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The U.N. health agency says it has been granted access to send medical supplies to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region for the first time in six months, but fuel shortages are hampering distribution. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian who considers the region home, tweeted late Monday that the aid shipment that has…

U.N. officials say the seven-year war in Yemen has witnessed a dangerous escalation in the already dire situation in the Arab world's poorest nation

Drought in the Horn of Africa has killed more than 1.5 million livestock and drastically cut cereal production, “and we are most definitely now sitting on the brink of catastrophe,” a senior official for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday. Rein Paulsen, FAO’s director of emergencies and resilience who returned from the region…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The seven-year war in Yemen has witnessed a dangerous escalation, with January’s civilian casualties the highest in at least three years and 8 million Yemenis likely to lose all humanitarian aid next month without urgent new funds, U.N.

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Tesla Inc chief executive officer Elon Musk in November last year donated about 5 million shares of company stock worth roughly US$5.7 billion to an unidentified charity, a regulatory filing showed. The shares were donated from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29, the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission said. In late October, Musk, the world’s richest man, wrote on Twitter that he would sell US$6 billion in Tesla stock and give the money to the UN World Food Program (WFP) if the organization...

A new report by a non-governmental organization (NGO) Amnesty International (AI) sheds additional light on abuses by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front... 16.02.2022, Sputnik International

Amid the escalation of war on Yemen, 8 million Yemenis are likely to lose all humanitarian aid in March, with the absence of urgent new funds.

Download logo In response to the devastating drought, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing more than $39 million in additional humanitarian aid to meet the needs of people in Ethiopia, where more than 6.2 million drought affected people are estimated to need urgent food assistance in 2022. USAID is working to scale […]

The supplies include essential medical equipment, personal protective equipment, antibiotics, medicines for malaria and diabetes, treatment for severe acute malnutrition and medicines and supplies for reproductive health, WHO said.