In Kenya, agriculture employs up to 75 per cent of the population, but farmers’ livelihoods are being threatened by a changing climate and the loss […]
Category: Africa
Mozambique floods heighten disease, malnutrition risks – UN agencies
The head of aid coordination office, OCHA, in the country, Paola Emerson, told reporters in Geneva that more than half a million people have been […]
At the edge of war: the Central African Republic’s uneasy border with Sudan
Since the beginning of the civil war in Sudan, tens of thousands of refugees have fled south to the area, carrying with them not only […]
Sudan: Atrocities ‘repeated town by town’, ICC prosecutor tells UN Security Council
Briefing ambassadors, ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan said the situation in Darfur had “darkened even further,” with civilians subjected to what she described as […]
UN rights chief bears witness to trauma and resilience in Sudan
Volker Türk was speaking in the Kenyan capital at the end of a five-day mission to Sudan, where “a chronicle of cruelty is unfolding before […]
Aid cuts push millions in West and Central Africa deeper into hunger
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) issued the warning on Friday, citing latest analysis from the food security framework Cadre Harmonisé, the regional equivalent of the Integrated Food Security […]
WFP warns Sudan food aid could run out in March
The UN agency has reached 10 million vulnerable people with food, cash and nutrition assistance since the conflict began and continues to deliver aid to an average […]
Built on care and connection: How one Somali-British woman is strengthening diaspora communities
From then on, Safia learned early what it meant to look out for others. As a primary school student, Safia began helping newly arrived families […]
Sudan: After 1,000 days of war, millions of civilians still bearing brunt
Latest UN data indicates that 9.3 million people have been uprooted by conflict across the country and more than 4.3 million have fled across borders, […]
Thirteen more lives lost in Sudan as 1,000th day of war looms
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the latest fatalities come amid escalating violence, especially across the Kordofans, which continues to put civilians at “extreme risk” and […]
