihood of the peasant (resource poor) small ruminant keepers in the affected and other potentially vulnerable areas.
[Last Update: 2 June 2009]