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ADRA calls for cessation of hostilities
The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is among 20 non-governmental agencies publically calling for a dramatic shift in current restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Somalia. -
Horn of Africa—a slow motion tsunami
Last month images of parched terrain, dry riverbeds and hungry children seeped onto our screens and into our newspapers. But the crisis in the Horn of Africa—Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda—has been two years in the making. -
ADRA continues famine relief in Somalia
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is continuing famine relief efforts in Somalia despite attempts by an insurgent group to ban Western aid organizations from the country and block starving Somalis from fleeing the country to neighboring Kenya an -
ADRA meets urgent needs in East Africa
More than 10 million people are without enough food or water as a result of severe droughts throughout East Africa. In response, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency Australia is supporting efforts to provide food and water to those worst affected. -
ADRA ordered out of Somalia
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is one of three humanitarian agencies that Somalia's ruling militant group is asking to leave the region. Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen declared that ADRA, World Vision and Diakonia can no longer operate insi