Methodist Church recognises a climate emergency
Faced with a climate emergency the Methodist Conference has called on the UK to achieve net zero emissions well before
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Korean Christians say food situation is so desperate that growth of children is stunted
Lack of food is stunting children’s growth in North Korea, according to an eyewitness. Food shortages threaten an entire generation
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Are the Sustainable Development Goals good news for the poor?
It has been over two years since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were signed off in New York. These 17 goals have an emphasis on
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Search for escaped Ebola patients
One police officer was killed and four Ebola patients are missing after the treatment centre they were in was attacked
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Venezuelan pirates – the new scourge of the Caribbean
As Venezuela’s economy collapses, a tide of lawlessness is spreading to the nearby island of Trinidad. Its fishermen now live
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Migrant crisis: UN says six die every day in Mediterranean crossings
An average of six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day last year, a UN report says. Italy had earlier
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Research body to fund humanitarian efforts
Britain’s new research agency has announced it will spend £279m on new non-EU international collaborations. The bulk of the money
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Rohingya return to Myanmar: Confusion and fear in refugee camps
No Rohingya refugees voluntarily chose to return to Myanmar from camps in Bangladesh on the first day of a planned
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Sudan runs out of cash causing long queues
An economic crisis is deepening in Sudan with long queues outside banks and ATMs because of an acute shortage of
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Tanzania’s Magufuli deploys military amid cashew nut crisis
Tanzanian authorities have deployed the military to buy cashew nuts from farmers to solve a row over prices. President John
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2,600 sexual violence victims treated in one Congolese town
Doctors without Borders says it has treated 2,600 victims of sexual violence in just one town since May last year.
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Venezuela crisis hits food markets and a morgue
Millions of Venezuelans have left the country in the last two years, fleeing the oil-rich nation’s economic collapse. Shortages of
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Venezuelans escape to Spain and ask to return old favour
Once, Spaniards fleeing repression and poverty in Francisco Franco’s dictatorship found themselves building new lives in Venezuela, given refuge by
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The spectre of starvation haunts millions as East Africa’s food crisis rages on
East Africa’s hunger crisis will reach catastrophic proportions without immediate action from the global community, Christian Aid has warned. The
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Don’t forget social care as new government takes shape
The crisis in social care – a key issue in the General Election – must not be abandoned or forgotten
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