Latest Humanitarian crises News
What to know from the UN: Ukraine doesn't want the world to forget, and attention turns to Lebanon
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sometimes the issues brought forward at the United Nations signature annual meeting may feel a bit familiar. Climate change is always in focus, especially in the past few years. There are regular disputes about who is on the security council. Pleas to stop wars and address...
Sepsis and malnutrition stalk the new mothers and babies of South Darfur
CAIRO (AP) — Mothers and children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023....
Burkina Faso's ruling junta claims foiling an attempt to destabilize the country
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso’s ruling junta said it thwarted an attempt to destabilize the African country “with the help of foreign powers.” A transitional government has been running the West African country after the military seized power in 2022,...
'Water is flooding everywhere' as torrential rains sweep through West and Central Africa
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city's main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam. Corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies on what used to be main streets. As...
The politics of immigration play differently along the US-Mexico border
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. (AP) — The politics of immigration look different from the back patio of Ardovino’s Desert Crossing restaurant. That's where Robert Ardovino sees a Border Patrol horse trailer rumbling across his property on a sweltering summer morning. It's where a...
Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Relentless violence has devastated Sudan and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around the only capital in Sudan’s western Darfur region not held by paramilitary forces, the United Nations top humanitarian official said Wednesday. Acting humanitarian...
Bernie Sanders preparing resolutions to block $20B in US arms sales to Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing several resolutions that would stop more than $20 billion in U.S. arms sales to Israel, a longshot effort but the most substantive pushback yet from Congress over the devastation in Gaza ahead of the first year anniversary of the Israel-Hamas...
Takeaways from AP's report updating the cult massacre that claimed hundreds of lives in Kenya
In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, the remains of more than 430 victims have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in...
UN is cutting back on Yemen activities after crackdown by Houthi rebels on humanitarian staff
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is cutting back its activities in Yemen in response to a crackdown by Houthi rebels on staff working for the U.N. and other humanitarian, human rights, development and education organizations, the top U.N. aid official said Thursday. Acting...
UN warns some 25 million Sudanese risk famine without more donations
ROME (AP) — The World Food Program needs better access to people at risk of starvation in Sudan and more money from the crisis-weary West to feed more than 25 million people facing acute hunger, the U.N. agency's director said Thursday. “Sudan’s nearly a forgotten crisis right...
