Israel intensifies airstrikes on Gaza’s Rafah before ground operation
Cairo, Reuters Reuters Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies’ warnings this could cause mass casualties. Medics in the besieged Palestinian enclave reported five Israeli airstrikes on Rafah early on Thursday that hit at least three houses, […]
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…
Eastern Congo residents scramble for food and safety as conflict intensifies
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters An intensifying conflict between Democratic Republic of Congo’s army and the Tutsi-led M23 rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, has disrupted food supplies to the eastern city of Goma, affecting over two million residents and displaced individuals. Clashes have escalated since the start of the year in towns and villages […]
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 […]
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…
Aid group NRC resumes work with female staff in Taliban heartland
United NationsReuters An international aid agency in Afghanistan has resumed operations in the southern province of Kandahar – the birthplace of the Taliban and home to its supreme spiritual leader – after its Afghan female staff were allowed to return to work. The move comes after Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland told Reuters […]
Key aid group says Taliban signals exemption for women in southern heartland
United NationsReuters An international aid agency in Afghanistan hopes to have an interim arrangement within days to allow its Afghan female staff to return to work in the southern province of Kandahar – the birthplace of the Taliban and home to the supreme spiritual leader. Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland spokes to Reuters […]
Number of internally displaced people hits record due to war, climate change
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The number of internally displaced people reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to data published on Thursday. The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said that figure represented a 20 per cent increase […]
“I feel like I am in prison”: Afghan women aid workers lose hope after Taliban ban
ROHULLAH TALAASH and ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as a harsh winter grips the country already in an economic crisis, Afghan women aid workers fear they have little to no money left to survive…
Save the Children, others suspend Afghanistan efforts after Taliban bar on female staff
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Four international aid agencies including Save the Children said on Sunday they were suspending their humanitarian programs in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban-run administration’s order to stop female employees from working. The administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations not to let female staff work until further notice. It […]