Category Archives: Worldwide

A cholera outbreak was reported in Yemen on 27th April 2017. Since then, the number of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) or suspected cholera cases has increased to over 200,000, including 1,500 deaths. The infection rate is rising rapidly at a rate of 5000 per day. The outbreak has affected 21 out of Yemen’s 22 governorates: […]

The humanitarian situation in the East Africa is worsening. There are multiple factors including early cessation and under performance of the seasonal rains in large parts of the region and the continued conflict in South Sudan, outbreak of cholera/ Acute Watery Diarrhoea in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan and measles affecting children under five years olds. [...]

How we are responding to the global refugee crisis Since Islamic Relief first formed more than 30 years ago we have been on the frontline of responding to the needs of forced migrants around the world. Today the world has reached crisis point as the number of refugees exceeds 20 million – the highest figure for […]

Three consecutive years of droughts and flooding have left half of the population of Malawi in Southern Africa needing food aid. Balaka, in the southern region of the country, is one of the worst-affected districts. Thousands of farmers did not harvest enough food to feed their families this year; either because of the lack of […]

Outstanding climate change project is recognised by The Charity Awards A three-year £3 million programme supporting more than 100,000 people to protect themselves against disasters and climate change has made the shortlist at The Charity Awards 2017. The programme reached out to remotely located people in one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate […]

Our latest annual report from Syria shows that last year alone Islamic Relief supported more than 3 million people across Syria and neighbouring countries Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. With the conflict now in its seventh year, more than half of the Syrian population have fled their homes with 13.5 million people in desperate need of […]