Aid workers on frontline of drought in East Africa respond to FCDO funding announcement
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in the UK has today announced £36 million in UK humanitarian funding to help people in Ukraine, East Africa and Syria. Countries in East Africa
Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.”
In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said:
Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across East Africa
The climate crisis is fuelling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger. Find out more about the
Cyclone Freddy: record-breaking destruction
What’s being investigated by some as a record breaking weather event, has to others caused horror and devastation. #Cyclone Freddy has affected over 1.5 million people in Mozambique, Malawi, and
Humanitarian charity helps communities prepare for the worst as storm Freddy heads for Mozambique.
Humanitarian organisation ActionAid is concerned about the intensity of tropical cyclone Freddy and the crippling impact on vulnerable communities in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Reports of sexual violence in Eastern DRC surge by almost 700% in March as armed conflict intensifies – ActionAid
Data collected by ActionAid shows that escalating attacks by armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have sparked an explosion of sexual violence against women and girls in the
