Jetways Airlines Fokker 50 (5Y-JWG, built 1990) was destroyed in a fatal accident on landing at Eelbarde Airstrip, Somalia. The cargo aircraft l ran off the runway and hit a house. At least one of both pilots did not survive. The cargo aircraft received non-repairable damages in the fatal accident while landing in Somalia. According […]
UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has released Ksh1 billion (US$10 million) from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help fight devastating desert locust outbreak in Kenya. We had highlighted the struggle to eradicate the deadly locusts here, Why We Can’t Eat Out The Locust Menace The outbreak, which is affecting the Horn of […]
Nils Melzer a UN expert who visited the 48-year-old Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a London prison on May 9, nearly a month after his arrest at Ecuador’s embassy where he was seeking asylum has said that the UK government wants to kill the whistleblower with psychological torture. The UN independent expert spoke to […]
Abdel-Adheem Hassan has emerged victorious in Sudan’s social media and internet blackout suit that he had filed. On the ruling made on Sunday, the lawyer won a lawsuit against Zain Sudan over the blackout that was ordered by Sudan’s military heads. Adheem’s victory has seen he be the only living person in the entire Sudan […]
A job with the UN remains one of the prestigious opportunities many people look up to but humanitarian work is not a walk in the sandy beaches as Sid would later come to learn in life. The oomph and the glamour that the organization beams is just a painting but not really what’s inside. As […]
