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Global Hunger Crisis Deepens as Major Nations Skimp on Aid
Date: December 24, 2024
(Reuters) – It’s a simple but brutal equation: The number of people going hungry or otherwise struggling around the world is rising, while the amount of money the world’s wealthiest nations are contributing toward helping them is dropping. The U.N. also will end 2024 having raised about 46% of the $49.6 billion it sought for...
Rescuers Seek Survivors, Count Dead in Cyclone-Hit Mayotte
Date: December 16, 2024
By Dominique Vidalon and Abdou Moustoifa PARIS/MORONI (Reuters) -Emergency workers sought survivors on Monday and struggled to restore services in Mayotte, France’s poorest overseas territory, where hundreds or even thousands are feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century. Cyclone Chido devastated large parts of the archipelago...
UN Seeks $47 Billion in Aid as Donor Appetite Shrinks While Crises Multiply
Date: December 4, 2024
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations on Wednesday sought $47 billion in aid for 2025 to help around 190 million people fleeing conflict and battling starvation, at a time when this year’s appeal is not even half-funded and officials fear cuts from Western states including the top donor, the U.S. Facing what...
Soccer-Man United Keeper Onana Honoured by Fifpro for Charity Work in Cameroon
Date: November 26, 2024
By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana has won the FIFPRO Impact Award for humanitarian work, for the medical care his foundation provides to underprivileged communities in Cameroon and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Doctors have performed more than 1,200 surgical operations over the past three years in collaboration with...
In World’s Largest Refugee Camps, Rohingya Mobilise to Fight in Myanmar
Date: November 25, 2024
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Poppy McPherson COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – One day in July, Rafiq slipped out of the world’s largest refugee settlement in southern Bangladesh and crossed the border into Myanmar on a small boat. His destination: a ruinous civil war in a nation that he had fled in 2017. Thousands of Rohingya...
UK to Put Sudan Resolution to Vote by UN Security Council
Date: November 18, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will seek backing from other United Nations Security Council members on Monday for its demand that Sudan’s warring parties stop hostilities and allow deliveries of aid, the British foreign ministry said. With London holding the rotating presidency of the council, British foreign minister David Lammy is due to chair a vote...