The United Nations warned Tuesday that “the risk of mass deaths from starvation … is growing” among people in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. Due to drought and a “severe” funding shortfall “an avoidable humanitarian crisis … is fast becoming an inevitability”, said UN refugee agency spokesman Adrian … Read more
Canada’s government pledged Can$120 million (US$90 million, 84 million euros) Friday to help relieve food crises in four countries where 20 million people face starvation and famine. The funding for afflicted populations in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen came a week after the United Nations launched an urgent appeal for $4.4 billion in aid … Read more
The United Nations is warning that the world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, with more than 20 million people facing starvation and famine in four countries. The world body’s humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien called Friday for an urgent mobilization of funds — $4.4 billion by July — … Read more
South Sudan’s government said on Monday that the country’s over three-year war has led to famine in parts of the nation, while nearly five million people — half the population — is going hungry. Isaiah Chol Aruai, the chairman of South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics, said some parts of the northern Greater Unity region … Read more
The suicide attack was carried on by two women in a busy market At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Madagali in Adamawa state, the army says. Two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a busy market, an army spokesman told AFP news … Read more