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Sahel Food Crisis - Update

18 May 2012 - Every year in the Sahel 300,000 children die of malnutrition. This year with the whole region affected by the serious drought and food shortages, UNICEF estimates that up to 4.5 million children under the age of five...

An emerging Egypt

18 May 2012 - Next week, on the 23-24 of May, Egyptians will be heading to the polls to vote for the country’s new president. It's only the second presidential election in Egypt's history with more than one candidate...

Russia's deadly relationships

18 May 2012 - A shocking statistic uncovered by a Russian government report states that an estimated 14,000 Russian women are killed every year by partners or other family members. But since few government statistics are available on violence against women in families, independent observers consider...

A boy named Moses

11 May 2012 - Moses loves football and like other twelve-year-old boys, loves to play it with his friends. However, unlike other boys, this doesn’t happen too often. That's because Moses is from a village in Uganda called Ogongora and his life is currently made up of more work than play. Before school and when he gets home in the evening, Moses has to help his family...

Rio earth summit - 2012

11 May 2012 - Twenty years on from the groundbreaking earth summit in Rio, countries will be gathering again for Rio+20 from 20-22 June for a UN summit...

A new Nepal?

4 May 2012 - Last June we asked you to pray specifically for the issue of freedom of religion in Nepal. This was being threatened by a draft law (Article 160 the ‘Offence against religions act’) which made it...

Inspiring justice in Sierra Leone

4 May 2012 - Last week, 27 April, marked 51 years since Sierra Leone gained independence. Emerging from a devastating 11-year civil war in 2002, the country is now one of the world’s largest producers of industrial diamonds and gemstones as well as having the third largest harbour in the world. Despite this, the country is still...

Conflict in the DRC

4 May 2012 - In Eastern DRC, in the region of North Kivu, the situation is deteriorating rapidly. After defecting from the Government army together with over 500 troops, ex CNDP rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda (known as "the Terminator") took control...

Hunger in Burkina Faso

27 April 2012 - Deteriorating food conditions in parts of Burkina Faso are leaving people eating just one small meal a day. Some communities are even being abandoned as hunger forces residents to leave in search of food. Tearfund partners in the West African country say...

DRC update

27 April 2012 - In 2011, a six-month prayer campaign called ‘the God of Miracles’ was launched for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tearfund staff from around the world and Tearfund partners prayed for God to work miracles in the run-up to the Congo’s elections. Click on this...