Weeping Rwandans told "never again" 20 years after genocide
Some people attending a ceremony in Kigali to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide were so overcome they had to be lead out of the stadium
Ethiopia: WFP, UNHCR Chiefs Shine Spotlight On Plight Of South Sudanese Refugees
With conflict continuing in South Sudan, WFP's Executive Director Ertharin Cousin and UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres are calling on the international community to step up their humanitarian response. The two UN agency heads spoke with refugees, government officials and humanitarian workers during a visit last week to Ethiopia, which is registering one of the highest numbers of South Sudanese refugees.
South Sudan's President Kiir attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre during the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the genocide, in the Rwandan capital Kigali April 7, 2014. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during the genocide. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (RWANDA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
20 years after the genocide in Rwanda: lessons learned and unlearned
The international community cannot claim to care about atrocity crimes and then shrink from the commitment of resources and will required to actually prevent them
U.N. Security Council demands better Darfur peacekeeping force
The Security Council's appeal comes after U.N. and AU officials sounded an alarm last week over the worsening violence in Darfur, which has led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people this year
Blog From South Sudan: South Sudanese Need Food And Peace
Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, has just finished a three-day visit to South Sudan and Ethiopia, where she traveled alongside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to see first-hand the devastating impact of the South Sudan crisis. In her latest blog, the WFP chief talks about meeting people in the town of Nyal who have fled a deadly combination of violence and hunger.
UNHCR, WFP Leaders Witness Shocking State Of South Sudanese Refugees During Ethiopia Visit
ADDIS ABABA, 2 April 2014 - As tens of thousands of South Sudanese continue to flee their conflict-torn homeland, the heads of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) travelled to Ethiopia's border region of Gambella from neighboring South Sudan to meet refugees who recently fled the conflict.
Aid bureaucracy, suspicion threaten to deepen S.Sudan crisis -MSF
Biggest coming challenge is providing food to replace crops that would have been planted by the now displaced population