#Conflicts

Grain deal. Cutelli (WFP): “Suspension is pointless shock for 345 million hungry people.”

“We are very concerned about the non-renewal of the grain deal, which allowed food to be exported from Ukrainian ports…

Stop to the grain deal. Beccegato (Caritas): “It would have a serious impact on world hunger.” Calls for mediation and a rethink

“A possible complete and definitive halt to the grain deal would create a huge problem, which is why we must…

Sudan, two months of conflict. Volunteers distribute emergency aid in Khartoum, severe shortages in El Geneina where people are dying

Fighting has been raging for two months and the situation is catastrophic: 2.2 million people have been displaced and at…

Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch: “Ethnic cleansing persists in Tigray region”

On November 2 2022, the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a ceasefire agreement following…

Sudan: ceasefire fails to hold. Cavalletti (Caritas): “Rampant violence and looting. Hundreds of thousands of refugees on South Sudan border need humanitarian aid”

The one-week ceasefire agreed on May 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, failed to hold. Violent clashes and airstrikes resumed in…

Sudan: Borrell (EU), “cease hostilities, respect rights, allow space for dialogue”. Solidarity with the Sudanese population

Yemen. Ferraresi (MSF): “Children are no longer dying from bombs – they are dying from starvation and diarrhoeal diseases”

The de facto truce in Yemen that came into effect in April 2022 is holding, but the conflict, now in…

Ukraine: Borrell (EU), “increased risk of nuclear accident in Zaporizhzhia”

Democratic Republic of Congo: EU, new funds and a humanitarian air bridge to help people affected by conflict in North Kivu

Moldova on high alert. Appeal of the Church: “Fuelling internal conflicts can be dangerous”

“The Church upholds the cause of peace and supports whatever can be done to bring peace to Moldova and Ukraine.…

Fr Piumatti ( missionary in North Kivu for more than 50 years), “crushed by the oppressive presence of armed groups. Goma without food supplies”

While the Pope is in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he will remain until February 3rd…