Severe flooding and deadly conflicts between the government and opposition forces since 2013 has destroyed communities and homes in South Sudan. Many in Central Equatoria have been forced to evacuate homes and belongings, to live under open air rife with diseases. The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for priority aid in the […]
“A piece of good news from 2020: we’ve banned the bomb!” the International Committee of Red Cross tweeted on Sunday. “Yesterday the 50th State ratified the treaty to ban nuclear weapons,” alluding to Honduras who, on Saturday, signed the international treaty to ban nuclear weaponry, carrying the move forward. “They must never be used again,” […]
Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the international treaty banning nuclear weapons, a UN official said Saturday, allowing for the historic call to enter into force after 90 days. While nuclear-armed powers have not signed up to the treaty, activists who have pushed for its enactment hold out hope that it will nonetheless prove […]
More than 1,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago. Beefed-up security on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast is pushing traffickers and migrants south to risk the perilous crossing to the Canaries, located around 60 miles (97 km) […]
