MYANMAR

More than 5,000 people are estimated to be newly displaced since early April in Kachin State following heavy fighting between the Myanmar Military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Affected areas include Tanai, Hpakant, Momauk, Mogaung, Injangyang and Chipwi townships, as well as the Laiza area. Fighting has subsided in some areas but is reportedly ongoing in Injangyang and Chipwi as of 29 April. There are reports of civilians that are unable to leave the conflict-affected areas of Tania, Hpakant and Injingyang townships. People fleeing the fighting are now sheltering in local churches, existing displacement sites, or staying with host families where they have received initial humanitarian assistance from the Government and local organizations.

5,000 people newly displaced in Kachin State

PHILIPPINES

A series of armed clashes have been reported between government armed forces and the NPA , the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. 68 families are displaced and currently staying in three evacuation centers, after fighting in Negros Occidental, on 16 April. On 19 April in Compostela Valley on Mindanao, approximately 400 people were displaced during another firefight. On 21 April nine familes were displaced after fighting in Leyte province. Local government authorities have provided assistance to those displaced and affected.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

The results of a mobile Vulnerability Assessment Mapping (mVAM) conducted by WFP in late March 2018 indicate that 14 per cent of 1,534 households contacted in affected areas had been displaced in the wake of the 7.5M earthquake that struck the country’s highlands region on 26 February 2018. The mVAM further showed that households in nine of 31 Local Level Governments (LLGs) surveyed experienced high or extreme food shortages, with the destruction of food gardens in these areas removing the main livelihood and food supply source for the majority of people. Recovery efforts should prioritize re-establishment of food gardens to minimize detrimental effects on food security.

AFGHANISTAN

In Kunduz Province, more than 1,400 people have been displaced to the provincial capital due to the ongoing drought, where they requested humanitarian assistance. The nearly 2,900 people who were displaced from Badghis Province to Hirat City, Hirat, two weeks ago due to the drought received food rations, emergency shelter and household items. The drought has reached vast parts of the country and could put one million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the coming months.

Conflict and fighting displaced an estimated 3,000 people in the past week, according to first reports, bringing the total of people displaced due to conflict to more than 75,500 this year.

75,500 people displaced in 2018