THE Swedish embassy has injected US$5.8 million to support child protection programs in Zimbabwe through United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The ambassador of Sweden in Zimbabwe Ms Asa Pehrson and UNICEF representative in Zimbabwe Dr Tajudeen Oyewale signed the funding agreement, Tuesday in Harare. The funding will be used primarily in Binga, Chiredzi, Bulilima, Buhera, […]
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Aswan — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), launched today an emergency cash assistance programme to support vulnerable people fleeing the conflict in Sudan. WFP’s pre-established cash delivery platform will also be made available to sister UN agencies to enable them to quickly extend their assistance to vulnerable people arriving in Egypt from Sudan. […]
Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ paltry incomes fell on average by 16 percent since the start of the pandemic –while the confectionary profits of the four biggest public chocolate corporations on average jumped by the exact same rate. Chocolate corporations’ sustainability programs are failing to deliver on promises to raise farmers’ incomes. Oxfam is urging chocolate giants […]
Deliveries aim to reach hundreds of thousands of hungry people, but humanitarian access is challenging The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun delivering food aimed for hundreds of thousands of hungry people in Sudan, with hopes to expand to more areas despite enormous security challenges, including intense fighting raging in parts of the country. Donate […]
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Sudan Envoys Discuss Humanitarian Relief
Envoys from both of Sudan’s warring factions are in Saudi Arabia to arrange for the opening of humanitarian corridors in Sudan. The parties have insisted that they are only sitting across from each other to bring some relief to the humanitarian situation in the North African country and not to negotiate a truce. The pre-negotiation […]
Khartoum — The World Food Program says it is struggling to get aid to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and other areas seeing intense fighting and multiple failed cease-fires. World Food Program spokeswoman for Sudan Leni Kinzli said Thursday the agency has started distributing food aid to people who have fled the fighting in what she described […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had announced a $500 million over the next three (3) years to support the efforts at securing peace in the Sahel region as well as the coast states of the Gulf of Guinea. This announcement was made when Prime Minister Kishida paid a one-day courtesy call on President Nana Addo […]
Rome — As the crisis in Sudan pushes millions into hunger, the World Food Programme (WFP) is immediately lifting the temporary suspension of operations put in place after the tragic deaths of our three team members on April 15. Distribution of food is expected to commence in the states of Gedaref, Gezira, Kassala and White […]
The Government of the United States of America, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has provided US$ 2.1 million (approximately MKW 2.18 billion) and committed an additional US$ 400,000 (approximately MKW 415 million) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to scale up the ongoing cholera outbreak response in Malawi. According to a […]
As clashes continue in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities, heavy gunfire and blasts are happening in the proximity of densely populated residential areas and civilian infrastructure with civilian casualties being reported in various locations. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all parties to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law. This […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily halted all operations, as a result of the fighting between rival military groups, which led to the deaths of three WFP employees on Saturday. According to a statement attributable to the Executive Director of the UN agency, Cindy McCain, the workers were carrying out life-saving duties in Kabkabiya, […]
The United Nations has sent an overland convoy to resupply its peacekeeping mission in separatist-controlled Western Sahara for the first time since 2020. The UN says its presence in the field is key to finding a way to resolve the disagreement over what to do with the territory. Two sites hosting UN peacekeepers as part […]
Two aid workers with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) were killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region amid civil unrest, according to a statement Monday from the aid agency. The unrest was triggered by the government’s decision to dissolve the regional security units of the country’s 11 federal states and fold them into the federal forces. Chuol Tongyik, […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has presented menstrual hygiene kits, textbooks, first aid kits and security alarm bells to 110 schools in Kano. Speaking during the presentation ceremony at the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Chief of UNICEF Office in Kano, Mr Rahama Rihood Mohammed Farah, said the gesture was aimed at […]
The Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC) Ablekuma on Saturday presented assorted items worth thousands of Cedis to the Nsawam Medium Security Prison in the Eastern Region. The items included bags of rice, cooking oil, liquid soaps, mackerels, tin tomatoes, drinks, toiletries, bags of water among others. Presenting the items on behalf of the Residence Minister, […]
The United Nations and humanitarian partners in Malawi have called for US$70.6 million (approximately MK70.6 billion) to assist 1.1 million people affected by the passage of the Tropical Cyclone Freddy weather system in the Southern Region in March 2023. UN Resident Coordinator Ms. Rebecca Adda-Dontoh, in a statement issued on Saturday, said this is in […]
Khartoum — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$1 million from the Government of Japan to provide life-saving food assistance to hundreds of thousands of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Sudan. An estimated 60 percent of IDPs and 50 percent of refugees are food insecure in Sudan. […]
Mozambique needs to spend $35.8bn on climate change mitigation measures by 2030, representing 30% of GDP, according to Paulo Correa, leader of the program on climate and development at the World Bank. That is the level of investment needed until 2030 to achieve climate resilience of human, physical and natural capita. (Zitamar 30 Mar) It […]