His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Wife HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein have been blessed with a baby boy. The International Humanitarian City and…
UNHCR is alarmed by a string of recent security incidents targeting the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee settlement and shelters more than 460,000 people. An explosion on Monday at the Hagadera camp killed…
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Abu-Dhabi, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, held a press briefing session to update the media on the humanitarian situation in Somalia. The media session…
UN agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations in Yemen sound the alarm as the crisis in Yemen has spread from people directly affected by conflict to millions of ordinary Yemenis across the country, particularly women and children. Children are growing up in…
The International Humanitarian City (IHC), chaired by HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, celebrated the UAE’s 40th National Day in…
Life for Relief and Development just completed the most successful Uhiyah/Qurbani campaign in its 19 year history. With the blessings of Allah (SWT) and the generosity of its donors, more than 1 million people benefited from the distribution of fresh…
1 – Rainfall, disease, hitting refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia More than a month after the kidnapping of three aid workers in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex, insecurity continues to affect aid efforts. The situation is being exacerbated by heavy rains…
إن تباطؤ الاقتصاد العالمي والأزمة المالية كان تركيز النقاش في قمة مجموعة الـ20. ولكن من المهم أن لا تمنع القضايا الاقتصادية قادة مجموعة الـ20 من معالجة مشكلة أخرى تؤثر على الملايين من الناس حول العالم وهي الجوع. وتطرقت فرنسا، رئيسة…
The global economic downturn and financial crisis will understandably be the focus of much discussion at the Cannes summit of the Group of 20. But it is crucial that the serious nature of these economic issues does not prevent the…
Micro-hydro power (MHP) is the conversion of energy from flowing water into electricity. Flowing water turns a turbine, which in turn converts this created energy to electricity. While traditional water wheels use the power of running water to work milling…