by Contributed | Apr 20, 2022 | Blog
By Hillary ORINDE Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned Tuesday. A months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian...
by Contributed | Apr 14, 2022 | Blog
By Robin MILLARD The WHO chief said Wednesday that the world was treating humanitarian crises affecting black and white lives unequally, with only a “fraction” of the attention on Ukraine given elsewhere. World Health Organization’s director-general...
by Contributed | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
Ethiopia on Thursday failed to block the United Nations from funding an international committee that will investigate human rights violations by all parties in the nation’s recent war. The International Commission of Human Rights Experts (ICHRE) on Ethiopia was...
by Contributed | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog
The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels on Tuesday accused each other of blocking a humanitarian aid convoy carrying emergency supplies for a starving population in the northern region. On March 24, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government announced “an...
by Contributed | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES As it rushes to help Ukrainian refugees, the West must not divert aid from poor countries also suffering from the fallout of the war, the head of a major refugee aid organisation warned. “In my 40 years as a humanitarian worker, I have...
