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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 ...

Why does West Africa face another food crisis?

19/02/2010 Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Burkina, Chad, Climate Change, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Sahel, Food, Mali, Malnutrition, Niger, Senegal by Caritas Communications

Food emergencies are not inevitable in the Sahel according to Caritas. The region and the international community need to show greater political will to fight the problems.

Hunger the real homework

2/02/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Development, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

Widespread hunger in rural Zimbabwe means that Kembo Ndlovu, head of Lupaka primary school, doesn’t just have to worry about nourishing his pupils’ minds, but also their bodies. Children who don’t get enough food at home, won’t have the energy to go to school and if they do, nagging hunger pangs will make it harder ...

Children abandoned in Zimbabwe’s economic crisis

2/02/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

While Elvis Presley was famous for his fried peanut butter sandwiches and his voracious appetite, Elvis Ncube in Zimbabwe is lucky if he gets a daily meal of porridge and beans. Elvis’ mother left for Botswana for a short period to find work in 2005, but she never returned. Life in Madabe village, southern Zimbabwe, ...

Zimbabwe: “The food is finished”

2/02/2010 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

In the gentle warmth of a mid-winter African sun, Moffat Mpofu seeks shade beside his small thatched hut. Beside him his wife Sarah stretches out on a thin grass mat, their youngest daughter resting quietly across her knees. But the peaceful scene hides a distressing story. Mr Mpofu, 49, tested positive for HIV in December ...

Working Together to Save Lives in Darfur

22/12/2009 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Darfur and South Sudan, Food, Malnutrition, Sudan by Caritas Communications

Christian Churches from all over the world are working together to save the lives of people affected by conflict in Darfur. A joint programme involving ACT (Action by Churches Together), a global alliance of churches and related agencies working in the field of humanitarian relief, and Caritas Internationalis has been providing essential life-saving services such ...

Zimbabwe’s hunger

2/09/2009 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

Children in Zimbabwe are fainting at school from hunger – well at least in the schools where there are teachers. The cost of travelling to their job and buying lunch is often too much for their small salaries.

Zimbabwe: No country for old men

2/09/2009 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Peacebuilding, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

Until recently, wheelbarrows in Zimbabwe were used to ferry about huge amounts of cash to buy basic food stuffs. The economy was crumbling and hyperinflation meant that even though people were suddenly millionaires, all they could afford was a loaf of bread. Then, as a cholera epidemic swept the country they were used to carry ...

Changing women’s lives in Chad

3/11/2008 Africa, Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Chad, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Female face of migration, Food, Malnutrition, Migration by Caritas Communications

By Antoine Adoum Goulgué, SECADEV for Caritas The Al-Nadjah centre is a handsome building in the Chadian town of Adré, about 5 km from the border with Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. With finanancial and technical support from Caritas, the centre provides training for local women, a nursery school, and a playground. The 235 beneficiaries in ...

Fighting Kala-azar: Caritas Somalia Health Centre changes lives in Baidoa

3/09/2008 Africa, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Food, Malnutrition, Middle East & North Africa, Somalia by Caritas Communications

by David Omwoyo Seated outside the Caritas health centre in Baidoa, Mama Habibo Salad Habibo waits for help. After walking more than 18 km from her home with her two young children, she is glad that her sick child will finally get treatment. Hawo Salad, her two-year-old daughter looks emaciated and sleepy. Yet her stomach ...