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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...
“The people of Sudan must not be punished any further” – Desmond Tutu
The humanitarian situation in Sudan is expected to deteriorate sharply following the expulsion of 13 international aid agencies by the government and issuing of...
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most important tool for raising resources for action in Zimbabwe, the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), is out of date and...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...
Zimbabwe : Ban on NGO’s and Aid Groups to be lifted
According to Zimbabwe’s state radio the Zimbabwean government has lifted a two-month-old ban on non-governmental organizations.
The government had closed down international aid groups after...
Underfunding threatening UN operations in Somalia
The United Nations relief workers and other humanitarian agencies are struggling to maintain a presence in volatile Somalia, against worsening threats to aid workers...
Ethiopia’s unwelcomed results of rain after long deadly drought
Three rivers in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia have burst their banks following torrential rains that fell in the area for three consecutive...
The enemy is within : Ethiopian FM tells Somali leaders indirectly
Ethiopia has blasted Somalia’s political leaders for getting bogged down in ”internal squabbles” while millions of Somalis live on the brink of a humanitarian...
Fighting between Islamic insurgents and local forces displace thousands
Fighting between Islamic insurgents and forces of the local administration in Somalia's port city of Kismayo entered a second day on 21 August, displacing...
Land remains key challenge in reintegration of returnees
Although he looks frail, Cossan Ntabwigwa, in his late 60s, is a determined man. He recently returned from Tanzania, where he had been a...
Food Crisis in Northern Uganda
Food insecurity in northern Uganda, a region recovering from two decades of conflict, is approaching crisis levels due to a combination of factors, including...