More than 120,000 people are trapped inside the eastern Libyan city of Derna by heavy fighting between Islamists and forces commanded by General Khalifa Haftar.A U.N. report Thursday said Derna had suffered through “unprecedented” violence over the pas…
Day: May 31, 2018
Nigerian Activists Warn of Human Trafficking Danger
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA, When night falls in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the human traffickers enter the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.People come there in the evening for recruiting, I can say, taking young girls, going away with them. I see…
Flood-Stricken Somalia Needs More Aid to Avert Humanitarian Crisis
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, The World Food Program is calling for stronger international support for hundreds of thousands of Somalis impacted by some of the heaviest rains to hit their country in three decades. The rainfall that began last month has caused w…