Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile
Veronika Haulenga
Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile
Veronika Haulenga
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Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga
Lebanon says a million people may be displaced as Israel continues air strikes. Israel says it has also attacked military targets of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen. Chris Watts works with the charity Future Academy in refugee camps in Lebanon. Militant group Hamas meanwhile says its leader in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, was killed alongside his wife and two children in an Israeli strike in the south of […]
Floods in Nigeria have devastated crops that could have fed 8.5 million people for six months, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Bloomberg News reports that the floods hit just as the harvest season began, submerging farmland in Africa's most populous country. Farmers, who expected a bumper harvest this year, have seen their groundnuts, vegetables, and rice fields flooded. Moreover, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has […]
Abandoned homes in South Sudan. rameesha bilal shah / shutterstock By Liz Stephens, University of Reading and Jacob Levi, Charité – Berlin University of Medicine Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands of people there were already forced from their homes by huge floods […]
Fresh peace talks to end Sudan's 16-month conflict have begun, but neither side has yet participated. The BBC reports that the US is leading the negotiations and remains committed to resolving the crisis despite the absence of the warring factions. The conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces has resulted in thousands of deaths, displaced around 10 million people, and triggered a severe hunger crisis.
The International Organization for Migration has called on countries to significantly increase their donations to address Sudan's severe displacement crisis. Reuters says, Mohamed Refaat, head of the IOM's Sudan mission, cautioned that the organization has only secured 21% of the required funding. Without additional support, the ongoing conflict, combined with widespread hunger, disease, and floods, could result in the loss of tens of thousands of lives.
By Aminu Abubakar A bomb exploded in a teahouse in a village in northeast Nigeria, killing 19 people and wounding two dozen more in the second major attack in a few weeks, security sources said on Thursday. The blast in Kawuri village in Borno State on Wednesday evening was one of the deadliest in recent years in northeast Nigeria, where violence from a grinding jihadist conflict […]
By Kagure Gacheche, The Conversation The Norwegian Refugee Council recently released a report highlighting the 10 most neglected displacement crises in the world in 2023. Nine of the 10 countries are in Africa – the only non-African country on the list is Honduras in central America. Neglect, according to the council, is characterised by a lack of media coverage, inadequate humanitarian funding and insufficient […]
The war in Sudan could trigger the world’s largest hunger crisis unless fighting stops, The World Food Programme has warned. The BBC reports that more than 10 months of fighting between rival forces has left nearly 14,000 people dead, over eight million displaced, and much of the country’s population cut off and facing rising hunger.
A new outbreak of unrest in northern Mozambique by jihadist insurgency has forced thousands to flee their homes, according to UN figures and sources in Cabo Delgado province. The AFP news agency reports that an alert from the UN migration agency IOM said recent attacks in the Macomia, Chiure and Mecufi districts had displaced 13 088 people - most of them children - by bus, canoe, and on foot.
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