July 31

• Kenya: Urban Refugees Regain Access to Aid [press release]

  Danish Refugee Council resumes and expands activities in Nairobi in support of urban refugees. The urban refugee programmes have been on hold until now as the Kenyan Government's... Read more »

• Uganda: Thousands Flee DRC Amidst Fresh Fighting in Eastern DRC [press release]

  Thousands flee DRC into Uganda amidst fresh fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Read more »

• Cameroon: Assistance to Nigerian Refugees in Minawao [press release]

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• Central African Republic: Assistance to Support and Protect War Affected Vulnerable Communities [press release]

  Preliminary Appeal Read more »

July 30

• Africa: Scientists Help Farmers Battle Pests

  Sithandile Ncube, a member of a farmers' cooperative in southern Zimbabwe, combs through her plot of rape, turning over each leaf and checking it for the yellowing or shrivelling... Read more »

• Africa: Aids-Related Deaths Fall 38 Percent in East and Southern Africa - UN

  A ten-fold increase in access to life-prolonging drugs contributed to a 38 percent drop in the number of people dying from AIDS-related causes in eastern and southern Africa... Read more »

July 29

• Malawi: Policy Errors Menace Farm Success - UN Expert

  Misguided policies threaten to make Malawi's much-lauded surge in maize production a fleeting rather than a lasting phenomenon, a top U.N. expert has warned. Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Aid Workers On Standby As Families Flee DRC [press release]

  TENS of thousands of villagers are fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports children's charity Plan International. Read more »

• Kenya: HIV Spread 'By Wife Swapping' - Report

  HIV is being spread by "wife swapping" and infidelity according to a report in Kenya, where most new infections occur among heterosexual couples in stable relationships. Read more »

July 25

• Somalia: Starting All Over

  Shelter, protection, access to water and food - needs are basic for the thousands of Somalis seeking refuge in Dollow, a remote area of Somalia. Read more »

• Somalia: On the Edge of Somalia [press release]

  Millions of men, women and children have fled their homes in Somalia since civil war broke out in 1991. After more than two decades of continuous war, recurrent droughts and... Read more »

• Cameroon: Drought Worsens Child Malnutrition

  Prolonged drought in northern Cameroon, an aspect of the changing climate that is affecting the whole Sahel region, has reduced food output, pushed up prices and increased the... Read more »

• South Sudan: UN Seeks U.S.$20 Million to Airlift Food to Displaced

  Aid agencies have begun airlifting food by helicopter to tens of thousands of people displaced by escalating violence in the east of South Sudan, where many have spent weeks hiding... Read more »

• Tanzania: Gender Based Violence Rising in Tanzania

  Sakina Masoud bears physical and emotional scars in the wake of a harrowing knife attack she suffered a month ago when her husband suspected her of having sex out of wedlock. Read more »

July 24

• Kenya: Govt Sees More Cash Handouts Ending Hunger for 3 Million

  The Kenyan government hopes to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by giving cash handouts to up to 3.3 million of its poorest people, hit by drought and unemployment, over the next... Read more »

• Burkina Faso: Cash and Enriched Baby Cereal to Help Face the Rainy Season

  To assist the most vulnerable sections of the population in a country where food and nutritional insecurity prevail, Terre des hommes (Tdh) has launched an operation to distribute... Read more »

July 23

• Africa: Humanitarian Standards to Be Unified, Simplified

  Standing in a room full of rain-soaked volunteers just back from delivering food to people hit by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008, Erik Johnson remembers trying to train them in... Read more »

• Africa: Would Kate and the Royal Baby Have Survived in Africa? [opinion]

  Having very recently become a parent, I finally have something in common with William and Kate apart from my British nationality. It was not an "easy" birth, if there is such a... Read more »

• Mozambique: Mozambique - Programme Officer Wash and Gender

  Programme Officer WASH and Gender Read more »

• Cote d'Ivoire: No More Nightmares [analysis]

  Despite relative peace in Côte d'Ivoire the underlying ethnic and political tensions remain largely unaddressed. The Community Safety programme of the Danish Deming Group... Read more »

July 22

• Guinea: Resurfacing Humanitarian Crisis in Guinea [press release]

  In only three days, approximately 30,000 people have been displaced, dozens of civilians have been killed and several constructions destructed after inter-ethnics violence took... Read more »

• West Africa: Volta River Basin Needs New Water Strategy - Study

  New water management strategies will be needed to ensure sufficient water supplies in West Africa's Volta River Basin, a region likely to be hard hit by climate change, researchers... Read more »

• Africa: Thirty Million Girls At Risk of FGM Despite Decline in Support - UN

  Thirty million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the next decade, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF warned on Monday as it launched the first comprehensive... Read more »

• Africa: How Prevalent Is FGM?

  More than 125 million girls and women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM) in 29 countries across Africa and the Middle East, according to a major UNICEF... Read more »

• Chad: Country Faces Severe Hunger Crisis With Girls Under Age Five Particularly At Risk [press release]

  Malnutrition rates in southern Chad are reaching critical levels, according to International Medical Corps' assessments in the region. In Aboudeia health district nearly ten... Read more »