Tag: Humanitarian assistance

UN chief: World faces a `hurricane of humanitarian crises’

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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief warned Friday that a “hurricane of humanitarian crises” around the world has left civilians in conflict areas...

Ethiopia accuses aid groups of ‘arming’ Tigray fighters

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government has accused humanitarian aid groups working in its war-hit Tigray region of “arming” Tigray fighters and threatened to halt...

Ethiopia says all aid flights to Tigray must be searched

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday said all flights carrying aid to its embattled Tigray region must go through its capital for inspection...

Ethiopia denies it’s trying to ‘suffocate’ Tigray region

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday rejected accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and...

Ethiopia denies it’s trying to ‘suffocate’ Tigray region

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s government on Friday rejected accusations that it’s trying to “suffocate the Tigray people” by denying them urgently needed food and...

Russia rejects renewing aid from Iraq to Syria’s northeast

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UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday called a proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq to Syria’s northeast for delivering humanitarian...

Bridge key to delivering aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray destroyed

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A bridge that’s crucial to delivering desperately needed food to much of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has been destroyed, an aid group...

Trapped in Ethiopia’s Tigray, people ‘falling like leaves’

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The plea arrived from a remote area that had so far produced only rumors and residents fleeing for their lives. Help...

Russia in showdown with UN and West over aid to Syria

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UNITED NATIONS — Russia previewed a showdown with the United Nations, United States and Western nations Wednesday over the delivery of humanitarian aid to...

EU chief suggests shift in migration aid for Turkey

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BERLIN — The head of the European Union's executive Commission said Tuesday she will propose shifting the bloc's financial aid for migrants in Turkey...