(New York, 30 July 2008): United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes, today announced the allocation of $30 million to support agencies carrying out life-saving aid programmes in seven crisis countries in need of an injection of aid funding – Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iraq, [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Seven underfunded emergencies receive $30 million from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund
July 31, 2008
Somalia: Leaders decry killing, abduction of aid workers
NAIROBI, 31 July 2008 (IRIN) – Representatives of religious groups in Somalia have condemned the killing and abduction of humanitarian workers, saying the increase of such incidents was worrying.
“We are totally against the killing of aid workers and call upon all Somali people to embrace peace,” Sheikh Abdulkadir Somow, spokesman for Ahlu Suna Waljamaa, the [...]
July 30, 2008
Radovan Karadzic extradited to The Hague
BELGRADE, Serbia – Authorities extradited ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the Netherlands to face genocide charges before the U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday, hours after a violence-tinged protest by thousands of his supporters in downtown Belgrade.
U.N. spokesman Liam McDowall confirmed Karadzic was transferred to the U.N. detention center near The Hague, where he [...]
July 29, 2008
Transparent relief
Published: July 27 2008 18:17 | Last updated: July 27 2008 18:17
Never in the field of humanitarian relief has so much been given to so many with so little scrutiny. In recent years, the UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee has co-ordinated the fund-raising and disbursement of hundreds of millions of pounds in donations to handle the [...]
July 29, 2008
WHO aid worker seriously wounded by Somali gunmen
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Gunmen in Somalia shot and seriously wounded an humanitarian official working for the World Health Organization on Sunday, witnesses and officials said.
Osmail Moalim Ahmed was shot five times by assailants in the southern Somali town of Dinsor, in the latest attack against aid workers in the war-stricken country that is facing an [...]
July 29, 2008
Relief Worker Attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia Prompt Aid Cuts
By Chris Dolmetsch
July 29 (Bloomberg) — Attacks on aid workers are forcing humanitarian groups to curtail operations in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka and other war-torn countries, and relief agencies say they may have to make wider cuts.
Killings, kidnappings and violence against aid workers have more than doubled in the past five years, according to a [...]
July 29, 2008
‘Humanitarian crisis brewing at Greek migrant camp’
ATHENS, July 28: Greece is locking hundreds of migrants in an overcrowded centre on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos without proper sanitation and medical care in what French charity Medicins Sans Frontiers branded a “humanitarian crisis”.
The migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, are kept in rooms clogged with stagnant water and only allowed outside for [...]
July 29, 2008
Turkish Red Crescent Sends Humanitarian Aid To Iraq
CIZRE – Turkish aid organization Kizilay (Red Crescent) has sent humanitarian aid to Iraq following the explosion in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar.
The convoy carrying 60 tons of humanitarian aid arrived in Iraq on Sunday.
Seven Red Crescent personnel will hand over four truckloads of foodstuffs to Iraqi Red Crescent officials and the Turkish [...]
July 29, 2008
U.N. admits “significant” Myanmar exchange rate loss
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The top U.N. humanitarian affairs official said on Monday the world body had suffered “significant” losses while delivering cyclone aid to Myanmar due to a distorted official exchange rate.
Earlier this month, the United Nations issued an appeal for more than $300 million in extra aid to cope with the effects of [...]
July 28, 2008
Karadzic appeal not received by court
BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) — Court officials in Belgrade have not received an appeal preventing the extradition of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic.
A photo released by ‘Healthy Life’ magazine of Karadzic.
Court officials said Monday they had checked on urgent mail at post offices around the country, and had no reason to expect an appeal preventing [...]
