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The warring parties in Sudan's civil war have traded blame for an attack on a U.N. World Food Programme convoy trying to bring aid to an area of North Darfur where fighting and blockades have led to ...
Sudan's army has denied bombing a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy taking aid to a famine-hit area in the country's Darfur ...
The WFP said three of the convoy’s 16 trucks were damaged and caught fire, but all staff were safe. The organization is ...
Exacerbated by the Israel-Hamas conflict, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has exposed challenges in delivering aid to a population facing starvation and destruction. By August 2025, over ...
Analysis - From Sudan to the DRC and Mozambique, armed groups prey on refugees to instil fear and consolidate power.
Sudan’s army on Thursday denied accusations by the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it had bombed an aid convoy in North Darfur, instead blaming the paramilitary group for the attack. The ...
WITH OUR full refrigerators, we in the West have no real understanding of what true hunger means. A prolonged lack of calories and essential nutrients is a profound horror and one of the most terrible ...
Aunts, uncles, cousins and other family of Palestinian Americans in the Milwaukee area have been displaced or killed, sometimes dozens at a time.
The continent, whose countries suffer from famine, refugee and other humanitarian crises, is sometimes forgotten, Cindy McCain, the executive director of the U.N. body, says.
More than 130 advocacy groups – including the WFP, NAACP New York Conference and Release Aging People in Prison – called on the governor to reduce the state's prison population.
Yokohama, Aug. 21 (Jiji Press)--Cindy McCain, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, has called for the world to pay attention to African countries suffering from famine, refugee and other ...
In international human rights and humanitarian law, IDPs are – as civilians – considered ‘internationally protected persons’ when displaced as a result of armed conflict. Attacking them or blocking ...