Sudan one of ‘worst humanitarian crises’ in decades, charity says
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP PORT SUDAN JUN 20, 2024 – Displaced Sudanese families wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in the city of Omdurman, Sudan, April 6, 2024. […]
UN again delays vote on Gaza humanitarian aid as Biden mulls US vote
By Becky Anderson, Michael Williams, Kevin Liptak and Jennifer Deaton, CNN Updated 3:48 PM EST, Wed December 20, 2023 Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern […]
Scapegoating the refugee
Pervez Hoodbhoy Published November 18, 2023 HERDED like cattle, over 1,700,000 Muslim refugees — more than twice the number of Palestinians evicted in 1948 by Zionist Israel — are presently being expelled […]
Pakistani FM urges focus on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
BY ANADOLU AGENCY NEW YORK DEC 17, 2022 – DAILY SABAH A health worker administers polio drops to a child during a Seven-day polio vaccination campaign in Karachi, Pakistan, Nov. 28, […]
Festering food crisis worries Red Cross; Guterres terms floods ‘unnatural’
Festering food crisis worries Red Cross; Guterres terms floods ‘unnatural’ Dawn Report Published September 14, 2022 ISLAMABAD: International agencies have sounded the alarm over the acute food crisis expected to hit Pakistan […]
Special interview: There is ‘a very strong consensus’ in favor of Yemen truce continuity, says US envoy Tim Lenderking
Previous SPECIAL 1 / 5 US Special Envoy Lenderking arrived in Riyadh on Saturday, to discuss peaceful solutions to the war, and the FSO Safer tanker. (AN photo by Huda Bashatah) […]
GCC holds first meeting with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG February 16, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/4tx58 A Gulf Cooperation Council delegation on Monday met for the first time with representatives from the de facto authorities in […]
Afghanistan: Can aid agencies prop up an entire country?
This week in Geneva, the United Nations is appealing for more money for Afghanistan, in a bid to prevent what aid agencies say is an imminent humanitarian catastrophe. The UN […]
The world in 2022: another year of living dangerously
The climate, pandemic and tensions between states means the year ahead is likely to be as tumultuous as the last 12 months Simon Tisdall Wed 29 Dec 2021 On the […]
Operation Yemen
EDITORIAL Daily Times DECEMBER 27, 2021 Six years and innumerable rounds of strikes and counter-strikes later, Operation Decisive Storm is yet to establish the cherished peace it had set out […]
OIC diplomats arrive as Afghans face humanitarian catastrophe
Extraordinary CFM session on Sunday to mull over one-point agenda about Afghanistan Kamran Yousaf December 17, 2021 Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi received Secretary General of the OIC Hissein […]
Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is preventable if we have the will
Nearly 22.8 million Afghans face acute food insecurity https://cdn.vuukle.com/widgets/powerbar.html?version=2.10.13 People sit with their belongings in the Pakistan side of the border after the authorities of Pakistan and Afghanistan close the […]
Saudi Arabia asks Lebanese ambassador to leave over Yemen comments
BY ANADOLU AGENCY BEIRUT MID-EAST OCT 29, 2021 11:59 PM GMT+3Saudi Crown Prince, M. bin Salman arrives at the opening session of the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 26, […]
Red Cross warns aid groups not enough to stave off Afghan humanitarian crisis
The International Committee of the Red Cross has increased its efforts in Afghanistan while other organisations were also stepping up, ICRC’s Director General Robert Mardini said. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/jj9ky […]
A Helping Hand in Times of Crisis – Interview with Dr. Aziz Hafiz, Chairman Humanity First UK
16th September 2020 Humanity First was established in 1995, and is a global, NGO which provides humanotarian services around the world, such as providing disaster relief and and aid wherever […]
Ten million face acute food shortages in Yemen — UN
By AFP – Jul 11,2020 – JORDAN TIMES Pro-government fighters give food to Yemeni children on January 26, 2017 (AFP photo) GENEVA — Nearly 10 million people are facing acute […]
International donors pledge $7.7B to tackle Syria’s humanitarian crisis
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL POLITICS JUL 01, 2020 11:51 AM GMT+3 European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell addresses a meeting on aid for Syria, in videoconference format at the […]
Around 20 million Yemenis food insecure due to ongoing conflict: UN
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP DUBA “As many as 20 million Yemenis are food insecure in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a joint statement by the UN’s Food and […]
No more excuses – the Saudi-led war in Yemen must end now
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk The Independent Voices Finally, the Senate is flexing its atrophied muscles by voting to advance a resolution to end military support for the Saudi-led […]
No winners in Yemen war
Nov 25,2018 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL There is now a glimmer of hope of bringing the two warring sides in Yemen to the negotiating table with a view to ending the […]