One of the absurd tragedies of the Yemen conflict has been the plight of the thousands of migrants who have traveled to Yemen, despite the ongoing conflict. Driven by the promise of finding gainful employment elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula,...
Ethiopia has been getting quite a bit of attention in the news lately for taking seemingly significant shifts towards becoming an open democracy. Earlier this year, intensifying protests led to the sudden resignation of the prime minister, who took office...
Something truly remarkable in African history and global affairs occurred on June 26 when Eritrean leaders flew to the capitol of Ethiopia for peace talks. This was the first a high level meeting between these erstwhile foes in nearly twenty...
What three conditions trigger the United Nations to declare a “famine?” Â What causes a famine? And how do you stop a famine? These questions are acute right now as the world faces an unprecedented number of people living in famine...
Secretary General António Guterres has spent the last few days in East Africa, visiting nations there that are slammed by drought and facing rising food prices. The drought, he said, looks to be the worst the area has seen in...
Nearly a year of protests against land reform issues and heavy-handed government policies is starting to take its toll on Ethiopia, who earlier this month announced a six-month state of emergency. Often hailed as a rising star and economic stronghold of...
This video, from the Thompson Reuters Foundation, is a powerful first person account of the epic drought currently being experienced in parts of Ethiopia. For older Ethiopians, it is bringing up unsettling memories of the massive famine of the 1980s....
Yemen, as you know doubt know, is currently in the midst of an awful civil war. The conflict began in March last year. Thousands have been killed in the fighting and hundreds of thousands displaced. Humanitarian conditions are abysmal. Hospitals...
The latest bulletin released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, contains this very alarming sentence: “The level of acute need across virtually all humanitarian sectors has already exceeded levels seen in the Horn of Africa...