Southern African ministers are meeting in Mozambique to prepare for next month's summit of the African Union. Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Democratic Republic of Congo are major topics of discussion. Foreign ministers of the Southern African Development...
The World Health Organization says the situation in Southern Sudan is far worse than in the conflict-ridden province of Darfur. Lisa Schlein | Geneva 20 December 2009 The World Health Organization (WHO) says Southern Sudan is all but forgotten since...
The humanitarian crisis is deepening in Gaza, following Israel's 22-day offensive that Palestinian officials said killed nearly 1,300 people. Now, Israel says it is considering a prisoner swap to win the release of an Israeli soldier held in Gaza, s...
Israel ordered a temporary halt to its military operations in Gaza for several hours Wednesday to allow aid to reach civilians in the territory through humanitarian corridors. Israel also says it is studying proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza, but fi...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met on Monday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and a European Union delegation to discuss ways to reach an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. While diplomatic talks have been unsuccessful in ending the viol...
United Nations agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa region. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, the agencies are calling on donor countries to provide more funds to stem a worsening crisis in Somalia, Ethi...
The top U.N. humanitarian official says that conflict, drought, and the global food crisis are worsening the already dire situation in the Horn of Africa. This has left millions of people needing emergency food assistance to combat severe food short...
By Suzanne Presto New York 31 August 2007 The U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Margareta Wahlstrom, says the humanitarian situation in Sudan's western Darfur region is worsening. From...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 May 2007 Newly arrived internally displaced ethnic Tamils prepare themselves to be registered with camp officials in Kiran, Sri Lanka (File Photo) The World Food Program warns renewed fighting in Sri Lanka's long-running civ...
By Phuong Tran Goz Beida, Chad 16 May 2007 In Chad, people are still arriving at camps to escape ethnic violence and bandit attacks along the Sudanese border. Humanitarian workers are often the first to reach out to people escaping from burning villa...