Humanitarian Crisis

Sudan’s escalating civil war has displaced over 13 million people, creating the world’s largest displacement crisis with millions facing famine, disease outbreaks and a collapsing healthcare system that threatens regional stability. On a sweltering afternoon in North Darfur, 16-year-old Nahed recounts the day armed men stormed her village, killing her grandfather and uncle while girls […]

In the arid expanses of northern Kenya, prolonged drought has emptied schoolyards, forcing dozens of children to abandon education as families migrate in search of water and pasture. At Hifow Primary School in Garissa County, classrooms that should be filled with pupils remain silent, even as schools reopened nationwide after the holiday break. The Kenya […]

Africa faces the world’s worst climate-driven hunger crisis due to droughts, water scarcity and escalating food insecurity threats. In the parched fields of Ethiopia’s Somali region, farmer Amina Hussein surveys her withered maize stalks, a grim harvest that barely fills a single sack. “We used to feed our families and sell the surplus,” the 45-year-old […]

The World Food Programme warns of global escalating hunger due to funding cuts, projecting 318 million in acute crisis by 2026 amid conflicts. In Africa’s hunger-ravaged heartlands, where conflict and climate shocks have left millions on the edge of survival, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) is raising urgent alarms over escalating food insecurity. […]

Tunisia is confronting what international rights groups call a “pervading injustice,” as President Kais Saied’s government intensifies a sweeping crackdown on dissent, jailing opposition leaders, crippling civil society, and dismantling the democratic gains that once made the North African nation a beacon of hope after the Arab Spring. In a coordinated outcry, Human Rights Watch […]

Algeria has pardoned French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, releasing the 81-year-old author after a year in jail on charges of “undermining national unity,” following a direct appeal from Germany. The Algerian presidency announced the decision on Wednesday, stating that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had accepted a request from his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to pardon Sansal on […]

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is facing mounting international and domestic backlash over allegations of state repression and the killing of protesters, plunging the nation into its most severe political crisis since independence in 1961. The turmoil stems from a disputed October 2025 election, which she won with 98% of the vote amid widespread accusations […]

In a stark alert, the United Nations has warned that humanitarian relief operations in Sudan are teetering on the brink of total collapse, threatening to deepen the already catastrophic Sudan humanitarian crisis. The warning comes amid escalating violence following the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) takeover of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The UN’s […]