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Sudan Provides Humanitarian Aid to South Sudan

Sudan Provides Humanitarian Aid to South Sudan

President Omar al-Bashir has directed the dispatch of 10,000 tons of sorghum in humanitarian assistance to famine-affected South Sudanese. The Rapporteur of the High Committee for Humanitarian Aid, Ahmed Mohamed Adam, said 27,000 sacks of sorghum have been delivered before in accordance with the President orders, besides opening routes to facilitate transportation of the international […]

Fury As Mugabe Travels Amid Floods Disaster, Rivals Say President Has No Sense of Shame

Fury As Mugabe Travels Amid Floods Disaster, Rivals Say President Has No Sense of Shame

“Mugabe has no sense of proportionality, his moral height is very low and his priorities are abysmal. What would we expect from a mummy?” PDP secretary general Godern Moyo. PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has come under fire for his obsession with foreign trips while failing to spare the slightest of moments to visit citizens who have […]

United Nations in Urgent Call for Aid to Flood Victims in Zimbabwe

United Nations in Urgent Call for Aid to Flood Victims in Zimbabwe

FOLLOWING heavy floods which have killed 251 people and displaced over 2000 countrywide, the United Nations has called on the humanitarian and development partners to scale up their support to the affected communities. According to UN, livelihoods have been disrupted while the infrastructure including roads, bridges, schools and water sources have sustained heavy damages, mainly […]

Akon Funds 5 Million Dalasi Lighting Project in Gambia

Akon Funds 5 Million Dalasi Lighting Project in Gambia

Papa Yusupha Njie the CEO of Unique Solution, said Akon, the Senegalese American singer gave five million Dalasi to a project called Akon Light Project at Sarreh Pateh to light up the village. This was revealed at a press conference held at Coco Ocean on 5th March, 2017 organised by ‘Give 1 Project Gambia’ in […]

Can Aid Come in Time to Avert Famine in Somalia?

Can Aid Come in Time to Avert Famine in Somalia?

The drought in Somalia is so severe it threatens not only to trigger famine, but also the viability of the age-old pastoralist way of life. Somalis are tough and resourceful, but this is the third consecutive year of failed rains. Whatever resilience remains is being tested to the limit. On the road out of Garowe, […]

Somalia Starvation Kills Over 100 As Famine Looms

Somalia Starvation Kills Over 100 As Famine Looms

The UN has said 5 million people are at risk, and thousands have already begun streaming into the capital in search of food. Aid efforts are being hampered by a lack of international response and conflict on the ground. Somalia’s prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died of hunger in the past 48 […]

Mozambique Counts Deadly Cost of Dineo

Mozambique Counts Deadly Cost of Dineo

CASH strapped Mozambique is appealing for funds to curb multiple crisis posed by the destructive Cyclone Dineo. The cyclone, accompanied by winds of 160 kilometers per hour, has dissipated to neighbouring Zimbabwe and South Africa, but has left a trail of devastation in Mozambique. The cyclone killed seven and injured over 101 people. About 550 […]

Truck load of donated books stuck at Beitbridge due to tax reports demands from ZIMRA

Truck load of donated books stuck at Beitbridge due to tax reports demands from ZIMRA

Thirty tons of school books collected in Bedfordview and meant for distribution to schools in Zimbabwe are stuck at Beitbridge Border Post because the state revenue authority is demanding tax, reports say. The official Herald newspaper says the books were destined for 11 schools in Bulawayo, near where President Robert Mugabe held his birthday party […]

South Sudan Govt Accused of Blocking Aid, Despite Famine

South Sudan Govt Accused of Blocking Aid, Despite Famine

The head of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says the government there should make sure that aid agencies can reach people who are starving. On Monday, three U.N. aid agencies declared famine exists in two counties of South Sudan. UNMISS chief David Shearer said the government was still blocking aid by delaying paperwork […]

The al-Qaeda threat in Mali presents a new challenge to U.N. peacekeepers making it world’s most dangerous U.N. mission

The al-Qaeda threat in Mali presents a new challenge to U.N. peacekeepers making it world’s most dangerous U.N. mission

Since World War II, U.N. peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts — civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda. Here in the vast, lawless desert of northwest Africa, their convoys are being torn apart by improvised explosive devices and their compounds blasted by 1,000-pound […]

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