Humanitarian Crises

                   

Bush's War Criminal Friend

rockthetruth.blogspot.com     6 hrs ago   7 related          

One of many.Please see Keeping Up the Colombian Lie before you read today's bulls*** shovel. "Red Cross: Colombia violated conventions" by Frank Jordans, Associated Press | August 7, 2008 GENEVA - The International Red Cross...                    

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UN News Centre: Top UN relief official draws lessons from Myanmar cyclone aid effort

burmanet.org     3 hrs ago   4 related          

All nations need outside help when faced by a major natural disaster, according to the United Nations’ top humanitarian official, commenting today on the relief operations following Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. “No nation, rich...                    

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Conditions in Myanmar starker than portrayed

iht.com     3 hrs ago   1 related          

A rare bird's-eye look at Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis — broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains of bamboo huts and trees strewn like matchsticks along the coast.                    

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UN Provides $1.2 Million to Replace Burnt And Looted Aid Supplies

allafrica.com     6 hrs ago   1 related          

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 After aid supplies were burnt and looted during fighting in eastern Chad in mid-June, a United Nations emergency fund has stepped in to replace the supplies with a grant of $1.2 million. The...                    

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USAID Provides Assistance to Togo Flood Victims

prnewswire.com     3 hrs ago   1 related          

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an initial $50,000 to the Togolese Red Cross for the provision of emergency relief...                    

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Kenya: Too Many Firearms Threaten North

allafrica.com     8 hrs ago          

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 Nairobi The widespread availability of firearms in the northern regions of Kenya has exacerbated insecurity and more people are being killed during livestock raids. At least 60 people died while...                    

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Food Aid Emergency

fpif.org     5 hrs ago          

Sophia Murphy | August 7, 2008 Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco When sudden food price increases started to make headlines last summer, an estimated 852 million people were already living with crippling hunger, which the United...                    

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A special lunch in downtown Austin

cstv.com     3 hrs ago          

Mack and Sally Brown recently took time out of their schedules to serve food at Caritas of Austin, an organization that helps fight poverty, hunger and homelessness. With Texas in only its second day of practice on Tuesday, a...                    

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Medicines rushed to cholera-hit region

gulfnews.com     1 hr ago          

Manila: Philippine health workers headed to a remote southern township on Thursday to battle an outbreak of cholera that killed 20 people and left 147 others ill, an official said. Most of the victims of the outbreak in several...                    

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Coins Change Fortunes

allafrica.com     1 hr ago          

Posted to the web 7 August 2008 Chitungwiza When the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced its decision to revive old coinage, Samuel Mapuranga, 29, of Chitungwiza, a dormitory city 30km south of Harare, the capital, had...                    

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