In a dramatic development, Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum has challenged the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) to provide accurate information on the improving security situation in Borno state and the Lake Chad region or face the state’s withdrawal from future engagements. Zulum voiced his concerns during the Lake Chad […]
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Humanitarian partners estimate that at least 679,000 civilians would be in need of assistance due to the fighting going on in eastern DR Congo, and 315,000 of this number have been targeted by the combatants.According to state and humanitarian actors cited by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), about 340,000 […]
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Vulnerable communities are at risk of being challenged with the most severe impacts of climate change as extreme heat waves are becoming deadlier with the increment of temperature rise, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and the International Federation for the Red Cross (IFRC) have revealed. According to an analysis published […]
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 13 civilians died in the fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo national army, FARDC, and rebels of the March 23 (M23) movement in the last one week. The victims included four children, according to UNOCHA during its weekly […]
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has disclosed that seven humanitarian workers were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2021. Three were killed in North Kivu, two in Ituri, one in South Kivu, and one in Tanganyika province, the UN agency revealed. It also disclosed that 292 cases […]
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There has been a steep rise in landmine explosions in the northwest of the Central African Republic in the past year. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), between Jan. and Nov. 2021, there were 40 cases of landmine explosions resulting in the deaths of 23 civilians including three children, […]
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The maxim that “there is no medicine like hope and no tonic so powerful as an expectation for something better tomorrow,” aptly depicts the stories of many Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Northeast Nigeria. Many IDPs, who have lost their most valuable assets in the decade-old Boko Haram insurgency, are still rebuilding their lives and […]
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