Humanitarian needs continue to rise in Afghanistan as conflict and recurrent natural disasters affect millions of Afghans and cause civilian casualties and displacement every year. So far in 2012, about 300 natural disasters have affected more than 200,000 people. The planned withdrawal of the International Security...
At the height of the drought in Kenya last year, when an estimated 3.8 million people needed food assistance, World Vision International (WVI) launched a school feeding programme to reach the children hardest hit by the crisis in the Kajiado region, southwestern Kenya.
An allocation of US$150,000 from the OCHA-...
Security operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not all of them have...
“Help! Help! Evariste, Evariste, please open the door!”
Early on the morning of 17 December 2011, Evariste Dindaye was woken by a man’s hysterical shouting. When Evariste opened his door, the panic-stricken man blurted out: “My wife is about to have a baby and she’s in excruciating pain! Please...
More than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum.
The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to regularize their status or...
6 July 2012 - 3:34pmHumanitarian needs continue to rise in Afghanistan as conflict and recurrent natural disasters affect millions of Afghans and cause civilian casualties and displacement every year. So far in 2012, about 300 natural disasters have affected more than 200,000 people. The planned withdrawal of the International Security...
12 June 2012 - 5:42pmAt the height of the drought in Kenya last year, when an estimated 3.8 million people needed food assistance, World Vision International (WVI) launched a school feeding programme to reach the children hardest hit by the crisis in the Kajiado region, southwestern Kenya. An allocation of US$150,000 from the OCHA-...
5 June 2012 - 5:37pmSecurity operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not all of them have...
1 June 2012 - 4:19pm“Help! Help! Evariste, Evariste, please open the door!” Early on the morning of 17 December 2011, Evariste Dindaye was woken by a man’s hysterical shouting. When Evariste opened his door, the panic-stricken man blurted out: “My wife is about to have a baby and she’s in excruciating pain! Please...
25 May 2012 - 10:23amMore than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum. The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to regularize their status or...