World Food Program’s troubles in Sudan hurt hunger relief, alienated donors – internal report
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organisation’s ability to alleviate hunger in the war-torn country and damaging its reputation with donors, according to a recent internal report seen by Reuters. The UN’s main food-aid distributor, the WFP is struggling to feed […]
The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
Irbil, Iraq AP The Iraqi Government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Earlier this year, Baghdad ordered the camps to be closed by 30th July […]
Iraq: Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes
ABBY SEWELL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, of Associated Press, report on the ongoing impact the Islamic State’s assault a decade ago is having on Yazidi communities…