Monday Movement update #20
Here’s your weekly update on what different members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement* are doing. Yemen: More than three weeks of intense armed confrontations in northern Yemen...
View ArticleIs it time to give up food aid in the Horn of Africa?
This year, drought, rising food and fuel prices, and conflict are again driving at least 20 million people into hunger in east Africa. But launching an emergency appeal for food aid may not be the...
View ArticleFive ways to help the Horn of Africa
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has published a great article about the different factors that have contributed to the severe hunger in east Africa that we launched...
View ArticleDrought in east Africa: six questions and answers
1. What is famine? The UN declared on 20 July that parts of south central Somalia are suffering from famine. When the UN makes this declaration, it means there are very extreme problems that are...
View ArticleMobile technology could be vital in east Africa’s fight against hunger
Twenty years ago fax machines were almost everywhere, but today most people would be hard-pressed to recite their company’s fax number. Soon they’ll probably go the way of the telegraph, becoming dusty...
View ArticleWorldwide disaster response round-up
Worldwide disaster response round-up We recently launched our Pakistan Floods Appeal. Here’s a brief round-up of some of the ways the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is helping people...
View ArticleDispatches from Disaster Zones: telling the story of hunger
Every night 925 million people go to bed hungry. And sometimes it gets so bad the media throws a spotlight on the crisis, such as the current situation in east Africa. Seeing as aid agencies have been...
View ArticleRed Cross report: dependence on food aid in east Africa has to stop
A report on the east Africa food crisis, recently published by the Red Cross, looks at the roots of the issue and proposes ways to avert future drought crises. It says: “The answer lies not in...
View ArticleEast Africa: Kenya Red Cross helps despite Dadaab’s dangers
Dadaab – the world’s oldest and largest refugee camp complex – is facing ever more serious and complex problems. But, while many organisations have pulled out due to the deteriorating security...
View ArticleHunger in Africa: why it’s happening again
“Aid money only goes into the pockets of rich leaders, despots and tyrants, so why bother donating?” Corruption is an issue in some of the countries where the Red Cross works, so it is understandable...
View ArticleThirteen pictures from a land without rain
Most of Halima’s children are too young to remember how things used to be. She remembers though. And each year she sees the determined march of the desert into her once rich pastoral lands, it brings a...
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