Uganda faces refugee crisis, worst in decades

Can Ethiopia cope with worst drought in decades?

National Geographic
Is the Worst of Tanzania's Elephant Crisis Over?
National Geographic
After announcing devastating elephant losses, a top Tanzanian minister says the poaching crisis has been curtailed. Picture of an elephant in Tanzania. A male elephant in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park spreads his ears as a warning. Between 2009 ...

Top UN aid chiefs have begged donors to increase efforts to stave off looming famine in South Sudan, where a third of the population are in crisis after months of war.

South Sudan's food crisis is now the worst in the world, the UN Security Council warns, urging donor nations for urgent action.

In Taksim Square in central Istanbul, a lanky boy with tired eyes holds a sign in English in one hand and a passport in the other. His name is Adnan and he is in the same spot every day, near the entrance to Gezi Park, the site of violently repressed demonstrations in 2013.

Sierra Leone Times
Burundi Refugee Crisis Strains Tanzania Camps
Sierra Leone Times
NAIROBI, KENYA - The aid agency Oxfam says more than 70,000 refugees from Burundi have crossed the border into Tanzania fearing political violence at home. Aid agencies are seeking more support as disease and overcrowding take a toll on the refugee ...
Burundi refugee crisis Funds urgently needed as Tanzania camp numbers swellMENAFN.COM

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Voice of America
Burundi Refugee Crisis Puts Strain on Camps in Tanzania
Voice of America
NAIROBI, KENYA—. The aid agency Oxfam says more than 70,000 refugees from Burundi have crossed the border into Tanzania fearing political violence at home. Aid agencies are seeking more support as disease and overcrowding take a toll on the ...
Funds urgently needed as Tanzania camp numbers swellJakarta Post
Burundi Refugee Crisis - Funds Urgently Needed As Tanzania Camp Numbers ...AllAfrica.com

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Belgium, Brussels – Oct 28 – Bilateral meeting Between the EESC President Georges Dassis and the AU ECOSOCC President Joseph Chilengi at the occasion of the Second meeting of the EU-Africa Socio-Economic Actors Network.

-2nd meeting of the EU-Africa Socio-Economic Actors Network adopts joint resolution

An approach based on full cooperation with African countries and respect for human rights in tackling the refugee flows into the EU has the full support of civil society from both continents....

Kigoma, 25 May 2015 - The influx of 70,000 Burundian refugees to Tanzania is overstretching the capacity of the government of Tanzania and aid agencies to respond, as emergency aid workers struggle to meet the urgent demands of providing clean water, shelter and food to new arrivals, Oxfam warned today.
Existing Nyarugusu camp is already beyond capacity, with schools and churches being turned into temporary accommodation while more appropriate shelter can be built. Families who have made...