Rome, 12 September 2022. To harness the development benefits of using mobile channels to send and receive remittances, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced today its first grant to a digital payments company, MFS Africa, to promote the use of mobile remittances in marginal rural areas in five African countries: Ghana, Kenya, […]
Mogadishu, 12 September 2022 –More than half of children aged under five in Somalia are facing acute malnutrition with one in six suffering from the most deadly form as time to fend off famine starts to run out, Save the Children said today following the release of new hunger figures. New IPC figures said the […]
DAKAR, 15 September 2022 – More than 150,000 people, of which about half are children, have been severely affected by floods in Niger and Nigeria in recent weeks, Save the Children said today. The torrential rain is expected to continue in southern Niger and northern Nigeria until end of September, which could lead to further […]
Climate change is deepening hunger in 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia and Zimbabwe. These countries – which had the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events – have repeatedly been battered by extreme weather over the last two decades. Today, […]
The Zimbabwean government, through the Ministry of ICTs, gazetted Statutory Instrument 95 of 2021 to bring into effect the TTMS. The TTMS was launched in May 2022 and is now being used by POTRAZ, the sector’s regulator. Introduction This report outlines deliberations of an engagement meeting among MISA Zimbabwe, The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe, the […]
Saddam Mohamed and Travis Nichols Before last year’s drought, Nurta Hassan Hussein, 25, had 100 cows and 80 goats. But by September of 2021, only three cows and five goats remained. The lack of water and pastureland forced Nurta and her first child to leave their home for a displaced-population camp in nearby Dhobley. “I […]
KHARTOUM, Monday 12 September 2022 – Approximately 6.9 million girls and boys, one in three school-aged children, do not go to school in Sudan, and a further 12 million will have their school years heavily interrupted by a lack of sufficient teachers, infrastructure, and an enabling learning environment to make them reach their full potential. […]
Africa is sitting on a climate time-bomb. Across the continent, children and young people – including those not yet born – will suffer the financial, social and environmental costs of the climate crisis for decades, if not centuries to come. One of the paradoxes of the climate crisis is that those who are primarily responsible […]
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR Representative in Uganda, Matthew Crentsil – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Amid surging humanitarian needs for 96,000 refugees who have fled to Uganda so far this year, UNHCR, the UN Refugee […]
(Juba, 08 September 2022) The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms. Sara Beysolow Nyanti, is deeply concerned by the latest round of violence in Upper Nile State, and its consequences on civilians. Since mid-August, thousands of people have been displaced across many areas of Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Unity states following heavy fighting between armed […]