Rescuers clawed through mud in driving rain Wednesday in a desperate bid to find survivors from a huge landslide feared to have killed hundreds in villages in eastern Uganda. At least 80 bodies have already been found on the slopes of Mount Elgon and at least 300 people are missing in the villages, according to the Ugandan Red Cross, but ...

Almost three weeks after agreeing to a ceasefire ending a fierce war between the Yemeni army and northern rebels, the harder tasks lie ahead, with some 250,000 displaced people to return to their homes and civilian and military captives to be released. Shiite rebels have withdrawn from their positions in the northern city of Saada, allowing for a gradual ...

The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that it would draw a 4.7 million dollar loan from its reserves to sustain its relief operation in Yemen, which is threatened by a shortage of funds from donor nations. "This step is an alternative to scaling down or suspending UNHCR's protection and assistance programmes which would have an adverse and irreversible ...

SANAA (Reuters) - A ceasefire in northern Yemen has calmed a conflict that drove nearly quarter of a million people from their homes, but bloody images still haunt Ali Nasser. "I saw a soldier full of pain after being shot with a bullet in the stomach. I was so scared," the 10-year-old boy said. "The soldier was crying and bleeding. Blood ...