16 October 2018|06 Safar 1440|Independent Yemen could face the “worst famine in the world in 100 years” if fighting continues, the United Nations has warned, as The Independent learned an official declaration of famine would likely be announced in just a ...
24 July 2018|10 Dhul Qa’dha 1439|Middle east monitor Yemen is close to famine after a 25-percent increase in levels of severe hunger this year and an offensive on the main port city of Hodeida, a lifeline for millions, humanitarian organisations warned ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|24 April 2018| 07 Shabaan 1439 In Nigeria 88,000 children are at risk of death due to acute malnutrition in the region, a UNICEF official said. According to UNICEF Chief Field Officer Geoffrey Ijumba, during the closing speech at ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 08 January 2018| 21 Jumadul Ula 1439 Authorities in Myanmar have robbed, abducted and deliberately starved Rohingya men, women and children, in an effort to make life “so intolerable” for members of the minority group that they ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 26 October 2017| 05 Safar 1439 Hamouria – Manal boils water on the stove in the besieged Syrian town of Hamouria, hoping to convince her four children that she is cooking, but she has no food. She puts ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|13 October 2017| 22 Muharram 1439 The Burmese army is now using starvation as a new cruel tactic to drive the remaining communities of the Muslim Rohingya minority out of Burma, British Rohingya activists have claimed. Military and government ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 18 September 2017| 27 Dhul Hijjah 1438 The number of starving people in the world rose in 2016 after it had remained steady for the past 10 years. It increased by 38 million and reached 815 million, ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 13 July 2017| 18 Shawaal 1438 UN special envoy wants to restart talks as humanitarian chief warns that seven million are ‘on the cusp of famine’ United Nations officials have warned that the conflict in the Arab world’s ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 23 June 2017| 28 Ramadaan 1438 The UN health agency and some major partners have agreed to send one million doses of cholera vaccine to Yemen to help staunch a spiraling and increasingly deadly caseload in the ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 14 June 2017| 19 Ramadaan 1438 In Yemen, cholera is spreading so quickly that one child is infected nearly every 35 seconds, according to Save the Children. The infectious disease, which is spread via contaminated food and ...
