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Category - East Africa

1 Oct 2011

Responding to the reality of the East Africa drought

Southern Ethiopia is being devastated by a drought that has taken the lives of more than 300,000 livestock, threatening the future of the pastoralist communities who rely on them.
13 Aug 2011

Church leaders seek long term solutions to Horn of Africa food crisis

Religious leaders are exploring short and long term strategies for communities to end reliance on food aid in Africa, in the wake of the current crisis.
3 Aug 2011

British public contribute £42m to urgent East Africa appeal

The British public has contributed £42 million to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeal for more than 10 million people in East Africa.
20 Jul 2011

Rawlings in emotional appeal for famine-hit Somalia

The African Union envoy to Somalia, Jerry Rawlings, has made an emotional appeal to the world to provide emergency aid to the famine-hit region.
19 Jul 2011

UK public's Africa emergency donations exceed £15 million

Donations from the UK public to the emergency appeal for people suffering from severe food shortages in East Africa have now exceeded £15 million.
13 Jul 2011

Kenya asked to open empty refugee camp as crisis worsens

Christian Aid has called on the Kenyan government to open a refugee camp that is currently standing empty to cope with the 1,400 new daily arrivals.
8 Jul 2011

East Africa: Behind the famine

Millions of people across East Africa are looking down the barrel of the worst famine for 60 years. Thousands of families have picked up their possessions to walk towards what they hope is better pasture land, towards countries that might hold the promise of food.
8 Jan 2010

Gay Christians speak out in east Africa

Large numbers of gay, lesbian and bisexual Christians in east Africa are accepting their sexuality while continuing to live out their faith, according to the Other Sheep network, which supports gay Christians around the world.
5 Nov 2009

Fall of Berlin Wall continues to inspire, says world churches' chief

Christian resistance contributed significantly to the fall of the Berlin Wall, says the Rev Sam Kobia, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, on the 20th anniversary of the epochal event that ended the cold war.
17 Mar 2007

East African livelihoods at risk in trademark threat

Traidcraft Exchange, allied to the Christian-based fair trade agency, is leading an international coalition to back African workers threatened by a UK trademark application

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