Zimbabwe goes hungry as crops wither amid El Nino drought
Buhera, Zimbabwe Reuters Residents of the Zimbabwean village of Buhera stood in groups at a primary school waiting to be called by name to receive life-saving handouts of grain, peas and cooking oil. “We are grateful, but the food will only be enough for one month,” said Mushaikwa, 71, who lives with her elderly husband, […]
WFP plans food relief for 270,000 Zimbabweans, poor harvest expected
Harare, ZimbabweReuters The World Food Programme is planning to feed 270,000 hungry Zimbabweans over the next three months, an official said as the country braces for a poor harvest due to an El Nino-induced drought. The southern African country has been struggling to feed itself since 2000, when former leader Robert Mugabe led the seizure […]
UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad
Adre, ChadReuters Food aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said on Wednesday. “By December, there will be no assistance,” Pierre Honnorat, Chad country director for the UN agency, told Reuters. “We are calling […]
Many culprits stole food aid in north Ethiopia, investigation finds
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Regional and Federal Government officials as well as Eritrean soldiers were involved in the theft of food aid in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the head of an investigation by the Tigrayan authorities said on Thursday. The UN World Food Programme and the US Agency for International Development paused food distribution last month in […]
UN agency joins US in suspending food aid to Ethiopia after diversions
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters The United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday it was temporarily halting its food aid assistance in Ethiopia due to the widespread theft of donations, a day after the United States announced it was doing the same. More than 20 million people need food aid in Africa’s second most-populous nation, largely […]
USAID pauses food assistance to Tigray region of Ethiopia
Washington DC, USReuters The United States Agency for International Development announced on Wednesday the temporary suspension of its food assistance to the Tigray region of Ethiopia. While describing the move as a “difficult decision”, USAID Administrator Samantha Power said the agency recently discovered that food aid intended for people of the region, who are suffering […]
In Uganda, Anglican Church appeals for food donations to feed thousands starving in Karamoja
Kampala, Uganda The Anglican Church of Uganda is mobilising food items and cash for thousands of people facing starvation in north-eastern Uganda. All the nine districts of the Karamoja sub-region – located in the country’s north-east between Kenya and South Sudan – are facing serious hunger with almost half a million people going hungry, according to […]
Nearly half the people in Ethiopia’s Tigray in ‘severe’ need of food aid – WFP
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The nearly two-year conflict in Ethiopia has left almost half the population of Tigray region in “severe” need of food, as aid groups struggle to reach the population because of insufficient fuel supplies, according to the World Food Programme. Even though the delivery of aid resumed after the federal government declared a unilateral […]
USAID pledges Kenya $US255 million to fight drought, appeals to rich countries to help
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The US development agency USAID on Friday said it would give Kenya $US255 million in emergency assistance to tackle severe drought. Some 4.1 million people in the East African nation are facing acute food shortages, the government says, while the number of cases of child malnutrition has surged by half in parts of […]
Sight-Seeing: Is money always better? Reflecting Jesus’ heart in foreign aid
GWYN WILLIAMS, UK operations director for Feed the Hungry, says taking the time to listen – as Jesus did – is a crucial part of helping others…