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Starvation Risk Increases in Sudan Amid Escalating Violence in the East and West

July 12, 2024

(Nairobi, Kenya) Over half of Sudan's population, totaling 26.5 million people, is facing disastrous levels of hunger. This situation is forecasted to worsen as the country endures reduced agricultural output ahead of the next harvest in September 2024, while fighting continues to escalate. Since the beginning of July, an uptick in violence in Sinnar and [...]

Birth under Bombs – 9 Months of Hell in Gaza

July 10, 2024

9 months on from escalation of violence in Gaza, pregnant women 3 x more likely to miscarry(1) and 3 x more likely to die in childbirth(2) In the 9 months, or 40 weeks, that the violence in Gaza has now raged on, women there have conceived, miscarried, and birthed their babies. Instead of spending 9 months safely [...]

Starving in Statistics: CARE’s Response to Gaza Food Insecurity Report

June 26, 2024

In response to the latest IPC report on the level of food insecurity in Gaza, CARE's Interim Country Director for West Bank and Gaza, Daw Mohamed said: "Too often, in recent decades, the international community has failed to truly recognize the depth of suffering caused by hunger, focusing on terminology instead of on humanity. Data on food [...]

Women in war: New CARE report reveals how women are leaders in first response and recovery during armed conflict

June 13, 2024

600 million women around the world live within 50 kilometers of a conflict zone, more than double the number it was in the 1990s. Yet our understanding of how women experience war and respond in these highly complex crises is often clouded by narratives that frame them as, at worst, invisible, or at best, victims. Women in War: Leaders, Responders, and Potential, a [...]

Humanitarian assistance following landslide disaster in PNG hampered by blocked roads, tribal tensions and ongoing evacuation orders

June 7, 2024

Humanitarian assistance in Enga Province PNG, following the major landslide of 24 May, has been hampered by a lack of road access, increasing tribal tension, and a 72-hour evacuation order issued by local government this week, according to international humanitarian organisation, CARE. CARE is currently in the affected areas of Yambali Ward where the landslide [...]

Update from CARE Australia on the landslide in Enga, PNG, including launch of humanitarian appeal

May 27, 2024

The Provincial Disaster Management Office, the Enga Provincial Health Authority, the Provincial Police Force, the PNG Defense Force, and United Nations agencies (International Organization for Migration and UNDP), were quick to deploy teams who have assessed the situation over recent days, of the landslide which occurred in Enga Province in Papua New Guinea at 3am […]