ForAfrika Gearing Up To Help To Alleviate A Growing Humanitarian Crisis As People Flee To South Sudan From Conflict-ridden Sudan

ForAfrika is gearing up to provide humanitarian assistance to thousands of people fleeing to South Sudan, where it has its largest office, from the conflict that erupted in Sudan almost two weeks ago. We join the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in its concern that a large, unplanned number of new returns will […]

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Mauritania’s Humanitarian Crisis Requires An Innovative Approach

Innovation is key when you live in a country where the advancement of desert sands is beginning to encroach on homes and livelihoods, and drought is causing what the United Nations has referred to as “a horrendous food crisis”. Together with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger, Mauritania is a nation situated in the Sahel […]

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Long-Haul SADC Action Needed To Counter Mozambican Insurgency And Humanitarian Crisis

Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal decisively with the insurgency that has plagued the area since October 2017. The insurgents, known both as Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) and the Islamic State Central Africa Province, have displaced more than 745 000 people. “In northern […]

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