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The violence struck near Goma, as Ambassador Luca Attanasio rode in a U.N. World Food Program convoy near the DRC's eastern borders with Rwanda and Uganda.

Luca Attanasio died of his injuries as the unidentified attackers opened fire on the convoy, killing another official and a driver.

© getty An attack on a United Nations convoy has killed the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy’s foreign ministry said Monday. The ministry said the convoy, which belonged to the UN World Food Program, came under fire near Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Casualties included Ambassador Luca Attanasio, Italian military police officer Vittorio Iacovacci and an unnamed third person, according to the BBC....

The locusts are back, and they are hungry.  Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia.  Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but now the locusts have returned and one British news source is using the world “biblical” to describe this second wave.  At this moment, the Horn of Africa is being hit the hardest, and the UN is warning that this new infestation “threatens the...

Luca Attanasio died of his injuries as the unidentified attackers opened fire on the convoy, killing another official and a driver.

Climate Extremes, Food Insecurity, and Migration in Central America: A Complicated Nexus Format By Diego Pons There is growing evidence that climate extremes are having a devastating impact on agriculture in Central America, affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and serving as a driver of migration from the region. Both droughts and floods have been shown to have serious financial impacts in many rural areas. Droughts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomeno...

As previously reported, after notice that TPLF resistance in Tigray continued openly and visibly despite the shockwave of the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies with extensive use of bombing civilians in November and December 2020, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, requested the Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki to launch a second offensive in Tigray with the aimLeggi di più

Share on Twitter At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, four UN agencies said on Friday. The warnings come nearly six years after the outbreak of war that rendered 80 per cent of the population reliant on humanitarian aid. In a report published on Friday, the agencies projected a 22 per cent increase in severe acute malnutrition amo...

DUBAI: At least 400,000 Yemeni children under 5 could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic,...

At least 400,000 Yemeni children under 5 could die of starvation this year: UN