More than half of Britons would support a tax on financial transactions if part of the money was directed to help people hit ...
UN food official questions world's commitment to fighting hunger The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit ...
Twenty-five years after Ethiopia's famine killed a million people and spurred a massive global aid effort, the government appealed Thursday for help for more than six million facing starvation. State Minister for Agriculture Mitiku Kassa said the drought-stricken country needed 159,000 tonnes ...
Twenty-five years after Ethiopia's famine killed a million people and spurred a massive global aid effort, the government appealed on Thursday for help for more than six million facing starvation. State Minister for Agriculture Mitiku Kassa said the drought-stricken country needed 159,000 ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country's notorious famine. Aid workers say a five-year drought is afflicting more than ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Poverty and climate hazards make the southeast United States the country's most vulnerable area to climate change impact, Oxfam America said on Wednesday. A report released by the relief organization identified high-risk "hotspots" across 13 southeast states from Arkansas ...
NGOs expressed concern Tuesday that European countries would "cannibalise" aid budgets rather than provide new funding to tackle climate change, after EU ministers failed to agree on the issue. European finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg failed to agree who will pay what ...
The European Union is putting the interests of big drug companies ahead of those of millions of people without access to essential medicines, two non-governmental organisations said Tuesday. The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, was also accused of acting against the ...
In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 photo, chopped down trees can be seen, in the Mau forest in Kenya. A drought has swept across East Africa, leaving 23 million people in need of food aid this year, according to aid organization Oxfam. ...
Some 2.1 million people have died either directly or indirectly from armed violence over the last three years as talks on a global arms trade treaty have stalled, campaigners said Wednesday. More than 2,000 people have died from such violence every day ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people around the world are dying from armed violence each day, on average, advocacy groups said on Tuesday, urging nations to launch negotiations on a treaty to regulate the arms trade. A report by the ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - As many as 6.2 million Ethiopians need emergency humanitarian assistance due to severe drought, an official from the Oxfam charity said on Monday. The Ethiopian government puts the number in need at 5.3 million. Pastoralist communities in the ...
