Informes

By KENNEDY KIMANTHI A Member of Parliament from Meru County has appealed to the national government to supply relief food to drought-stricken Tigania residents. Tigania West MP David Karithi said there was an acute food and water shortage…

Flooding in parts Unity State may affect crop progress KEY MESSAGES South Sudan received moderate to heavy rains during the first dekad of July with the heaviest rains in northern Unity State (Figure 1). Rainfall in northern Unity was…

People With Disabilities Left Behind in HIV Response Remove Barriers to HIV Education, Testing, and Treatment (Lusaka, July 15, 2014) – The nearly two million people with disabilities in Zambia face significant barriers to HIV prevention, testing, and…

Kenya: Victims still seeking justice for the post-election violence The government’s continued failure to properly investigate crimes committed during the 2007-2008 post-election violence and to provide justice and reparation for its victims is having a devastating impact…

WASHINGTON, Jul 15 2014 (IPS) - Even as aid workers are warning that children in South Sudan are falling victim to mass malnutrition, international agencies are said to be missing their fundraising goals to avert a…

The Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism in collaboration with the SADC secretariat has launched the Monitoring of the Environment for Security in Africa (MESA) initiative in Botswana. In his keynote address at the launch, the acting…

LILONGWE, Malawi – “I started having an affair with a grown man when I turned 11. I was in the final year of my primary education,” recalls Mercy Jackson, a girl from the Chikhwawa District in…

EL FASHER (14 Jul.) - There are currently 2,308,992 people displaced in the five states of Darfur. Among them are 82,530 orphans, 34,099 widows, and 52,352 infirm and elderly, according to a survey conducted by the Darfur…

July 14, 2014 (MABIOR) – Aid agencies are due to begin air drops of food items in Jonglei state’s Duk county this week, officials said. “Food will be dropped by air in Duk, that will be the…

July 15, 14 (MABIOR) – There has been a sharp increase in the number of hepatitis E infections over the past three months in South Sudan’s Lakes state, with 55 cases reported in June, up from…