Haiti receives its first batch of cholera vaccines to tackle deadly outbreak
Campaign to stem the spread of the disease takes place against a backdrop of political chaos, gang violence and fuel shortages Haiti has received its...
Category : Conflict and arms
Nobel prize winner criticises western ‘neglect’ and urges action over DRC violence
Denis Mukwege has demanded sanctions be imposed on Rwanda to ease the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo The west must ditch its...
Starvation being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan, report reveals
International community urged to intervene as hundreds of thousands forced into refugee camps as homes and crops destroyed and aid workers attacked Starvation is being...
‘Humanitarian crime’: fighting cuts off insulin supply in Tigray
International Diabetic Federation decries reports ongoing war has led to shortages of life-saving drug at Ethiopian region’s biggest hospital Doctors at the biggest hospital in...
Sudan accused of trying to ‘bury the truth’ with mass graves for protesters
Families demand DNA tests to identify if their relatives are among thousands of unclaimed bodies in hospital morgues The families of those missing after three...
Death toll reaches 36 in eastern DRC as protesters turn on UN peacekeepers
With elections due next year, analysts fear political motives could be driving the rising violence and tensions in the region Fears of a new wave...
Eritrean refugees say they are being arbitrarily detained in Ethiopian camps
Tigrinya speakers say they face beatings, detention and privation, and blame UN for ‘abandoning’ them, despite right to be in Ethiopia Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia...
Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation
Calls for aid to be let into Port-au-Prince district after ‘battlefield’ violence leaves dozens dead and cuts supplies of food and water Haiti’s capital has...
More than 4,000 arrested in Amhara as Ethiopia cracks down on militia
At least 19 journalists caught up in mass detentions after government moves against Fano, its former ally in Tigray conflict Ethiopia has launched a sweeping...
‘You hear bullets, you run’: Congolese refugees stream over Uganda’s border
As thousands flee the latest fighting in DRC to join 1.5m already in Uganda, the UN’s food aid agency is stretched as never before The...
