Aid
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I ran aid programmes for 25 years – getting my car fixed at an Islamabad market taught me why they don’t work | Mohammad Altaf Afridi
Donors mean well, but in Pakistan I saw funds poured into professional, unaccountable NGOs rather than authent…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Bangladesh, Dubai, Food security, Global development, Global health, Humanitarian response, India, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Somalia, South and Central Asia, Strait of Hormuz, Sudan, US-Israel war on Iran, World news, Yemen
Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of peop…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Food security, Global development, Global education, Global health, Human rights, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
In the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running | Ajas Khan
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or kee…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Children's health, Global development, Global health, Health, Infectious diseases, Malawi, Medical research, Pakistan, Polio, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Science, Social media, Society, South and Central Asia, US healthcare, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Influencers, misinformation and aid cuts: the fight to halt polio in Malawi
A huge vaccination drive has been launched after the country’s first outbreak in years of the paralysing disea…
- Aid, China, Egypt, Gaza, Global development, Israel, Middle East and North Africa, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, World news
Tents supplied to displaced Palestinians ‘inadequate for Gaza winter’
Thousands have blown down in storms and tents from China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia found to be not waterproofTho…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Global development, Humanitarian response, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
No soap, no tents, no food: Rohingya families fight for survival as aid plummets
In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world’s largest refugee camp depend on aid – and cuts mean new arr…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Earthquakes, Global development, Humanitarian response, Natural disasters, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘All I have left is this cloth’: Afghan quake survivors still waiting for help as aid cuts hit Taliban relief efforts
Villagers near epicentre of devastation in Kunar province say they have been left without adequate food, tents…
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Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns
NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to addressKabul c…
- Aid, Business, Climate crisis, Earthquakes, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Food security, Global development, Humanitarian response, Infrastructure, Mountains, Natural disasters, Nepal, Nepal earthquake 2015, Society, South and Central Asia, US foreign policy, USAid, World news
‘If I had to choose, I’d prefer the earthquake’: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc
Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events an…
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Broken and in the grip of civil war, can Myanmar rebuild after earthquake?
The junta’s poor emergency response leaves people fearing prolonged chaos, despite the relentless propaganda F…
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‘Wherever I looked I saw collapsed buildings’: Myanmar quake rescuers and medics struggle with size of task
After two days there are still not enough teams to find bodies or sufficient equipment to sift through the deb…
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‘No one came’: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victims
The military junta is calling for foreign aid but agencies and rescuers must navigate crumbling roads, an over…
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The Guardian view on Myanmar’s earthquake: aid must reach beyond the junta
International donors will need to work with the country’s fragmented local administrations as well as its mili…
- Africa, Aid, Bangladesh, Food poverty, Global development, Hunger, Kenya, Poverty, Refugees, Rohingya, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
World Food Programme halves food rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh
Decision made after attempts to raise more funds had been unsuccessful, agency tells authoritiesFood rations f…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Deforestation, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Water, World news
War, deforestation, flooding: in Afghanistan they are all linked
Always prone to natural disasters, the country’s plight has worsened, and not only because of the climate cris…