Standing proud in South Sudan

The world’s newest country was set to be celebrating its sixth year of existence today (Sunday 9 July) but…

Where could the need be greatest in 2017?

Syria, Yemen, Haiti, South Sudan and Iraq are some of the countries of conflict and crisis which dominated 2016. This year, according to the UN, almost 93 million people in 33 countries will need humanitarian aid.

Six messages of hope from six years of conflict

On 15 March 2011, major unrest broke out in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Aleppo, escalating a civil uprising triggered earlier in the month in the southern city of Daraa. No one could have foreseen that six years later we would have witnessed…

A mother’s greatest challenge

It was Elizabeth’s first time at the Tearfund feeding centre in Maar, South Sudan, when I met her. A…

Famine is over in South Sudan, but people are still eating leaves

Kenya’s drought: ‘Even camels are dying’

Drought is devastating parts of Kenya, and there is concern for the lives of many people…

When the rain doesn’t fall

The way people in Somaliland talk about the current drought tells a story in itself. For me, adjectives like…

Somaliland: still waiting for rain

‘Before the drought we were self-sufficient. We had a large number of animals — they gave us enough…