Ethiopian drought leading to ‘dramatic’ increase in child marriage, Unicef warns
With hunger across Horn of Africa and 600,000 children out of school, ‘desperate’ parents push more girls into early marriage Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are...
Category : Global development
‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
Tropics lost 11.1m hectares of tree cover in 2021, including forest critical to limiting global heating and biodiversity loss, finds World Resources Institute Pristine rainforests...
Janjaweed militia blamed for attacks that left at least 200 dead in Darfur
Death toll likely to rise, say witnesses to indiscriminate attacks on Kreinik and El Geneina by Sudan’s notorious Rapid Support Forces At least 200 people...
Tanzania’s Maasai appeal to west to stop eviction for conservation plans
Thousands of Indigenous people sign letter to UK, US and EU protesting at appropriation of land for tourist safaris and hunting Thousands of Maasai pastoralists...
Raising cash for water: why Somalis are bypassing aid agencies in drought crisis
Analysis: with more than 6 million people in need, there is anger at perceived lack of action from the government and the UN The UN...
Colombia urged to investigate botched army raid that left four civilians dead
March raid in remote Putumayo village was intended to target former Farc dissidents now involved in cocaine trade Colombian authorities are facing growing calls to...
Médecins Sans Frontières suspends operations in parts of Cameroon over detained staff
Health charity in an ‘untenable position’ in anglophone parts of the country as it is accused of taking sides in internal strife Medical charity Médecins...
Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups
Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses Ethiopian paramilitaries of war crimes and crimes against humanity Ethiopian paramilitaries have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in...
How war in Ukraine is affecting food supply in Africa and the Middle East
Prices of basics such as oil and wheat are shooting up and shortages are showing on supermarket shelves in Lebanon, Somalia and Egypt Global food...
First food aid for 100 days enters Tigray under ‘humanitarian truce’
Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food A convoy of aid trucks has arrived in Tigray, the...
