Food distribution is being stopped. Health services are being shut down. Lifesaving aid is being tied up, with no way to ...

Learn more about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and how humanitarian organizations are ...

JOHANNESBURG - More than 50 community organisations are calling for heads to roll over the death of illegal miners in Stilfontein. The latest calls come as lobby groups mull their next move in what ...

Trump's decision to suspend aid is "deepening humanitarian crises and putting an untold number of lives at risk, according to ...

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...

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Labor organizations have sued the federal government on behalf of foreign service workers over the gutting of USAID.

DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dubai Humanitarian, the world's largest humanitarian aid hub, leading efforts to provide aid to those affected by the crisis in Gaza, has released data from ...

Development organizations that program and deliver billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid warn they may have to shut ...

Thousands of USAID employees learned this week that they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday amid slashes to the federal workforce.

Nearly all of USAID’s global workforce will be laid off, multiple outlets reported Thursday, a move that comes as President Donald Trump and several members of his administration have discussed ...

A little over a week ago, the town of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) fell to the Congolese rebel group, M23. The response to its fall by the DR Congo government, the United ...