Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
In summary Families are spending nights in the bush, parents are separated from their children and 15 primary have been closed down But government representatives say the operation has stopped Richard Esongori, 36, from Olmekenyu village in Narok South left his home in Kisii in 1994 to Mau where he …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/07/2018 regarding removal of encroachments from Thatkola Reserve Forest, Sargodu Reserve Forest and Maskali Reserve Forest in the State of Karnataka. Counsel for the State of …
Indications have emerged that Nigeria faces drastic food shortage and price hike in the nearest future if herders-farmers' clashes in the North Central Nigeria continue unabated. These are hinged on displacement or killings of farming households in the conflict zones. The UN Commission for Refugees said in April that over …
Khartoum — During Sudan's lean season, from May to July, the number of Sudanese requiring food assistance is expected to rise to six million. In particularly displaced people in North Darfur, parts of South Darfur and South Kordofan need aid, as staple food prices increase at the beginning of the …
How do international and regional tools and services support disaster response in Asia-Pacific? Asia-Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region, so disaster management is a regional priority. Over the past decade, most countries in the region have established national disaster management authorities and systems that are increasingly capable of managing …
The “land question” has invigorated agrarian studies and economic history since Marx and early 20th century writers on agrarian questions. In countries that allow private land ownership, compulsory land acquisition is the right and action of the government to take property not owned by it for public use. In the …
Nearly 19-million people were displaced because of climate change in 2017‚ said a senior UN climate leader at the opening of a global conference on climate adaptation in Cape Town on Tuesday. "That is 2‚000 people an hour being displaced; 33 people a minute‚" said Ovais Sarmad‚ deputy executive secretary …
Heavy rains last night caused flooding in parts of Accra, trapping some residents in their homes, submerging vehicles and destroying properties. Hundreds of residents have been left homeless. The west of the capital, which is a low laying area, is worst affected.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Refugee Agency (UNHCR) launched a new handbook to help restore forests in displacement-affected areas, where heavy reliance on woodfuel puts forests and woodlands in jeopardy. An estimated 2.4 billion people - about a quarter of the global population - depend on …
The UN Refugee Agency released its annual Global Trends study, a report that finds 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world at the end of 2017, primarily because of war and conflict. Seven of the Top 10 source countries of refugees were on the African …
In recent years, the Republic of South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, has often been in the headlines due to the protracted armed conflict which has engulfed the country since December 2013. However, despite the challenges posed by the conflict, the landlocked eastern-central Africa country has been working with UN …
Maiduguri — Flooding has left more than 12 000 refugees displaced by the Boko Haram terror group homeless in northeastern Nigeria. The Borno State, which is the epicentre of the terrorism by the Muslim extremists, is worst hit by the strong winds and sandstorms that have wreaked varying degrees of …
The country’s attempts to protect its forests have been undermining the rights of indigenous people living on the land. Evans Kemore, a human rights activist based in Nakuru, says: “We have been evicted many times. We have been socially, physically and physicologically tortured with our families. It is a shame.” …
At least 21 people have been killed and a thousand others affected by floods and storm due to heavy rains pounding parts of the Horn of Africa nation, the UN relief agency said on Friday night. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said floods and storm which …
Hundreds of residents in different sub-counties in Butaleja District have been displaced by floods from River Manafwa. Over 150 houses have been submerged and household items such as beddings, clothes, domestic birds and animals have been washed away by the floods leaving residents in tears following the Wednesday down pour …
Two were killed, and more than 100 families displaced after three dams burst. [Robert Kiplagat, Standard] Two people have died and more than 100 families left homeless after water spilled from three dams, submerging homes in Nairagie Enkare in Narok East sub-county. The waters submerged at least five churches, destroyed …
Ongoing heavy rains in mountainous eastern Uganda have left over 150,000 people homeless, a top government official said on Friday. Musa Ecweru, minister of state for disaster preparedness and refugees, told Xinhua in an interview that the people are now staying in schools and churches in the low lands in …
Conflict and disasters displaced 30.6 million people within their own countries last year, according to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). This is the equivalent of more than 80,000 people displaced each day. The scale of this displacement is dishearteningly …
(AFP) - Weeks of torrential rain after a long drought have turned from blessing to curse in East Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others. In Kenya, which had suffered from three failed rainy seasons, 120 people have died in two months, including eight who …
More than a month of heavy rains and the floods afterwards have claimed an estimated 100 lives and displaced nearly 260,000 people in Kenya, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Thursday. The floods may also trigger or worsen outbreaks of disease such as malaria …
