Zanu PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Christopher Mutsvangwa has said the ruling party will superintend the distribution of food aid in Zimbabwe. Mutsvangwa was speaking at a press conference at the party headquarters, on Monday. The drought was recently declared a national disaster by President Emmerson Mnangagwa with Zimbabwe becoming the third Southern African […]
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Geneva — Today marks one year since conflict between rival military leaders broke out in Sudan. Many Sudanese have fled across the border into Chad, including those from Darfur – where news organizations and aid agencies are warning of a return to the widespread genocide and mass rapes in Darfur that began in 2003. On […]
One year after war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, Sudan is facing one of the fastest unfolding crises globally, with unprecedented needs. About 25 million people – of whom over 14 million are children – need humanitarian assistance and support. Alarmingly 17.7 million […]
The United States, through the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), and USAID, is providing more than $25 million in additional humanitarian funding to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to assist refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda. PRM is contributing more than $14 […]
New York — Humanitarians said an international support conference next week for Sudan must be a success, as 18 million Sudanese face crisis levels of hunger while funding for lifesaving programs is running out. “It is essential that we get the levels of funding that will allow us to scale [up] to the extent required,” […]
The Dedza border post, situated between Malawi and Mozambique, is a busy place. On average, more than 80 trucks are cleared daily, carrying shop merchandise from South Africa to Malawi including fertilizers for Malawi’s agriculture sector. For the past few years, before the construction of the new One-Stop Border Post (OSBP) facility, it took about […]
Since war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, millions of people have lived through intense fighting, including airstrikes, bombing, shooting and assaults. Looting has been widespread and attacks on individuals, including sexual violence, remain a defining feature of the war. An estimated 8.5 million […]
In continuation of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to support the efforts made to ensure the implementation of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian Air Force continued throughout the third and fourth days of this month of April to implement humanitarian air bridge missions to drop aid, basic needs, and urgent […]
Millions of people across Southern Africa, are grappling with the dual crises of hunger and flooding. Over half of Malawi’s 19 million population, six million people in Zambia, over three million in Zimbabwe, and three million more in Mozambique are facing hunger. Meanwhile, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, floods wreaked havoc due to persistent heavy downpours […]
Cape Town Fire Displaces Over 700 in Informal Settlements A devastating Easter fire tore through Cape Town’s informal settlements, leaving over 700 homeless, reports News24. The City of Cape Town’s disaster risk management center found 339 homes destroyed across four sites, impacting 759 people. Humanitarian assistance from organizations like Gift of the Givers and Islamic Relief […]
With funding from Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has signed a grant agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to support the latter’s relief aid for people fleeing the conflict in Sudan and seeking refuge or relocation in South Sudan. The main areas of assistance include helping […]
A measles crisis is mounting in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, just as health authorities struggle to overcome a yellow fever outbreak. Since February, seven deaths among children under five and 460 cases have been recorded as of 24 March in three health facilities in Yambio and Nzara counties; 90 per cent of these children […]
Malawi’s President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera declared a state of disaster in 23 of its 28 districts on Saturday, hot on the heels of neighboring Zambia, which has also appealed for aid. The government of Malawi is seeking urgent assistance following Saturday’s declaration by the country’s president of a state of disaster caused by drought. The […]
Only 28 percent of the world’s most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to reduce water pollution. Oxfam’s new analysis of 350 corporations using World Benchmarking Alliance data comes ahead of World Water Day (March 22). The UN, which last […]
Mogadishu — The prime minister of Somalia Hamza Abdi Barre on Wednesday received Mr. Charles Mballa, the UNHCR Representative, at his office in the presidential palace in Mogadishu. They discussed the current situation of refugees and IDPs in the country with a specific focus on ways to transform aid efforts into sustainable development projects that […]
The conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces militia has decimated the country’s ability to feed itself and prevented humanitarian aid from reaching those who need it most. Some 5 million people in Sudan could face “catastrophic food insecurity” in the coming months as fighting continues between rival generals, according to UN […]
Millions of people have nothing left to eat but wild roots as they have lost their crops to repeated extreme weather Tropical storm Filipo has hit Mozambique today, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in urgent need of humanitarian support. The storm, which made landfall in Inhambane province in Mozambique, comes just a year after […]
Nearly 100,000 people, more than half of them children, have been displaced in one month due to an escalation of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique. The new wave of displacements is taking place against the backdrop of a protracted cholera outbreak, heightening the risk of infectious diseases for displaced families and host […]