ADDIS ABABA, Aug 31 (Reuters) – USAID administrator Mark Green on Thursday said the United States would give an additional $91 million in emergency food assistance to help ward off starvation in areas in the south of the country teetering on the edge of famine. “I am announcing $91 million in additional humanitarian assistance for…
PANIC has set in after fears emerged that an 8.5 magnitude mega earthquake was set to strike India tomorrow. Disaster officials in Nagaland, a mountain state in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, called for calm after social media erupted with claims the monster quake could hit the region today or tomorrow. The area has previously been…
Harvey, the storm that swept into Texas as a Category 4 hurricane over the weekend, continued its relentless devastation in Houston on Sunday as catastrophic flooding forced evacuations and emergency responders asked the public to donate their boats to aid in high-water rescues. We’re updating here each day with photography of this event that the…
(CNN) Hurricane Harvey has weakened since it hit South Texas head-on late Friday but forecasters say water levels will still rise as torrential rain and blasting winds continue over the next days. The powerful eye wall of Harvey initially reached land by 11 p.m. ET between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas, with the then-Category…
Tropical Storm Harvey strengthened into a hurricane on Thursday as it headed to coastal Texas, where it was expected to bring life-threatening flooding, meteorologists said. The National Hurricane Center said Air Force Hurricane Hunter planes had spotted Tropical Storm Harvey strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico, with about 60-mile-per-hour winds more than 300 miles off…
A nationwide cholera epidemic in Sudan is expected to worsen during the current rainy season while authorities continue to deny the disease’s existence, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said. The Independent Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, who organized national demonstrations last year against poor hospital conditions, cited 22,000 cholera cases and 700 fatalities since…
Almost 73,000 children in Kenya are severely malnourished and at risk of dying from hunger because of a severe drought, a group of aid organizations said yesterday. The worst-affected area was the north-western region of Turkana South, where 12 per cent of children under 5 years of age suffer from severe acute malnutrition, according to…
Cholera The first round of an Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) campaign in four priority counties of South Sudan with active transmission of cholera, has successfully concluded despite security and access challenges in some areas, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) reports. The vaccination campaign started on the 29 July, 2017 to 4…
More than 16 million people have now been affected by seasonal flooding across a swathe of South Asia, say aid officials. The floods in Nepal, Bangladesh and India are thought to have killed about 500 people and are expected to worsen. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says it is…
Conflict and drought are threatening more than 20 million people in four countries with the prospect of famine, and the U.N. has called this food crisis the largest humanitarian crisis since the world body was formed more than 70 years ago. Additional resources and funding are needed “to pull people back from the brink of…