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It’s difficult to talk about AIDS in Darfur

14/06/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Health, HIV & AIDS, Sudan by Caritas Communications

By Edwyn Shiell, Act for Peace – Campaigns & Communication Coordinator “It’s difficult to talk about HIV and AIDS in Darfur. You can’t really talk about it openly in the camps”, says Gloria Gwoka Nakoboji, the HIV/AIDS Project Officer for the Sudan Council of Churches – SCC (A Caritas partner) in Nyala, Darfur. Estimates of ...

Church in Ethiopia to host climate justice conference

26/05/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Ethiopia, Food by Caritas Communications

Climate change has a major impact on the availability of food and water. It particularly effects communities in hot zones with limited agricultural land and restricted access to water. Ethiopia is one such country. Landlocked in the Horn of Africa between Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya and Sudan, Ethiopia is plagued by periodic drought. In an ...

Bringing Solar Power to the People of Darfur

26/05/2010 Africa, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Food, Sudan by Caritas Communications

As climate change is heatedly debated by world leaders, communities in Darfur are finding sustainable solutions to water shortages in Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) Camps. The rainy season in South Darfur typically lasts five or six months of the year. For the remainder, the land is dry, arid and desolate. With the length of the ...

Nigerians live in fear after brutal attacks

30/04/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Nigeria, Peacebuilding by Caritas Communications

The killing of hundreds of people around the Nigerian city of Jos has terrorised the local population. Caritas is running peacebuilding programmes and providing aid to those caught in the ongoing conflict, but say more needs to be done to provide security.

Hunger spreading in West Africa’s Sahel

31/03/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Malnutrition, Mauritania by Caritas Communications

Over 800,000 children are at risk as malnutrition increases across Niger, Chad, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania in West Africa. We asked Fr. Isidore Ouédraogo, the Secretary General of Caritas Burkina Faso (OCADES) about the food crisis.

Food crisis in South Sudan

31/03/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, South Sudan by Caritas Communications

East Africa was hit by a massive food crisis in 2009. Drought and an explosion of food prices caused 23 million people to suffer from hunger. Caritas Switzerland is helping 10,000 people in the southern Sudanese region East Equatoria until the next harvest.

Q and A on Congo’s six million killed

31/03/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Emergencies in Congo by Caritas Communications

More than six million people have died as a result of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998. We asked Joseph Donnelly, Caritas Internationalis Permanent Delegate at the UN in New York, if the international community is closing its eyes? JD: A multi-million dollar UN-peace keeping operation has been in Congo for 10 ...

Caritas working to rebuild lives in Congo

31/03/2010 Africa, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Emergencies, Emergencies in Congo by Caritas Communications

Caritas works in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by providing humanitarian relief to victims of the conflict through Caritas Goma. Life as a survivor of sexual violence In ten parishes, Caritas Goma has set up centres where rape victims can get help from psychologists. “The most important part of my work is to give my ...

Expulsions from Congo and Angola cause humanitarian crisis

1/03/2010 Africa, Angola, Conflicts and Disasters, Congo, Emergencies, Emergencies in Congo by Caritas Communications

Some arrive barefoot, others in rags and all of them exhausted and without possessions. Tens of thousands of people are suffering hunger, disease and hardship as Congo and Angola take part in a tit-for-tat immigration quarrel involving mass expulsions.

Food emergency in South Sudan

1/03/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Food, Malnutrition, South Sudan by Caritas Communications

Over 1.5 million people in South Sudan are facing a widespread food emergency caused by droughts and conflict. Caritas is appealing for US$ 3,4 million (EUR 2,3 million) to give vital food aid in Western and Eastern Equatoria states. South Sudan is one of the poorest, most underdeveloped countries in the world with 16 percent ...