NAIROBI (Reuters) - For the first time in nine months of war in Ethiopia s Tigray region, aid workers will this week run out of food to deliver to millions of people who are going hungry there, the head of the U.S. government s humanitarian agency said. USAID and its partners as well as other humanitarian organizations have depleted their stores of food items warehoused in Tigray, Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), said in a statement late on Thursday. War broke out in November between Ethiopian troops and the Tigray People s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the region. The conflict has been marked by allegations of war crimes, killed thousands and sparked a humanitarian crisis in one of the world s poorest regions. The U.N. warned last month that more than 100,000 children in Tigray could die of hunger. On Thursday, the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted aid access in Tigray. Peo
By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamored for food, shelter and medical care on Tuesday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding. Quake damage to several major hospitals hampered humanitarian efforts, and doctors in makeshift tents outside battled to save the lives of the many injured, including young children and the elderly. But they could not help them all. There weren t enough doctors and now she s dead, said Lanette Nuel, sitting listlessly next to her daughter s body outside the main hospital of Les Cayes, one of the towns worst hit by both the tremor and the storm s heavy rains and winds. The 26-year-old deceased woman, herself a mother of two, had been crushed by debris during the magnitude 7.2 quake. Now she lay under a white sheet on the floor. We came in yesterday afternoon, she died
By Jill Gralow SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bilal El-Hayek and friend and volunteer Amer Yassine carry boxes of packaged meals onto the front porch of Darlene, a single mother of seven including three she is fostering. From a distance, El-Hayek, a councillor for the city of Canterbury Bankstown in Sydney s southwest, exchanges a few words with Darlene to check on how she is coping under lockdown. We re just trying to help out as much as possible. It s been a tough, tough situation, said El-Hayek, 34, of his effort to deliver food to vulnerable people in his community during the COVID-19 outbreak. People lost their jobs. People lost their businesses. People have high mortgages. It s pretty devastating out there. Although Australia has avoided the high coronavirus numbers of many other countries, the rapid spread of the Delta variant and a slow vaccine rollout have left the country vulnerable. About three-quarters of New South Wales state s nearly 5,000 active cases come from nine Sydney local gov
KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on captured Afghan territory on Tuesday, now controlling 65% of the country, as U.S. President Joe Biden urged the nation s leaders to fight for their homeland. Pul-e-Khumri, capital of the northern province of Baghlan, fell to the Taliban on Tuesday evening, according to residents who reported Afghan security forces retreating toward the Kelagi desert, home to a large Afghan army base. Pul-e-Khumri became the seventh regional capital to come under the control of the Islamist militants in about a week. https://graphics.reuters.com/AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT/FLASHPOINTS/lbpgnrazjvq/index.html Afghan leaders have to come together, Biden told reporters at the White House, saying the Afghan troops outnumber the Taliban and must want to fight. They ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation. The U.S. president said he does not regret his decision to withdraw, noting that Washington has spent more than $1 trillion over
Turkey says Iraq s Makhmour camp must be cleared of Kurdish militants
This content was published on June 9, 2021 - 20:16
June 9, 2021 - 20:16
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that northern Iraq s Makhmour camp, where Turkish air strikes killed at least three people at the weekend, must be cleared of Kurdish militants.
President Tayyip Erdogan has said that Makhmour, a camp 180 km south of the Turkish border which has hosted thousands of Turkish refugees for more than two decades, was an incubator for militants and must be tackled. On Sunday, Erdogan said the strikes on Makhmour had killed a senior Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) official.