Humanitarian

Harare/Berlin – Families in Zimbabwe whose loved ones have gone missing migrating to other countries face serious challenges in the search for their relatives according to the fourth in a series of reports from the International Organization of Migration’s (IOM) Global Migration Data Analysis Centre. The report, Families of missing migrants in Zimbabwe: Their search for answers, the impacts of loss […]

Mekelle – After months in makeshift sites, with little food or water, thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by the conflict in Northern Ethiopia are being voluntarily relocated to new shelters by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The IDPs, many of whom have been forced to sleep in the open without hygiene facilities, […]

ADDIS ABABA –  As conflict spills across Northern Ethiopia, forcing 300,000 people from their homes and 1.7 million into hunger in Afar and Amhara provinces, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced an unprecedented funding gap of $US426 million across its operation in Ethiopia and appealed for funds to meet the needs of […]

Walvis Bay — The fishing industry should come up with better social responsibility projects instead of dishing out a few tins of fish and food parcels, as this does not yield the desired impact of shared natural resources as envisioned. This is according to fisheries minister Derek Klazen, who was responding to questions raised by […]

The UN humanitarian agency on Thursday called for sustained funding to enable aid agencies to scale up life-saving assistance in Somalia. Adam Abdelmoula, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said in a statement issued in Mogadishu that with limited resources and funding, humanitarian agencies in Somalia need urgent support to provide timely response. Abdelmoula said as the […]

London, UK, September 3, 2021 — In just the past eight months, over 23,000 people have been intercepted at sea and returned to Libya after trying to reach safety in Europe – almost double the total for the whole of 2020 and the highest number on record since interceptions by the Libyan Coast Guard began in 2017, the […]