UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy
Britain is no longer the key humanitarian player and ‘great ally’ it once was, says envoy trying to get support for Somalia’s drought The UK...
Category : Global development
Tigrayan rebels accused by survivors of killing dozens of civilians in Kobo
Witnesses claim TPLF rebels tortured and killed in town in Amhara last month in search for supporters of Ethiopian federal forces Tigrayan rebel forces have...
Health workers among dead in Ugandan Ebola outbreak
MSF calls situation ‘very serious’ as east African country grapples with outbreak of Sudan strain of virus, for which no vaccine exists It seems like...
African countries urge rich nations to honour $100bn climate finance pledge
Ministers rebuke ‘shameful’ failure to meet funding promises for poorer countries to cope with climate crisis ahead of Cop27 summit Ministers and high-ranking officials of...
‘Shocking blow to Indigenous land rights’ as court dismisses Maasai herder claim
Herders lodge appeal against ruling in their case against the Tanzanian government, which they say is violently evicting them from ancestral land Lawyers for Maasai...
Sudan faces ‘generational catastrophe’ as millions of children miss school
Floods, militia raids and hunger mean a third of children are not in school at all, while the rest have too few teachers, aid groups...
Sudan campaigners demand action after alarming rise in ‘honour killings’
Reported deaths more than double in a year, with women attacked by male relatives for appearing to talk to men on smartphones Campaigners are calling...
Young people demand climate justice in run-up to Cop27 UN talks
Activists from global south demand recompense for damage from countries most responsible for crisis Young people from some of the countries most affected by climate...
Venezuela’s mining region a hotbed of sex trafficking and violence, UN says
Fact-finding mission reports brutal massacres and sexual slavery in gold-rich arc where armed gangs fight for control Struggling to get by amid Venezuela’s runaway inflation,...
Prince Harry wildlife NGO under fire after elephants kill three in Malawi
African Parks, of which the prince is president, is one of three parties accused of rushing a mass translocation of the mammals Two wildlife organisations,...
