The United Nations has raised less than a third of the funding needed to prevent famine in Somalia, a spokesman said Wednesday, ahead of a Security Council meeting on the crisis in the drought-hit...
On March 21 and 22, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) met with the Government and partners working to advance food security goals under the U. S. government’s global...
Homeless people are camping along one of Sydney's busiest streets after setting up a makeshift shelter. Photographs have emerged showing rough sleepers lining along a set of steps just metres from...
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...
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...
US President Donald Trump is seeking to reduce his country's contribution to UN programmes, as part of cuts to funding of US diplomacy and foreign aid in his administration's budget proposal. The...
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...
Former Director of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa says until Ghana addresses the problem of malnutrition among children under five (5) years, the country will continue to have...
Sir Mo Farah has said it "breaks his heart" to hear how families are facing starvation in East Africa as he backed a UK charity fundraising appeal. The Olympian said it "hurts to see children without...
International aid agencies on Saturday slammed South Sudan's decision to raise foreign worker visa fees to as much as $10,000 (9,300 euros), warning it would worsen a humanitarian crisis in the...
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....
Several residents of Kwamipong Nkwanta have been rendered homeless after a two-day windstorm ripped off the roofs of their homes and collapsed some structures. Affected residents have converted...
Somalia's prime minister said Saturday that at least 110 people had died from drought and drought-related illnesses on Thursday and Friday, the first reported deaths since the country declared a...
Somali's newly elected President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" due to severe drought which aid agencies say has left some three million in crisis. The Horn of...
Thousands of people at the epicentre of a man-made famine in South Sudan emerged from the safety of the swamps this past weekend hoping to receive emergency deliveries of food. For months now Bol...
Thousands of people at the epicentre of a man-made famine in South Sudan emerged from the safety of the swamps this past weekend hoping to receive emergency deliveries of food. For months now Bol...
UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen O'Brien warned Monday in Yemen that the war-torn and impoverished country faces "serious risk of famine" unless international donors step up their response. The...
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including 313 asylum seekers, who fled the insurgency by militant Islamist group Boko...
UN aid agencies need $4.4 billion in emergency funding to address famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. More than 20 million people...
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir vowed Tuesday that government would ensure aid could reach areas hit by famine after three years of war that has restricted access for humanitarian workers. The...
