MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving assistance to drought-affected communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) s...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The UK government is providing £11.6 million (approximately $15 million) for Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar and local people affected by disasters across Bangladesh. The new package of UK support (160 Crore Taka) will provide food, water, and sanitation to Rohingya refugees, and child protection services to ref...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and “violent fighting” between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA): About 9 out of 10 families in cash-strapped Lebanon do not have enough money to buy necessities, the United Nations children’s agency has said. “Families in Lebanon are barely able to meet their most basic needs despite cutting down drastically on expenses,” UNICEF said in a statement. “A growing number of families [&hell...
Taez, Yemen (AFP): Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to join the queues at the nearest public dispenser. He and his three siblings walk at least a mile and wait, sometimes for hours, hoping to fill their jerry cans and make it […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Two Afghan girls educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan — one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces. Ruya Serferaz (18) and her English class friend Besbegum Havari (19) set off every day regardless of adverse weather conditions, and teach Persian, English, mathematics, ...
Jindayris, Syria (AFP): In a dusty Syrian camp for earthquake survivors, school pupils line up and wait for a colourful bus to pull up. Since the disaster hit, they go to a classroom on wheels. School bags on their backs and notebooks in hand, the children took off their shoes before entering the bus, then […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): At least 11 babies have died in an orphanage in Sudan as a result of the ongoing clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to local medics. Medics blame malnutrition and frequent power cuts for the deaths at the Mygoma Orphanage in the capital Khartoum. The violence has […]
Hazano, Syria (AFP): One cold winter night, Syrian Ibrahim Othman went out to pray and came home cradling a baby girl, abandoned at the doorstep of the village mosque just hours after she was born. “I took her home and told my wife, ‘I brought you a gift’,” said the 59-year-old resident of Hazano, in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA): The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, warned of a “children’s crisis” in Afghanistan on Thursday with nearly 16 million children going to bed hungry. “They don’t have clean water to quench their thirst or blankets in which to sleep,” Fran Equiza, UNICEF Afghanistan representative, told...
