Kathy Long

Sep 12, 2023 | msn.com | Nick Beake |Kathy Long

Morocco's young are powering their country's desperate relief effort. In Taroudant's youth centre, volunteers from across the city and beyond have been answering calls for help on social media. Activists with rapidly rising numbers of followers are now coordinating the distribution of aid to the hundreds of communities without the most essential items. Milk, nappies, jam and bedding are all being passed along human chains, loaded into trucks destined for villages dotted across the Atlas mountains.

Sep 12, 2023 | bbc.com | Nick Beake |Kathy Long

By Nick Beake & Kathy LongMorocco's young are powering their country's desperate relief effort. In Taroudant's youth centre, volunteers from across the city and beyond have been answering calls for help on social media. Activists with rapidly rising numbers of followers are now coordinating the distribution of aid to the hundreds of communities without the most essential items.

Apr 26, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Caroline Hawley |Kathy Long |Michael Sheils McNamee |Jake Horton

Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought into feeding centres in the city of Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says. Since the start of the year, nearly 1,300 children have been admitted to intensive care - the highest number ever recorded in Borno state for this period, the medical charity says.

Apr 26, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | James Gregory |James Copnall |Caroline Hawley |Kathy Long

Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty ImagesOccasional sounds of gunfire are still reported in Sudan as the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces accuse each other of violating the three-day ceasefire. An Al-Arabiya TV correspondent has observed sporadic clashes between the army and RSF in some parts of the capital, Khartoum, this morning. A section of local media say RSF vehicles have been seen heading to Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman - a key route for those being evacuated.

Apr 26, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Kathryn Armstrong |Caroline Hawley |Kathy Long |André Rhoden-Paul

Kenyanstudents say their government is taking undue credit for helping them to escapeSudan when in many cases it is they themselves who have plotted and paid theirway to safety. A tweet by an official saying Kenyan diplomats had "facilitated" agroup of almost 30 students to reach Ethiopia has caused upset.