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

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: 

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

Severe drought, chronic water shortages and now rising food and energy prices due to the war on Ukraine, are pushing families to the brink of survival.

Responding to U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths’ warning that famine is “at the door” in parts of Somalia, Taiwo Ajose, Interim Country Director for ActionAid in Somaliland, says: 

Heavy rains and Tropical Cyclone Batsirai are threatening communities in Southern Africa left reeling after Tropical Storm Ana destroyed their homes, schools and farmland.

ActionAid’s emergency teams

ActionAid responds to the IMF debt relief announcement of immediate debt relief for 25 countries.

In response to the news that more than 60 migrants are feared dead at sea off Cape Verde coast, Peter Kamalingin, Regional Director for Africa at ActionAid International, said: “We are devastated to

Number of Ugandans fully vaccinated equivalent to less than 5% of Wembley stadium capacity.

head of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned that G7 promises to vaccinate the world by 2022 will be impossible to fulfil, if governments continue blocking proposals to waive