Topic: Crisis Response

“If we have nothing to eat, after a while we will die.” The words of Hasta Abdelkarim, 46, are remarkably strong. A visitor asks her if she is afraid of dying. “Yes. After that, it’s over – there is nothing,” she sentences.

Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food crisis, seven aid agencies said today, with 10 million people – 44 percent of the population – without enough food to eat. The aid agencies warned that malnutrition rates recorded by the UN in some parts of the country were alarming, with one in three children severely malnourished.

Welcoming groups of people into your community isn’t always easy – they need to find a place to live and food to eat and this can put pressure on villagers who already struggle to support themselves. Despite these obvious difficulties, communities all over the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) welcome displaced people and offer them support.

For Matipaka, the last 16 years have been a struggle. For 14 of those years she had to care for her children while her husband, an army battalion commander

Emergency teams from CARE International in Rwanda have mobilized to meet the humanitarian needs of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to seek safety in neighbouring Rwanda.

Humanitarian need growing in South Sudan as rainy season approaches a severe food crisis is growing in South Sudan and as the rainy season approaches the situation has the potential to deteriorate further.

Situation still dire as malnutrition and death rates remain high

She is only forty but her eyes and her wrinkled face bear witness to a life of hardship. A widow and a mother of six, Tchima Ibrahim Iro has no means to support herself and her family, and relies on other people’s handouts

Driving from Niger’s capital Niamey to the town of Konni for five hours through the sand-swept, arid Sahel region, I listened to the audio book The Hunger Games. The novel opens with a scene of bleak poverty in a post-apocalyptic town called District 12. Dirt, grime, threadbare clothing, scarce food.