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Title As El Salvador faces the double impact of hurricanes and COVID-19, NGOs step in 30 Dec 2020 Body After Tropical Storm Amanda in June, some 110 families from Tacuba received hygiene kits and tarpaulins from Oxfam, PROVIDA and CORDES with funds from ECHO. © Oxfam/Valerie Caamano Fondeur By Veronique Durroux-Malpartida, Head of the Information Unit in OCHA ROLAC Early forecasts warned that the 2020 hurricane season in the Atlantic would be very active, and for El Salvador, the impacts were felt early in the season. In June, tropical storms Amanda and Cristóbal generated lands...

Share this story Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing. When you rewind to the very very beginning, what’s your oldest memory of money? It’s definitely collecting Salah money at my grandparents’ house. Some people would willingly give me, and I’d tax some others.  Do you remember the first thing you ever did for money? Does washing snails for my aunty count? Anyway, I started working at my school’s radio station at the university. 

In the time of COVID-19, children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean have been and continue to be exposed to greater risk of becoming victims of violence in the home, while they also enjoy fewer protection factors, according to a document published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children. The document entitled Violence against children and adolescents in the time of COVID-19 warns that recent estimates ...

By Adesina Wahab, Joseph Erunke, Shina Abubakar & James Ogunnaike EVEN if the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, calls off its eight-month-old strike now, federal universities in the country are not likely to reopen until early next year, findings by Vanguard have revealed. Checks by our corespondents across the country show that the universities are yet to put in place COVID-19 safety protocols, while many of the lecture theaters and halls of residence, that have been abandoned for months, are now begging for attention. Also, the fumigation of campuses promised by the government in ...