Humanitarian response
- Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Humanitarian response, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Urgent aid appeal launched as satellite images show a third of Pakistan underwater
Humanitarian workers expect conditions to worsen as monsoon rains continue and say millions face a terrible wi…
- Access to water, Aid, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Health, Humanitarian response, Internally displaced people, Pakistan, Society, South and Central Asia, World Health Organization, World news
Health officials warn of major outbreaks of disease after severe floods in Pakistan
Diarrhoea and malaria cases spread, with risk of dysentery and cholera, as millions of displaced people forced…
- Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Global development, Humanitarian response, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Just a pile of mud’: Pakistani floods force family to rebuild home again
As well as losing livestock and crops, villagers must rebuild homes for a second time after floods destroyed t…
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Afghanistan earthquake survivors appeal for assistance – video
Rugged terrain is hampering aid efforts after a deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, making it difficult for NGOs…
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Isolated Afghanistan may face struggle for aid after earthquake
Analysis: humanitarian appeals for Taliban-ruled country have had poor responses and there are sanctions compl…
- Afghanistan, Aid, David Lammy, Foreign policy, Humanitarian response, Labour, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis
Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungryThe shadow fo…
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Robert Ashe obituary
My twin brother, Robert Ashe, who has died aged 69 of pancreatic cancer just five weeks after diagnosis, spent…
- Afghanistan, Aid, China, Foreign policy, Germany, Global development, Humanitarian response, Liz Truss, Politics, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South and Central Asia, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, World news
UN donor conference falls billions short of $4.4bn target to help Afghanistan
Conference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Charities, Europe, Humanitarian response, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Ukraine
The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous | Nelufar Hedayat
Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are still pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this ongoing h…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Ethiopia, Global development, Humanitarian response, Middle East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, South Sudan, World news, Yemen
‘Take from the hungry to feed the starving’: UN faces awful dilemma
Agencies forced to cut back aid in Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Ethiopia despite growing need as funds …
- Afghanistan, Aid, Child labour, Children, Global development, Human rights, Humanitarian response, Middle East and North Africa, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
Scared, hungry and cold: child workers in Kabul – picture essay
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s…
- Aid, Humanitarian response, Internally displaced people, Myanmar, Myanmar coup, South and Central Asia, World news
‘I can’t go home’: families hide in Myanmar’s forests as fighting rages
As the military targets civilians and blocks aid, those who have left home to avoid violence risk death to fin…
- Afghanistan, Famine, Humanitarian response, Refugees, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
Famine: new battleground for displaced Afghans – a photo essay
Nearly 700,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2021, joining 2.…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Famine, Global development, Humanitarian response, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, US foreign policy, US news, World news
US eases restrictions on sending aid to famine-hit Afghanistan
Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restric…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Humanitarian response, Hunger, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
UK charities launch appeal to help eight million Afghans at risk of starvation
There is a ‘very small window of opportunity’ to intervene, say aid workers, as poverty, conflict, drought and…