Obama visits flood-displaced Ethiopians
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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., visited a sprawling tent camp in eastern Ethiopia on Thursday for people displaced by devastating floods earlier this month, saying the U.S. military will continue to help the region.
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The interim president of Haiti, President Boniface Alexandre, yesterday appealed to world leaders for aid as the death toll from the country&#39;s second flooding disaster in four months reached more than 700.
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Ethiopia, a country more often associated by Americans with drought, famine and conflict, has become a hot spot for international adoption.
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The U.S. government is rushing relief supplies to Guyana, the U.S. ambassador said Saturday, after heavy rains and flooding that have killed at least six people and displaced thousands of others.
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Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion &#151; so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.
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President George W Bush was today visiting hurricane-stricken Florida and Alabama - the third such visit to Florida â-s Hurricane Ivan victims faced another day of digging through debris for their belongings and waiting hours in queues for food and
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More than a week after floods devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of residents, some still perched on roofs.
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US Senator Barack Obama visits a key political testing ground amid fresh speculation about political ambitions.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling to Sudan and Ethiopia this week as part of his diplomatic initiative to deal with some of the most difficult problems in Africa.
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Conservative Party leader David Cameron arrived in Rwanda Tuesday amidst accusations that he is negelecting his home constituency, which has been severely affected by flooding.
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Freshly recovered from a heart operation, Prime Minister Tony Blair was scheduled to fly to Ethiopia on a personal aid mission which he hopes will also provide a restorative boost to his own place in history.
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The United States on Thursday announced it had sent a team to assess humanitarian needs in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where government troops have been battling insurgents since June last year.
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By LES NEUHAUS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion - so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.
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Making his first campaign appearance in this state, Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday tackled a question that's still on the minds of many voters: Is he experienced enough to be president?
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Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is in Ethiopia to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa&#39;s problems into a global priority.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana  - Guyana appealed to the  international community on Thursday to send food, boats, power  generators and water pumps to help thousands of its inhabitants  forced from their homes by the worst floods in more than a  century.
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The State Department on Friday advised Americans that heightened security will be in place for celebrations in Ethiopia next month of the 60th anniversary of Bob Marley's birth.