Humanitarian response
Isolated Afghanistan may face struggle for aid after earthquake
Analysis: humanitarian appeals for Taliban-ruled country have had poor responses and there are sanctions complications
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
22, Jun, 2022 @4:45 PM
‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving
Aguié’s clinic is full of malnourished children, with more dying in villages, as the global food crisis worsens years of drought
Fred Harter in Aguié
20, Jun, 2022 @6:45 AM
Closing Syria aid route would be ‘catastrophe’, UN warned
Russia expected to use security council veto to block resolution to keep open Bab al-Hawa border crossing into Idlib from Turkey
Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor
17, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM
David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis
Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungry
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
08, Jun, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘You hear bullets, you run’: Congolese refugees stream over Uganda’s border
As thousands flee the latest fighting in DRC to join 1.5m already in Uganda, the UN’s food aid agency is stretched as never before
Patience Akumu
27, May, 2022 @6:15 AM
‘It’s a never-ending nightmare’: crew of refugee rescue ship facing jail
Thousands of lives were saved by activists who have now been
put on trial in Sicily on trafficking charges
put on trial in Sicily on trafficking charges
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Angela Giuffrida in Rome
22, May, 2022 @6:00 AM
G7 to discuss action to break Russian blockade of Ukraine grain exports
Meetings in Germany will look at alternative routes to ports as ‘44 million people march towards starvation’
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
12, May, 2022 @1:39 PM
Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups
Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses Ethiopian paramilitaries of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Kaamil Ahmed
06, Apr, 2022 @5:15 AM
Robert Ashe obituary
Other lives: Humanitarian aid worker who helped people flee from the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia
John Ashe
03, Apr, 2022 @5:06 PM
First food aid for 100 days enters Tigray under ‘humanitarian truce’
Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food
Lizzy Davies
01, Apr, 2022 @2:45 PM
UN donor conference falls billions short of $4.4bn target to help Afghanistan
Conference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian crisis
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
31, Mar, 2022 @7:09 PM
‘Trying to survive’: millions in Tigray face hunger as they wait in vain for aid
With aid unable to reach the war-torn Ethiopian region for months, hundreds of thousands are in ‘famine-like conditions’
Reporter in Addis Ababa
23, Mar, 2022 @7:15 AM
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