USAID cuts ‘compounded Sudan's humanitarian situation'
Video Duration 01 minutes 14 seconds 01:14
Video Duration 01 minutes 34 seconds 01:34
Video Duration 01 minutes 21 seconds 01:21
Video Duration 00 minutes 42 seconds 00:42
Video Duration 00 minutes 34 seconds 00:34
Video Duration 00 minutes 37 seconds 00:37
Video Duration 00 minutes 44 seconds 00:44
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Al Jazeera
an hour ago
- Al Jazeera
LIVE: Israel kills 83 in Gaza as EU, UN condemn ‘alarming' invasion plan
Israeli forces killed at least 83 people across Gaza on Tuesday, including 58 aid seekers, as Gaza's Health Ministry said hospitals recorded eight more hunger-related deaths. United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca told the UN Security Council that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reported push to fully occupy Gaza is 'deeply alarming'. European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera also described the plan as an 'unacceptable provocation'.
Al Jazeera
9 hours ago
- Al Jazeera
UN says nearly 60,000 displaced by heavy fighting in northern Mozambique
Nearly 60,000 people have fled Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province in two weeks, a United Nations agency has said, amid a years-long rebellion by fighters affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Tuesday that escalating attacks that began on July 20 had displaced 57,034 people, or 13,343 families. Chiúre was the hardest-hit district, with more than 42,000 people uprooted, more than half of them children, the IOM said. 'So far, around 30,000 displaced people have received food, water, shelter, and essential household items,' Paola Emerson, who heads the Mozambique branch of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told the AFP news agency. Emerson said OCHA was preparing to step up its assistance in the coming days. 'The response, however, is not yet at the scale required to meet growing needs,' she said, in a context of cuts to international aid by the United States and other countries. 'Funding cuts mean life-saving aid is being scaled back,' she added. The UN's 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan for Mozambique has so far received only 19 percent of the pledges requested. The organisation also stressed that the lack of safety and documentation, and involuntary relocations, were compounding protection risks. The Southern African nation has been fighting a rebellion by a group known locally as al-Shabab, though with no links to the Somali fighters of a similar name, in the north for at least eight years. Rwandan soldiers have been deployed to help Mozambique fight them. More than 6,100 people have been killed since the beginning of the insurrection, according to conflict tracker ACLED, including 364 last year, according to data from the Africa Centre for Strategic Studies. Cabo Delgado has large offshore natural gas reserves, and the fighting caused the suspension of operations by the French company Total Energies in 2021. The French fossil fuel giant has said it hopes to re-ignite the $20bn gas project this summer. Human Rights Watch last month said the armed group had 'ramped up abductions of children', using them as fighters or for labour or marriage. The group said recruiting or using children under the age of 15 to participate actively in hostilities constitutes a war crime.
Al Jazeera
9 hours ago
- Al Jazeera
Nigeria sportswomen dominate again but pay remains an issue
As Nigerian women dominate sport on the continent, they're facing off not just against top talent abroad but a domestic atmosphere of mismanagement and pay disparities – and even the risk of repression for speaking out. Nigeria is fresh off a win at the finals of Women's AfroBasket, their fifth-consecutive championship at the continent's top hardwood basketball tournament, while last month the Super Falcons clinched their 10th Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) football title. The football team's successes, however, have come despite pay disparities compared with their male counterparts – when they are paid at all. The women receive a training camp allowance, but the bulk of their pay comes from per-match bonuses, which vary depending on the team's results. Both the women's basketball and football teams have been plagued by late or unpaid match bonuses for years, despite their records as arguably the best teams on the continent. But when the Super Falcons landed in Abuja after their 3-2 WAFCON victory over hosts Morocco last month, none of the players answered questions shouted by an AFP reporter in the press scrum about whether they would ask the president, who was welcoming them at his villa, about being paid the same as the men's team. Nigerian journalists on the scene said the question was useless: it was far too politically charged. 'If you speak up against what's going on, you completely lose the possibility of getting what you're entitled to, you could actually be blacklisted,' Solace Chukwu, senior editor at Afrik-Foot Nigeria, later told the AFP. Not that there are no clashes: In 2021, basketballers called out the authorities when they topped Africa, protesting against unpaid match bonuses. The Nigeria Basketball Federation at the time denied any wrongdoing, blaming the issue on clerical errors. Like the basketball team, the women's football team has found remarkable success, stemming in part from the country's population of more than 200 million, the largest on the continent, complemented by a widespread diaspora. They also benefitted from early investments in women's football at a time when other African countries focused on men's teams, Chukwu said, helping the Super Falcons win the first seven editions of the WAFCON, from 1991 to 2006. Yet they only played a handful of test matches before they landed in Morocco for this year's competition, cobbled together at the last second. The Super Falcons have not been completely silent in the face of mismanagement and disinterest from authorities. But rocking the boat too much appears to come with a cost. 'Players who lead or dare to protest… always risk not being invited or sidelined outrightly,' said Harrison Jalla, a players' union official. After Super Falcons captain Desire Oparanozie – now a commentator – led protests over unpaid wages at the 2019 Women's World Cup, she was stripped of her captaincy and not called up for the 2022 tournament. Former men's coach Sunday Oliseh – who himself was let go from the national squad amid protests over backpay in the early 2000s – called the situation a case of 'criminal' retaliation. The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) at the time denied that it dropped Oparanozie over the protests. The NFF and the Super Falcons did not respond to an AFP request for comment on the allegations that players are afraid to speak out. Players still have hopes for women's sports to expand. 'I think the sky is the limit,' Nigerian point guard Promise Amukamara told AFP in Abuja, fresh off her AfroBasket win. 'Obviously, more facilities should be built around Nigeria. I feel like, maybe one year, we should host the AfroBasket.' Aisha Falode, an NFF official, meanwhile, called on the government to 'invest in the facilities, invest in the leagues and the players, because the women's game can no longer be taken lightly'. Despite the challenges, women's sport is still finding a foothold among younger fans. Justina Oche, 16, a player at a football academy in Abuja, told the AFP that the exploits of the team inspired her to pursue a career in the sport. 'They say what a man can do, a woman can do even better,' said the youngster, whose role model is six-time African Footballer of the Year Asisat Oshoala. 'The Super Falcons have again proved this.'
