Tag: crisis
Housing crisis in Nigeria
Nigeria is gripped by a crisis that leaving Africa’s most populous country ill-equipped to properly house its inhabitants, said a United Nations rapporteur who...
UN warns of humanitarian catastrophe in DR Congo
Humanitarian needs caused by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo doubled over the last year and a cash shortage is the...
Eastern DR Congo facing humanitarian disaster
An upsurge of violence in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is set to cause a "humanitarian disaster of extraordinary proportions", UN refugee...
Humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC worsening
A humanitarian disaster in eastern Congo is worsening and aid agencies are pulling back due to growing insecurity and slashed budgets, the...
UN seeks further $900 million for Somalia crisis response
The United Nations is seeking a further $900 million this year for Somalia, where more than six million people need humanitarian assistance...
Angola faces health crisis as oil price falls leads to cutbacks
When a plunge in oil prices prompted Angola's government to slash public spending last year, street trader Antonio Simao Baptista had no...
SAAF “crisis” caused by underfunding
With the country's military watchers united in their view the SA Air Force (SAAF) is fast approaching crisis point in terms of...
Too early to judge AU crisis capacity response – analysts
Analysts have welcomed an African Union (AU) resolution to create a rapid response force that will help Africa militarily respond swiftly to...
Reviewing the Sahel humanitarian crisis
A year after the international community launched a massive humanitarian response to the food and nutritional crisis affecting millions across the Sahel...
Sudan to expand food exports to help overcome crisis
Cash-strapped Sudan plans to expand food exports to help compensate for the loss of oil revenues, a government minister told state media.
The...
Euro zone treads obstacle course to crisis exit
The euro zone has to tread a narrow path sown with landmines in the next few weeks to survive perhaps the most...
Poor nations a ray of hope for crisis-weary
Simple reforms would eliminate much of the risk of investing in poor countries, unleashing billions of dollars of pent up cash and...
Despair and resignation in Greece as more pain looms
The slogans on the street are about storming the barricades, but when you talk to Greeks about the financial crisis that has...
Fighting halts aid mission into Libyan siege city
A Red Cross convoy carrying aid to relieve a humanitarian crisis in Libya's besieged city of Sirte had to turn back because...
UN chief urges all sides to commit to political solution to...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon renewed his call on all sides in Libya to commit to a political process, lamenting the lack of progress...
Selling gold teeth to make ends meet in Greece
A smartly dressed woman waits as a young man behind a glass screen weighs her gold earrings, bracelets and rings and counts...
