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...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – At least 450,000 children in Sudan have been forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing fighting, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. For weeks the conflict-hit African nation has been engulfed by violence between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. An estimated 82,000...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AA): For improving infrastructure and supporting humanitarian projects in Afghanistan, seven agreements were signed on Friday during the annual meeting of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group. The four-day event, which started in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, saw dozens of international deals signed in many fields, ...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): The Malian army reportedly executed at least 500 people during an operation assisted by French troops in central Mali in March 2022, it came to light in a report released on Friday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. OHCHR “has reasonable grounds to believe that at least 500 people were […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – At least 17 children died when the boat they were traveling in capsized Tuesday in the Dandeji River in the Shagari Local Government Area of northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto State. An official of the state government, Aluyu Dantani, told Anadolu that their bodies were recovered by local divers. He said they were [&helli...
GENEVA (AA) – Some 4.3 million people in northeast Nigeria are likely to face severe hunger during the lean season from June to August, the UN warned on Friday. Jens Laerke, the spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a UN weekly press briefing that the period between harvests, […]
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Sudan’s already troubled health sector faces the risk of “disaster” after more than two weeks of heavy fighting have rocked the poverty-stricken country, a UN World Health Organization official warns. Even before the deadly conflict broke out on April 15, “the healthcare system in Sudan faced numerou...
