Don't forget other crises - Oxfam
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The Asian disaster must not "suck money" from other crises, says Oxfam.
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Tuesday a major humanitarian crisis could be developing in Ethiopia&#39;s rebel Ogaden region, where the organisation was repeatedly denied access in recent weeks.
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Relief agencies struggled to rush aid to more than 3 million people in Africa and Asia who lack food and medicine as the number of fatalities from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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same mistake in the country&#39;s east, where tensions are rising along the border with Eritrea. crises. The United States has called the violence in Darfur genocide.
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The UK should stump up an extra Â£1.2bn to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change, Oxfam said today.
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Oxfam relief is loaded onto a plane headed to the worst hit areas of Thailand. AS THE UK slept off the excesses of a crisply-cold Christmas, the normally quiet offices of the British Geological Survey in ...
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Protests are taking place in 30 countries to bring attention to the growing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Fresh rainfalls and slow relief have deepened the humanitarian crisis caused by record floods in Africa which have affected more than 1.5 million people and killed at least 300, aid agencies warned Tuesday.
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Now is the time to act on a constellation of problems impacting Africa. That is the view of the UK government's recently established Commission for Africa, which yesterday talked to specialists working in the ...
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  While violence remains a major concern, the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region is easing and large-scale deaths from malnutrition and disease are likely to be averted as international assistance pours in, UN ...
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As pledges for the tsunami crisis neared $4 billion, the UN humanitarian chief said yesterday that he feared tens of thousands of people dying of starvation elsewhere in the world would be forgotten. ''I am afraid that we may see now not the same degree of generosity in other parts of the world, and that would be the ultimate irony ...
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Hundreds of thousands of people are desperately looking for food and shelter across many African countries, as record floods and fresh downpours continue to hamper relief efforts on Sunday.
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Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
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European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday must increase diplomatic pressure for a ceasefire in Chad to prevent a major humanitarian crisis, British charity Oxfam said.
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Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain's turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations.