Zimbabwe
Fifty-one-year old Sarah Mupakati does not remember the last time she ate sadza, a cooked cornmeal. She opens her one-room tent which she shares with her five grown-up children - the corner that serves as her…
Somalia
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Somaliland Business Fund (SBF) is supporting private sector development in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, manufacturing, and green energy The SBF has awarded more than $10.5 million in grants to investment projects and $10 million in matching…
Ethiopia
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Ethiopian government recently signed a $10 million grant agreement with the World Bank Group to help the country implement approaches to sustainably and equitably manage its forests as a contribution to its vision of…
South Sudan
Situation Update As of 3 August 2014, a total of 5,561 cholera cases including 122 deaths (CFR 2.2%) had been reported in South Sudan.
Ethiopia + 1 more
As a result of armed conflict in South Sudan which began in mid-December 2013, an estimated 1.1 million people were internally displaced, and over 430,000 refugees fled South Sudan to Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, and Kenya. Refugees…
South Sudan
By Suzanne Beukes BENTIU, South Sudan, 1 August 2014 – Veronica Nyapar Kai plucks the dry reeds from the muddy soil and lays them in a neat pile. For the past few months, these reeds have served…
South Sudan
Situation Update As of 2 August 2014, a total of 5,536 cholera cases including 121 deaths (CFR 2.2%) had been reported in South Sudan as summarized in Tables 1 and 2.
Sudan
EAST JEBEL MARRA (1 Aug.) - An aircraft of the Sudanese Air Force dropped bombs and killed two children in Dolma, East Jebel Marra, on Friday morning. Residents in the area have fled the bombardments, in…
Sudan
NYALA (1 Aug.)The internally displaced living in camps in South Darfur, have complained about poor economic conditions and the reluctance of aid organisations to provide health and education services to them. A displaced woman in El Batari…
Somalia
Mogadishu, 1 August 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, has condemned the murder today of Sheikh Aden Madeer, a Member of the Somali Federal Parliament, and expressed his…
