DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh urged a visiting US delegation on Wednesday to come up with fresh financial assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district who have been badly affected by a recent UN cut in food rations. The high-profile US team held meetings with Bangladeshi officials, Rohingya leaders and UN agencies and other do...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Car bombs killed at least eight people including three children in two separate incidents Sunday in northern Syria, a war monitor said. One blast hit a car repair shop in Shawa, a village near the Turkish border held by pro-Ankara fighters, residents told AFP. Five civilians including three children were killed and [&hel...
Jenin, Palestine (AFP): As Israeli forces pulled out of Jenin after a brutal military onslaught, its Palestinian residents came back to assess the devastation: trashed homes, charred cars and roads strewn with rubble, glass and bullet casings. The West Bank city has endured violence before, but the latest offensive was the heaviest in years, w...
JERUSALEM (AA): A BBC anchor has criticized the recent Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, in which at least 12 Palestinians were killed and more than 140 others injured. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, five minors were among the fatalities. “Israeli forces are happy to kill children,” presenter Anjana Gadgil [&...
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, ...
