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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and a Somali partner have started giving daily meals to tens of thousands of desperately hungry people in the capital Mogadishu — the agency’s first ‘wet feeding’ in Somalia since the 1993 humanitarian emergency. The meals started to be distributed on 25 November and numbers are expanding daily. [...]

Wealthy Commonwealth nations such as the UK should help poorer member states improve vital infrastructure facilities as one of the best ways to lift them out of poverty, a new University of Nottingham report says. The report, ‘Trading on Commonwealth Ties’, produced by the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre (GEP), which is based at The [...]

An earthquake has just shaken the Greek island. Damage is widespread and all conventional, terrestrial communications have been destroyed. The rescue operations have only one means at their disposal that has not been affected by the quake a satellite which, from its altitude of 36 000 kilometres, can immediately link the locations involved in the [...]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced a plan to provide emergency food aid to 2.2 million people left hungry and homeless by this month’s cyclone in Bangladesh over the next six months, while applying the lessons of past floods and cyclones to prevent a surge in malnutrition in the aftermath of the disaster. [...]

A new, high-tech identification system developed in Japan will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify victims of mass disasters, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). “Families waiting to hear news regarding loved ones experience trauma while waiting for [...]

In response to the California wildfires, the State Street Foundation, Inc., the grantmaking arm of Boston-based financial services firm State Street Corporation, donated $500,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The State Street Foundation will also match up to $100,000 for donations made through its employee donation program to help provide essential services [...]

Prompted by the emergency in the Mexican state of Tabasco after the heavy floods over the past few days, Bayer has decided to help flood victims by donating medicines and insecticides. “The situation in Mexico is quite dramatic, so we want to help alleviate the distress of the people and in particular reduce the health [...]

The American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are providing $100,000 in emergency funding to the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for medical supplies and to facilitate an intensive health, sanitation and hygiene campaign to prevent the further spread of diarrhea in Djibouti. Since January 2007, limited access to safe drinking water and [...]

The American Red Cross is rushing aid to the people of Bangladesh affected by Cyclone Sidr with help from the U.S. Government’s Agency for International Development (USAID). So far the storm has killed more than 3,000 people and injured more than 5,000, with numbers likely to rise. The storm also wiped out vital crops and [...]

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bangladesh Air Force started using helicopters to air-drop WFP high energy biscuits to people stranded in inaccessible areas affected by last week’s cyclone. So far WFP has delivered biscuits to more than 650,000 people in the worst hit areas by land, air and boat. “WFP was [...]