English

More about this topic

Nepal

Nepal death toll rises: UN announces 8 million affected by earthquake

A race against time in the search for survivors: as the death toll rises, the UN announces eight million people are affected by the Nepal earthquake.

Nepal

Nepal earthquake disaster: Who is donating what?

Nepal’s government has struggled in the wake of the country’s worst earthquake in nearly a century, and its officials have been largely absent from

Nepal

Nepal earthquake: Kathmandu's Bir Hospital full to overflowing

Kathmandu’s Bir Hospital is full to overflowing following Saturday’s (April 25) deadly earthquake. Reports suggest between 7,000 and 8,000 people

Nepal

Nepal quake: emergency workers begin delivering aid to remote areas

More than 48 hours after Nepal’s deadly earthquake, aid workers are starting to reach remote areas outside Kathmandu. An Indian team has flown in by

ADVERTISEMENT

Europe News

Amnesty says EU "negligent" in migrant tragedy

Amnesty International blames the crisis on the end of Italy's Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation is to blame for dramatic increase in number of migrant deaths.

Italy

Fears that 30,000 migrants could die crossing Mediterranean in 2015

A dire warning has been issued as survivors of Sunday’s shipwreck arrived in Sicily, after a disaster that left up to 900 people dead. It is feared

Europe News

EU urged to change course over world's deadliest sea crossing

After yet more lives lost in the Mediterranean sea, human rights activists are demanding the EU changes course on its migration and asylum policies

Kenya

UNHCR mulls Kenya's call to close Dadaab camp for Somali refugees

The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing

Yemen

Crucial medical aid arrives in Yemen

Two planes carrying emergency medical aid have landed in the Yemen capital Sana’a. The delivery of 16 tonnes of supplies is the first international

Chad

Nigerian refugees bear terror trauma from Boko Haram

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) has deployed an emergency team to Chad. The NGO is helping an estimated 18,300 refugees and

World News

Australia's Northern Territories battered by Cyclone Nathan

Australia’s Northern Territories have been battered by Cyclone Nathan that’s brought heavy rain, winds and gusts of more than one hundred and fifty

Vanuatu

Vanuatu aid distribution may be too slow to feed cyclone survivors

The islanders of cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu, after surviving one of the strongest storms on record last week now face running out of food, the

Vanuatu

Vanuatu appeals for aid after Cyclone Pam destruction

There are reports of “utter devastation” on the outer islands of Vanuatu after the massive Cyclone Pam that tore through the South Pacific nation at

Vanuatu

Vanuatu hit hard by Typhoon Pam

The Pacific may have seen the worst of Typhoon Pam as winds are now subsiding, but it has left a trail of destruction in her wake, notably on the

Syria

UN resolutions have 'failed' people of Syria, say aid groups

On the fourth anniversary of the Syrian conflict, a report by several charities and humanitarian organisations finds that in 2014, the worst year of the war to date, three United Nations Security Coun

Ukraine

Debaltsevo residents in eastern Ukraine flee fighting through humanitarian corridor

Dozens of buses with local residents on board have left the conflict zone in Debaltsevo in eastern Ukraine. They have been guaranteed a safe passage

Ukraine

Displaced Ukrainians receive planeload of EU aid, more to follow

Tens of thousands of people displaced by renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine have received a planeload of humanitarian aid from the European Union

Central African Republic

African aid group hopes kidnapped French worker will be freed

Caritas, one of the main aid groups in Central African Republic say it’s optimistic a kidnapped French charity worker could be released today. The

Greece

Greece: Soup kitchens feed thousands this Christmas

With unemployment running at around 25% and no let-up in the ongoing economic crisis gripping Greece, thousands of Athenians have been forced to

My Europe Series

Open wounds in the Central African Republic