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With 14 million people needing aid, a 55% increase since 2019, and 6,000 civilian casualties this year, Afghans are caught in the middle of one of the deadliest conflicts for civilians. As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan skyrocket amid unrelenting violence and the spread of COVID-19, the 2020 Afghanistan Conference is a critical opportunity for the international community to increase funding and bring about an inclusive peace process. With 14 million people in need of aid, a 55% increase since 2019, and 6,000 civilian casualties in the first three quarters of 2020 alone, Afghans are caught in the middle of one of the…

Acute child malnutrition rates have reached record levels in parts of the country, up 10% just this year. Nearly 325,000 under-fives suffer from severe acute malnutrition and are fighting to survive. “As Yemen slowly inches towards what the UN Secretary-General has described as potentially ‘the worst famine in decades,’ the risk to children’s lives is higher than ever. “The warning signs have been clear for far too long. “More than 12 million children need humanitarian assistance. “Acute child malnutrition rates have reached record levels in some parts of the country, marking a 10 per cent increase just this year. “Nearly…

A businessman and NPP Ashanti Regional news vendors president, Bismark Ayensu has thrown a mouth-watering challenge to Ghanaians that His Excellency, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has out perform all presidents in the history of Ghana. His assessment was linked to comments made by former president, John Dramani Mahama that he has performed better than Nana Addo-led government. According to the businessman, Nana Addo’s track record is incomparable to any government in the history of the fourth Republic of the seventh parliament of Ghana. The businessman speaking in a Twi language with Vigo and statistics in a video throwing a…

Wednesday marks the end of the 11th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), nearly six months after the first cases were reported in Equateur Province. The outbreak took place in communities scattered across dense rain forests as well as crowded urban areas, creating logistical challenges. These were surmounted due to the leadership of the government and local communities, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners. WHO congratulates responders and all those who tirelessly tracked cases, provided treatment, engaged communities and vaccinated more than 40 000 people at high risk and thanks a wide range…

The Humanitarian Country Team in Honduras today launched a Flash Appeal to respond to the needs of 450,000 of the most vulnerable people in provinces affected by Tropical Storm Eta. Response efforts continue as the heavy rains brought by Eta triggered floods countrywide, causing catastrophic damage across nearly all of Honduras’s 18 departments and generating significant humanitarian needs. The storm has affected more than 2 million people, severely impacting the northern Atlantic departments of Atlántida, Cortés, Santa Bárbara and Yoro, including the Sula Valley, home to 30 per cent of the country’s population. As a new Tropical Storm, Iota, was about to…

Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Saudi Arabia on 21 November, 11 aid organizations are calling for early action to prevent soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition resulting from the pandemic-related global economic recession. We are seeing spiraling levels of poverty and hunger among refugees and conflict-affected people. Hundreds of thousands still risk being kicked out of their homes, and millions are skipping meals and dropping out of school. The economic impacts of Covid-19 are having a devastating effect on the world’s most vulnerable. G20 leaders have the opportunity and means to address this growing crisis. They must take…

Tony Georgiou sighed as he stood in front of a field full of parked taxi cabs, admitting he has lost count of how many are there. Many London taxi drivers rent their instantly-recognisable black cabs from fleet companies such as GB Taxi Services, where Georgiou is one of the owners. But with London’s streets emptied by the coronavirus lockdown, many drivers are unable to keep paying for their vehicles and are handing them back in droves. “There’s probably around 150 to 200 vehicles that are here, which we’ve had to take off the road,” said Georgiou, whose company has parked…

South Australia’s six-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown will be cut short, officials said Friday, blaming a pizza chef who misled contact tracers about how he contracted the virus. Premier Steven Marshall indicated a tough lockdown for the state’s almost two million people would end late on Saturday, at least two days earlier than planned. Marshall said a man who claimed he was a customer at a pizza parlour hotspot — leading authorities to believe the strain was virulent enough to be transmitted via a takeaway box — in fact worked there. “One of the close contacts linked to the Woodville pizza bar…

Mexico said Thursday its coronavirus death toll had risen above 100,000, becoming the world’s fourth country to pass the grim milestone. “Today in Mexico we have 100,000 people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19,” deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference. The health ministry announced 576 more deaths in its daily update, taking the total to 100,104, behind only the United States, Brazil and India. The overall number of infections registered now stands at 1,019,543 in the nation of more than 128 million, up 4,472 from the previous day. While the number of daily infections has…

The election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 looked to some like a death blow for the Brazilian left after the spectacular fall of its 13-year rule. But the heart monitor may have just emitted a blip in local elections. Rewind a decade or so, and Brazil’s left wing looked invincible: president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the charismatic co-founder of the Workers’ Party (PT), was presiding over a booming economy, slashing poverty in one of the world’s most unequal countries, and was called “the most popular politician on Earth” by no less than Barack Obama. But fast forward…