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While rainfall will increase in the Upper Nile basin over the next century, water stress will also increase through drought and population growth.

Thanks to the Making Cities Resilient Initiative, Khartoum has become more aware of its gaps regarding disaster risk management, and is addressing them with various projects.

The FAO's Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) system is shifting community focus in Sudan towards a more proactive drought management.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is developing innovative early warning systems to anticipate risks and intervene at the right time. The right time is often early – before a crisis becomes a humanitarian disaster. FAO’s

As droughts and floods cut crop harvests and storms tear up buildings and power lines, countries vulnerable to climate change have proposed new ways to access cheaper financing to tackle the risks. For example, new instruments aim at fostering climate resilience and helping countries transition to 100 percent renewable energy.

In collaboration with key partners, UN Environment has been implementing in Darfur the Wadi El Ku Catchment Management Project. Beyond building water infrastructure to facilitate farmers' drought resilience, the project has also reduced tensions among communities competing for scarce resources. The second phase aims to expand integrated water resource management.

This is the third edition of the Suffering in Silence report. The aim of this report is to highlight those humanitarian crises in 2018 that, though large, have received little public attention. In the final section, it also addresses the question of how

The FAO has warned that rains and cyclones triggered a recent surge in Desert Locust populations, causing an outbreak to develop in Sudan and Eritrea that is rapidly spreading to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Given the major threat these swarms pose to crop production and livelihoods, countries are using aerial and ground control methods to curb damages.