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Ethiopia: Somalis and Eritreans flee to Ethiopia en masse
Somalis and Eritreans migrating to Ethiopia en masse due to the unending political crisis in their countries could trigger a humanitarian burden. According to...
Ethiopia blocks food supply as millions go hungry
The government of Ethiopia has put a restriction on trucks with food supplies and prioritized trucks of fertilizers into the country as nine million...
US and EU dole out funds to cash-strapped Zimbabwe
The United States is now the latest country to dole out financial aid to Zimbabwe in an attempt to economically stabilize the inflation-ridden African...
Ethiopia: MoARD reveals Safety Net Program pitfalls
Ethiopia may be unable to deliver aid under the Safety Net Program due to a shortfall from donors, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...
Zimbabwe: The Elders intervene in humanitarian crisis
A group of eminent global leaders known as 'The Elders' have pleaded with key donor governments and the European Commission (EC) to give aid...
Madagascar: On the slippery slope to hunger
Florine Zafy, who runs the health centre in Sampona, a tiny town in the Anosy region of southern Madagascar, has become as desperate as...
Madagascar: Headed for a more serious crisis
International donors need to face up to the seriousness of Madagascar's deepening humanitarian crisis and, perhaps more importantly, they need to pay up, said...
Zimbabwe: The storm is far from over
International humanitarian aid efforts to Zimbabwe to help combat a continuing cholera outbreak and overcome widespread food shortages are intensifying. The International Monetary Fund...
Sudan: Gov’t doing its best to free kidnapped aid workers
A Canadian and a French national, serving humanity in Darfur, under the Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) agency have been kidnapped by Islamic Gunmen, at...
Sudan: Arab states could be linked to mass deaths if…
Analysts are cautioning Arab states, who have rallied in support of Omar el-Bashir against the international arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court...
S. Africa embarrassed as peace conference is postponed
Nobel Prize laureates, South Africa and China have been caught in a solidarity triangle that has seen economic ties outweigh humanitarian support leading to...
Obama and Ban Ki-Moon to tackle Sudan issue together
President Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have agreed to seek ways to end the immediate humanitarian crisis in Darfur and work toward long-term...
Mozambique: Health workers killed for cholera spread
A mob angered by rumors in Mozambique that health workers there are spreading the deadly cholera virus has killed four people have ...
Somali gunmen abducted UN officials over employment
Four UN staff members abducted by unknown armed men on 16 March in Wajid town, 340km northwest of the capital, Mogadishu, have been released...
Zimbabwe still in dire straits
The international humanitarian community's most important tool for raising resources for action in Zimbabwe, the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), is out of date and...
7m out 9m resident Zimbabweans need food
Zimbabwe has an estimated population of 12 million out of which a quarter has moved abroad due to a whopping 94% unemployment rate and...
Liberian prison inmates naked and troubled
Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL) has issued a report on what it calls “deplorable” conditions in Liberia’s prisons and detention centres and has called for...
Zimbabwe humanitarian crisis worse than Darfur
"There is no food, we have malnutrition, there is cholera, now we are expecting a malaria outbreak,” said an exasperated Amanda Weisbaum, the emergency...
Vulnerable populations relieved from cluster bombs
About 100 countries on Wednesday in Oslo, Norway, began endorsing an international treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs. The treaty described as...
Mauritius deeply concerned by Zimbabwe crisis
Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoola has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, which has been compounded by the outbreak of...
Annan won’t give up despite Mugabe opposition
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he will continue his efforts to help Zimbabweans from outside the country. Annan said earlier that he had...
Zimbabwe crisis worse than imagined – The Elders
A delegation of The Elders led by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says Zimbabwe’s crisis is worse than it had imagined.
Annan, former...
No help to thousands caught in the triangle of death
When the armed rebels and militias of Congo, Chad or Sudan, go through villages , what they leave behind them are deaths, sorrows, uncertain...
Humanitarians good if crisis doesn’t affect their income
Humanitarian organisations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon to predict...
Another UN Aid worker killed in Somalia
A Somali official, employed by UN children’s' fund, UNICEF, was shot several times in the head and then the body, according to intelligence sources...
Terrorist attacks further dent Mauritania economy
Following the set back suffered from donor sanctions on Mauritania, the country is struggling to cope with the latest blow dealt them by the...
Hope for starving Liberian pupils
The rising price of food has left many children in Liberia starving as their parents battle to secure a livelihood. But it has been...
US comes to Ethiopia’s rescue
Drought-affected communities in Ethiopia will receive an additional food aid package of nearly US$ 60 million from the US through the UN World Food...
Rising HIV infections cause stir in Kenya
Kenyan health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over the growing rate of fresh HIV/AIDS infections, which increased by over 11% in the past year...
Djibouti a death trap as conflicts and drought threaten population
According to the official UN report on Djibouti, food supply and emergency aids is would be needed to keep the larger part of the...