Tag: Humanitarian assistance
Russia says Syria can deliver aid, Turkey not essential
UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow disagrees that there is no alternative to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest except from...
AP Interview: UN aid chief says we must tackle crises causes
UNITED NATIONS — The outgoing U.N. humanitarian chief warned that “the explosion” in needs for humanitarian assistance in recent years will keep getting worse...
Syria’s last aid crossing in balance as Biden to meet Putin
President Joe Biden will seek to stave off another surge of civilian suffering in the devastating war in Syria when he meets President Vladimir...
Mormons and NAACP seek to advance work with new initiatives
SALT LAKE CITY — Top leaders from the NAACP and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced $9.25 million in new educational...
Pope demands food aid reach starving people of Tigray
ROME — Pope Francis demanded Sunday that humanitarian aid reach hungry people in the war-torn Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where Ethiopian and Eritrean...
UN official: Key committee says 350,000 in famine in Tigray
UNITED NATIONS — A high-level U.N.-led committee that focuses on rapid responses to humanitarian crises estimates that some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray...
Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine, 2 million a step away
UNITED NATIONS — A report issued Thursday warns that over 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray province are facing famine and over 2 million are...
US envoy: Syrians face ‘senseless cruelty’ if border is shut
ANKARA, Turkey — The closure of a final humanitarian border crossing into Syrian could cause “senseless cruelty” to millions of Syrians, the U.S. ambassador...
Aid worker killed in Tigray as humanitarians are targeted
KAMPALA, Uganda — An Ethiopian national working for an Italian charity was killed in the war-hit Tigray region on Saturday after he was “hit...
US envoy heads to Turkey seeking to ensure aid to Syrians
UNITED NATIONS — The U.S ambassador to the United Nations headed to Turkey late Tuesday seeking to ensure that humanitarian aid can be delivered...