Tag: war
A cholera epidemic threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Sudan and Chad, worsened by ongoing conflict and inadequate health infrastructure. Containing the outbreak requires urgent priority actions, alongside improved coordination between the WHO, UNHCR, NGOs, and local authorities. The situation in Sudan and Chad is critical. A cholera epidemic threatens hundreds […]
While millions of people in Africa flee the forgotten violence of Sudan, the DRC, and the Sahel, the new escalation between Israel and Iran threatens to plunge the Middle East into a full-scale conflict, at a time when Gaza is already ravaged by months of bombardment and blockade. These tragedies, though geographically distant, are linked […]
The war in Sudan has plunged millions of people into an alarming humanitarian crisis, endangering the lives and future of 16 million children. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the war in Sudan has exposed over 12 million people to pervasive violence, particularly sexual harassment, used to terrify the entire population. As the […]
The Human Rights Agency (ADH) has warned about the severity of the situation in Sudan, describing it as a major humanitarian crisis. Already ravaged by a civil war that began in April 2023, the country is also suffering from the catastrophic effects of climate change. Over 12 million people have been displaced or made refugees, […]
After thirteen months of war in Sudan, half of the population of this northeast African country needs humanitarian aid, or 25 million people. The fighting in Sudan has had a terrible impact on millions of civilians and famine threatens many localities more than ever. Hostilities between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support […]
Palmyra, Syria, is another scar on a site martyred by terrorists. A few weeks ago, it was dynamited by the terrorist group of Daesh (ISIS) and the explosions disfigured it. For Wail Hafian, director of antiquities in Homs “What Daesh did here is a crime, but these are just scratches on the face of this […]
Driven for days to flee the war in Aleppo, thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, are waiting in the cold to go to Turkey that for the moment keeps its border closed. The governor of the Turkish province of Kilis, Suleyman Tapsiz, discussed the “possibility” that this wave reaches 70,000. Thousands of homeless Syrians […]
How long the men of war are there? Researchers have found in Kenya a set of skeletons bearing traces of fatal injury, suggesting a “mass murder” 10,000 years ago when prehistoric man was not yet settled. “These remains testify to the intentional killing of a small group of people in search of food. They provide […]
It will cost $2.3 billion to send to school the 34 million children and adolescents of conflict–affected countries who are currently not attending educational institutions, which is 10 times the amount being received from humanitarian aid now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a new report released today. “Present targets […]
A new campaign launched by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) aims to bring education opportunities to 400,000 children whose schooling has been interrupted by the conflict in South Sudan. UNICEF’s ‘Back to Learning’ campaign, which was launched in Juba today by the agency and the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir, will reach out-of-school […]
