More than 80 percent of the current staff of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) are not trained in disaster management. That’s according to the outgoing Director General of...
At least six people have died in Burundi in a night of torrential rain and flooding that triggered landslides and caused widespread damage. Gaston Sindimwo, the African nation's vice president, said...
UN says 2.9 million people in Somalia need urgent help "to save or sustain their lives". Campaign to raise $1m to deliver humanitarian aid to famine-hit African country gets massive public support. A...
A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip slammed into southern Israel on Saturday, prompting retaliatory Israeli tank fire, sources on both sides said. The Israeli army said the rocket hit an...
The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential United...
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...
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) has urged road users to comply with all road regulations to enhance safety on the roads. The advice comes in the wake of the alarming spate of accidents in...
South Sudan's government is spending its oil revenue on weapons as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential UN report. The report...
Forty-two people have been killed when a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen was fired at from a helicopter, the International Organisation for Migration says. Women and children...
So in the face of recorded fatalities on our roads and the consequences, the question often asked is; whose responsibility it is to ensure that our roads are free of unworthy vehicles. In...
Dozens of Somali refugees including women and children have been shot dead aboard a boat on the Red Sea, Yemeni officials and the International Organization for Migration said Friday. The bodies of...
A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ordered it and the plant operator to pay damages, officials...
Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) a road safety non-government organization, has expressed worry over the rise in the number of recent road crashes on our streets. A statement signed by...
Indonesia summoned the British ambassador Friday after a cruise ship on a voyage organised by a London-based company smashed into coral reefs in a popular tourist spot and caused extensive damage....
Nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima won formal approval to host baseball during the Tokyo Olympics on Friday -- and may have the honour of putting on the opening game. Chief organiser Yoshiro Mori said...
Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country's space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea's quickening missile programme. The Radar 5 unit was carried...
The International Organization for Migration said Thursday that two people were killed when gunmen attacked an aid convoy in South Sudan, where chronic violence has led to famine. The aid...
Several tourists have been injured as Mount Etna erupted for the third time in just under three weeks, spitting molten lava nearly 650 feet into the sky above Sicily. A BBC journalist and camera crew...
Boko Haram Islamists have raided a town in restive northeast Nigeria, looting food supplies and burning homes after overwhelming troops, residents told AFP on Thursday. The attack late on Wednesday...
The Horn of Africa country has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the disas Emergency workers in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa searched through a mountain of garbage for...
