About 600 families have been displaced by heavy rains and flooding in one week across Yemen, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) found that at least 596 [ More … ]
The impact of previous IMF-required economic reforms has been hardest on the poor in a country where one in three lives below the poverty line The Egyptian government is seeking an aid package from the [ More … ]
House Democrats sharply rebuked Egypt over its human rights record last Thursday, putting Cairo on a path to lose $300 million in military assistance this year. As part of a spending package for the rest [ More … ]
This weekend, Egypt’s court sentenced 75 people to death. The defendants are among more than 700 people accused of or already convicted of playing roles in a 2013 protest against the ouster of then-President Mohamed Morsi. [ More … ]
U.S Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to visit Egypt and Israel on Tuesday; but, his trip was postponed until next month. In fact, Pence’s visit follows the footsteps of countless American officials who have [ More … ]
UN says food and non-food aid delivered to 7,200 needy people, days after further aid deliveries in Eastern Ghouta A region besieged by government forces east of Syria’s capital on Sunday received UN aid for [ More … ]
Amid what the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs has described as a “frenetic Israeli campaign” against Palestinian authorities’ payment of allowances to Palestinian prisoners in Israel and their families, the committee published a list on [ More … ]
Turkey has prepared an aid cargo to ship to Yemen, where thousands of civilians lost their lives due to cholera, and thousands wait for medicine for treatment. Nearly 3 million people who were displaced due [ More … ]
Turkish Economy minister says Turkey will continue to help Qatar amid row between Gulf states Turkey will continue to help Qatar and plans to send the Gulf country another aid ship carrying 11 tons of [ More … ]
The Türkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) sent 1,500 packages of food aid Wednesday for the needy in Yemen’s Taiz province The Yemeni Association for Social Improvement and Prosperity will distribute the food aid, which was sent [ More … ]
The UN humanitarian chief says thousands of Syrians in at least 10 communities are facing suffering as the regime denies aid to the needy and pushes people in besieged cities. The United Nations humanitarian chief [ More … ]
The UN and top government officials from Switzerland and Sweden co-hosted the pledging conference with the aim of bridging a funding gap in the 2017 humanitarian appeal of $2.1 billion. Nearly $1.1 billion was raised [ More … ]
Millions of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon’s borders have caused huge pressure to public services and infrastructure, according to the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Lebanon has reached “breaking point” Prime Minister Saad Hariri warned [ More … ]
Somalia’s new president appealed to the international community Thursday for more aid to avert a famine threatening his country. Somalia’s new president appealed to the international community Thursday for more aid to avert a famine [ More … ]
Almost 60 percent of northern town captured from Daesh suffered heavy destruction, says head of Turkey’s Red Crescent Most parts of a northern Syrian town captured from Daesh have suffered widespread destruction and the Turkish [ More … ]
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