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Australian aid cuts will cost lives: charities
May 08, 2012 22:31 EDT
Australia's plan to scale back foreign aid growth to help produce a budget surplus was criticised by charity groups Wednesday, with World Vision saying it could cost up to 200,000 lives.
Niger is worst place to be a mother: study
May 08, 2012 12:08 EDT
The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother, largely due to hunger, according to an annual report out Tuesday by Save the Children.
Millions face hunger in Sahel amid aid shortage
Apr 23, 2012 10:19 EDT
Aid agencies said Monday they are facing a multi-million dollar funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel where people are resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive.
New Zealand journalist 'arrested in Zimbabwe'
Apr 20, 2012 08:29 EDT
Zimbabwean police have arrested a journalist from New Zealand for reporting from the southern African country without accreditation, state media reported Friday.
New Zealand journalist arrested in Zimbabwe: report
Apr 20, 2012 04:54 EDT
Zimbabwean police have arrested a journalist from New Zealand for reporting from the southern African country without accreditation, state media reported Friday.
Murky Pakistan war sparks refugee exodus
Apr 07, 2012 04:44 EDT
Banmaroo stands in the dust, tears rolling down her cheeks as she recalls how her husband was killed in Pakistan's latest battle zone on the Afghan border.
US offers $120 million for Sahel hunger
Mar 29, 2012 18:58 EDT
The United States will give $120 million in emergency aid for western Africa's drought-hit Sahel region in hope of preventing severe hunger, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.
Somali rebels ban aid group Save the Children
Mar 13, 2012 14:06 EDT
Somalia's Shebab rebels Tuesday banned the aid group Save the Children from operating in regions under their control, levelling a string of accusations against the organisation.
US pledges long-term help for Horn hunger
Mar 08, 2012 14:20 EST
US officials pledged Thursday to work for permanent solutions to ease hunger in the Horn of Africa, warning that Somalia remained a major crisis even though its famine is officially over.
Syphilis tests could save a million babies: experts
Mar 01, 2012 13:18 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The lives of almost a million newborn babies could be saved every year if simple, cheap and rapid tests for syphilis were offered to pregnant women in poorer countries, global health experts said on Thursday.
Syphilis tests could save a million babies: experts
Feb 29, 2012 19:02 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The lives of almost a million newborn babies could be saved every year if simple, cheap and rapid tests for syphilis were offered to pregnant women in poorer countries, global health experts said on Thursday.
Gunmen kidnap Pakistani staff of S.Korean hospital
Feb 29, 2012 03:21 EST
Gunmen abducted two Pakistani Christians working for a South Korean-run hospital in a violent slum area of the country's largest city Karachi, police said.
Harsh Afghan winter kills 40 children
Feb 19, 2012 11:19 EST
A harsh winter has killed almost 40 children in Afghanistan in the past month, most of them in refugee camps in Kabul with aid groups warning Sunday of more deaths as temperatures keep falling.
Millions of flood victims still at risk in Pakistan
Feb 16, 2012 08:38 EST
A feeble international response to Pakistan's second major flooding crisis in two years has left millions of people at serious risk of malnutrition and disease, aid groups warned Thursday.
Millions of flood victims still at risk in Pakistan
Feb 15, 2012 21:48 EST
A feeble international response to Pakistan's second major flooding crisis in two years has left millions of people at serious risk of malnutrition and disease, aid groups warned Thursday.
Malnutrition 'puts 450m children at risk of stunting'
Feb 15, 2012 09:53 EST
About 450 million children will be physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years unless the world takes action to tackle malnutrition, a report from Save the Children warned Wednesday.
How climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid
Jan 26, 2012 06:08 EST
LONDON, Jan 26 (AlertNet) - Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate to a city where the jobs are, only to end up living in a slum regularly submerged by floods.
Slow response to East Africa famine 'cost lives'
Jan 18, 2012 04:53 EST
Thousands of people in East Africa died needlessly because the international community failed to respond to early warnings of famine, Oxfam and Save the Children warned Wednesday.
Philippines digs graves after typhoon kills hundreds
Dec 19, 2011 11:48 EST
ILIGAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Disaster agencies on Monday delivered body bags, food, water, and medicine to crowded evacuation centers in the southern Philippines as officials ordered the digging of graves to prevent disease after hundreds died from flash floods.
Funding crunch imperils progress on AIDS
Nov 30, 2011 13:05 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday.
