Humanitarian Crisis
Humanitarian Crisis'Proud' Tongans determined to rebuild battered homeland after eruption
Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week's devastating eruption and tsunami as a massive clean up continued Saturday in the Pacific kingdom
Taliban team expected in Oslo for aid talks: Norway
A Taliban delegation is expected to hold talks with Norwegian officials and Afghan civil society representatives in Oslo next week, the Norwegian foreign ministry said Friday
Humanitarian crisis
Offer support without any 'political basis': Taliban deputy PM
The Taliban's deputy prime minister on Friday urged the global community to offer support to Afghan people without any "political basis" as the country faces a major humanitarian crisis
How Afghanistan's asset freeze hurts everyone
Afghan businessman Shoaib Barak is struggling to pay his workers and suppliers, unable to access funds from a banking system crippled by the freezing of the nation's overseas assets
Hundreds queue for passports in bid to leave Afghanistan
Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan's capital to queue outside the passport office early Sunday, a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume issuing travel ...
Afghan babies succumb to hunger as winter descends
The Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-run facility in Herat, western Afghanistan's biggest city, seeks to help the community cope with a public health system on its last legs, hobbled by the withdrawal ...
Taliban asks EU for help with Afghanistan's airports
The Taliban asked for help in keeping Afghanistan's airports running in weekend talks with EU officials that also raised "grave concern" about the humanitarian situation in their country, according ...
Afghanistan sanctions behind 'infuriating' suffering: Red Cross
Economic sanctions are causing massive suffering in crisis-wracked Afghanistan, a top Red Cross official said Monday, describing the situations as "infuriating"
Afghanistan's food crisis a 'legacy' of previous government: Taliban
The UN has warned that around 22 million Afghans or half the country will face an "acute" food shortage in the winter months due to the combined effects of drought caused by global warming and an ...
Climate change risks 'runaway' humanitarian crisis, aid system collapse: UN
In the six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015, Madagascar has had only one decent rainy season, leaving more than a million people severely hungry in the southeast ...
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