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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
12/7/2021 9:17:13 PM
Tigray’s humanitarian suffering is bound to worsen following the Ethiopian government’s latest military moves, reports Haitham Nouri
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World
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Region
12/3/2021 12:24:05 AM
Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that are ‘progressively getting worse’, with drought, economic collapse and displacement all pushing the population into catastrophic hunger, a senior international aid official said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
12/3/2021 12:19:42 AM
The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people - who together would amount to the world's fourth most-populous country - will require emergency humanitarian aid next year in countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Syria and Yemen which face a raft of challenges including war, insecurity, hunger, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
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World
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Africa
11/24/2021 7:10:53 PM
Ethiopia has ordered four of six Irish diplomats working in Addis Ababa to leave the country because of Ireland's outspoken stance over the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia, Ireland's government said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
11/19/2021 3:44:17 PM
More than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U.S. for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic U.S. withdrawal, but only about 100 of them have been approved, according to federal officials.
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World
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Region
11/15/2021 10:31:00 PM
President Alexander Lukashenko spoke Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border and a request from Merkel to allow in humanitarian aid, Belarus state media said.
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World
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International
11/10/2021 10:15:09 PM
After days of waiting in the choppy central Mediterranean, a charity rescue ship with 306 migrants aboard on Wednesday received permission by Italy to disembark the passengers just as a storm approached, the humanitarian organization said.
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World
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International
11/7/2021 2:12:06 PM
A German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants aboard was sailing to Sicily on Sunday after being granted permission by Italian authorities after days of waiting at sea.
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World
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Africa
11/6/2021 10:19:44 AM
The U.N. Security Council called for an end to the intensifying and expanding conflict in Ethiopia on Friday, and for unhindered access for humanitarian aid to tackle the world's worst hunger crisis in a decade in the war-torn Tigray region.
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World
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Africa
11/4/2021 12:32:29 PM
A rebel march on Ethiopia's capital would worsen the country's severe humanitarian crisis, already fanned by "egregious" government obstruction, a senior US official said on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
11/3/2021 9:14:18 PM
The European Commission (EC) said Wednesday it has allocated emergency humanitarian funding of 2 million euros (about 2.3 million US dollars) for those affected by recent floods that have caused havoc in South Sudan.
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World
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Region
11/3/2021 9:13:13 PM
Libyan authorities and the United Nations' migration agency on Wednesday repatriated 91 migrants to Niger, mainly women and young children, in a rare humanitarian flight.
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World
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International
11/1/2021 5:27:22 PM
Former US ambassador and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is heading to Myanmar on a private humanitarian mission that will focus on pandemic support, his spokesperson said Sunday.
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World
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International
10/25/2021 10:59:14 AM
More than 22 million Afghans will suffer "acute food insecurity" this winter, UN agencies said Monday, warning the already unstable country faces one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/24/2021 10:52:00 AM
Ongoing warfare in Marib, Al-Bayda, Shabwah and elsewhere in Yemen has created one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, second only to the manmade famine caused by the Ethiopian government’s war in the Tigray.
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World
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Africa
10/20/2021 11:27:43 AM
A new airstrike has hit the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, residents said Wednesday, while the United Nations said it is slashing by more than half its Tigray presence as a government blockade halts humanitarian aid efforts and people die from lack of food.
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World
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Africa
10/18/2021 2:25:16 PM
Ethiopian forces hit the Tigrayan capital of Mekele with air strikes on Monday, humanitarian officials and diplomats told AFP, in a new phase of the nearly year-long war in the country's north.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/15/2021 2:59:29 PM
Yemen’s Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik, called upon the international community to exercise the maximum pressure, including sanctions, against the Houthi militias.
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World
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Africa
10/13/2021 12:01:54 PM
Fighting has resumed in northern Ethiopia's Afar region after a month-long lull, humanitarian and rebel sources told AFP Wednesday, as the government appeared to be pressing a new offensive.
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World
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International
10/12/2021 7:57:54 PM
The Italian government, which holds the G-20 presidency, said the aim of the meeting was to address ``urgent'' humanitarian support for Afghans, the fight against terrorism and freedom of movement for Afghans inside the country and out
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