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Christian Aid urges UK government to continue backing UN peace and sec...

February 19, 2013 no comments

Christian Aid is urging the UK Government to further support the signing and implementation of the United Nations recently proposed DRC and Great Lakes peace and security deal, which was inexplicably...

Christian Aid says escalating violence in northern Mali is fuelling hu...

January 27, 2013 no comments

The recent escalation of fighting and the subsequent displacement of people within Mali and to neighbouring countries is exacerbating the Sahel’s chronic food crisis and contributing to ever-rising l...

Christian Aid calls on UK to take stronger stand on Rwanda’s sup...

September 11, 2012 1 comment

History is repeating itself in the Democratic Republic of Congo with armed conflict once again exploding in the fragile eastern part of the country. Fighting between government forces, dissident grou...

Christian Aid partner organisations respond to cholera epidemic in Sie...

August 24, 2012 no comments

Christian Aid partner organisations in Sierra Leone are scaling up their community health work by introducing emergency health education programmes in response a cholera epidemic that has led to more...

Aid agencies and President of Niger call for urgent action to tackle S...

June 18, 2012 no comments

As prolonged drought and political instability worsen the current food crisis that is threatening more than 19 million people across the Sahel, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger met with UK Aid A...

Christian Aid responds to worsening Sahel hunger crisis

January 24, 2012 no comments

With seven million people across five West African countries facing the spectre of famine within months, Christian Aid is stepping up its early response plans to assist those living in the stricken S...

Christian Aid reports: Africa can get the energy it needs without addi...

November 10, 2011 no comments

Sub-Saharan Africa has massive potential to generate clean energy that could help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without exacerbating climate change, a new Christian Aid report sa...

Beverley Knight singing in Malawi - Photo - Christian Aid/Lee Thompson

Singer Beverley Knight visits Malawi with charity organisation Christi...

October 26, 2011 no comments

Singer Beverley Knight travelled to Malawi to see how UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is helping support local people living with HIV. She met HIV positive women and children ...

Christian Aid calls on the Kenyan government to open new refugee camp

July 13, 2011 no comments

Christian Aid today calls on the Kenyan government to open a refugee camp that is currently standing empty to cope with the 1,400 new arrivals daily, mostly women and children, fleeing drought and co...

Christian Aid calls on donor governments to honour G8 HIV commitments

November 30, 2010 1 comment

TEN MILLION PEOPLE STILL UNABLE TO ACCESS VITAL TREATMENT - This year’s World AIDS Day represents a critical milestone in international governments’ responses towards fighting the on-going global HIV...

Christian Aid calls for an end to tax anomalies in Tanzania

October 29, 2010 no comments

Christian Aid is calling on the winner of this Sunday’s general election in Tanzania to commit to ending tax anomalies that have deprived a country rich in mineral resources of badly needed revenue t...