Updated: Haiti’s neighbours prepare for “drastic escalation” in violence after jailbreak
Updated 10:55am (AEDT) Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s neighbours on Monday began shoring up their defences and recalling embassy staff as a gang conflict in the Caribbean nation escalated and thousands fled fresh fighting. On Sunday, Haiti’s de facto government issued a 72-hour state of emergency and imposed nightly curfews after armed men busted thousands from […]
Humanitarian crises will worsen in 2024 – International Rescue Committee
Mexico City, CityReuters Climate change, worsening armed conflicts, growing debt-loads and shrinking international support will accelerate humanitarian crises worldwide in 2024, the International Rescue Committee said in a report on Thursday. In its 2024 Emergency Watchlist, the New York-based IRC pointed to 20 nations largely in Africa at the greatest risk of a worsening humanitarian […]
Border crossing with Afghanistan swamped by Afghans after Pakistani expulsion order
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Thousands of people swamped Pakistan’s main north-western border crossing seeking to cross into Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after the government’s deadline expired for undocumented foreigners to leave or face expulsion. Pakistani authorities began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them Afghans, hours before Wednesday’s deadline. More than a million Afghans could […]
Migrants struggle to meet basic needs after arriving in Italy, survey shows
Rome, ItalyReuters Migrants arriving in Italy face extreme challenges to meet their basic needs after leaving reception centres, a survey showed on Thursday, with almost a third of them struggling to feed themselves. The survey, issued by aid group International Rescue Committee, is based on interviews with 598 people who landed on Italy’s shores in […]
Finding work: Migrant Venezuelan women in Colombia chase business dreams
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how migrant women from Venezuela struggling to escape poverty and discrimination in the jobs market in Colombia are turning to their own small businesses…
Building resilience: As world’s poor face “compounding crises”, what could curb risks?
LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that while climate change impacts threaten to overwhelm humanitarian aid systems, changes in how money is moved could help…
Mexico’s Haitian asylum seekers lack access to basic resources, says IRC
Mexico CityReuters More than nine in 10 Haitians seeking asylum in Mexico lack the resources to cover basic necessities such as food, shelter and medical care, the International Rescue Committee aid group said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of Haitians have been displaced in recent months as heavily armed gangs have expanded their control over […]
Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya
Dadaab, Kenya Reuters When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya. Ismael, 26, said she had hoped Dadaab would be free of the hunger and […]
Some UN Afghan aid delivered by men only, donors voice alarm
United NationsReuters Under pressure from Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, the United Nations is delivering some food aid using men only, prompting warnings from donors and humanitarian groups that it could be seen as giving in to an internationally condemned ban on most female aid workers. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths acknowledged to reporters this week that […]
Humanitarian crises could worsen in Haiti, Venezuela, says aid group
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The humanitarian crises in Haiti and Venezuela that have subjected millions to hunger, violence and disease could worsen this year without more aid, the International Rescue Committee said on Tuesday. An estimated 4.7 million Haitians and 12.3 million Venezuelans face food insecurity. Karina Joseph, 19, comforts her two-year-old child Holanda Sineus […]