The United Nations is appealing for $7.7 billion to provide emergency aid during 2012 to 51 million people across 16 countries. Eleven of the 16 nations are in Africa. The beneficiary countries include Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Niger, the occupied Palestinian territory, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, [...]
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December 15, 2011
December 14, 2011
US freezes $700m in Pakistan aid
13 December 2011 Last updated at 17:00 GMT Homemade bombs made in Pakistan are used in Afghanistan, it is alleged A US Congressional panel has frozen $700m (£450m) in aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is tackling the spread of homemade bombs in the region. The move – the second such freeze this [...]
December 4, 2011
Nigeria’s bill to outlaw gay marriage threatens HIV/Aids cash
A bill to outlaw gay marriage in Nigeria could jeopardise millions of dollars of western aid given to help stop the spread of HIV and Aids in Africa‘s most populous nation. Nigeria has the continent’s second highest number of people living with the disease, says the United Nations. More than three million people are infected [...]
December 3, 2011
Three NATO troops killed by bomb in Afghanistan
December 3, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Three NATO troops killed by bomb in Afghanistan 03 Dec 2011 Three troops from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, officials said. ISAF did not say which country the dead troops were from or give further details of [...]
November 30, 2011
Number of N.J. residents receiving food stamps doubled in last four years
November 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Number of N.J. residents receiving food stamps doubled in last four years 27 Nov 2011 The number of New Jersey residents receiving food stamps has doubled in the past four years and is at its highest level in more than a decade, state and federal data show. As of [...]
November 19, 2011
Kenya Military Asks Aid Agencies to Return to Somalia’s South
The Kenyan military says it has secured more areas of southern Somalia and is urging aid agencies to come back to the country to help those in need. Kenya’s Foreign Ministry says it is also trying to win international approval for African Union forces to join the fight. The Kenyan military says it has driven [...]
November 15, 2011
Afghan bomb blast kills US-led soldier
November 15, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghan bomb blast kills US-led soldier 14 Nov 2011 Another US-led soldier has been killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announces. ISAF said in a statement that the foreign soldier “died following a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday,” Reuters [...]
November 13, 2011
Kenya Asks Arab World for Support in Somalia
Kenya is calling for more support from the Arab world to help secure Somalia as Kenyan troops continue their pursuit of al-Shabab militants in the country. And the Kenyan military says it has shifted its tactics in the fight to help make way for humanitarian assistance. Kenyan Foreign Ministry Assistant Director Lindsay Kiptiness told reporters [...]
November 8, 2011
Berlusconi Increasingly Pressured to Resign
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under increasing pressure to resign, as allies leave his majority coalition ahead of Tuesday’s key parliamentary vote. With Berlusconi’s majority in question, officials wonder if he can pass financial legislation key to securing European monetary assistance. Rumors that Berlusconi would resign sent Italian markets upwards Monday. The prime minister [...]
November 5, 2011
US removes Afghanistan commander Peter Fuller for criticising Karzai
Major General Peter Fuller, a top US commander in Afghanistan, has been relieved of his duties after criticising the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), relieved Fuller as deputy commander of the effort to train Afghan security forces after Fuller told Politico that Afghan leaders were [...]
October 31, 2011
Western Companies See Prospects for Business in Libya
October 30, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Western Companies See Prospects for Business in Libya 29 Oct 2011 The guns in Libya have barely quieted, and NATO’s military assistance to the rebellion coup that toppled Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi will not end officially until Monday. But a new invasion force is already plotting its own landing on [...]
October 29, 2011
Afghan soldier kills 2 US-led troops
October 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghan soldier kills 2 US-led troops 29 Oct 2021 The US-led NATO force says a man dressed in Afghan army uniform has shot dead two foreign troops in southern Afghanistan. “Two International Security Assistance Force service members were killed today in southern Afghanistan when an individual wearing an Afghan [...]
October 29, 2011
Kabul suicide bomb claims 17 victims
A suicide bomb attack on an international military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 17 people, including 13 US troops. All 13 members of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) killed in the attack near Darulaman Palace, on the south-west outskirts of Kabul, were American soldiers, according to a US [...]
October 25, 2011
Turkey’s Rescue Teams Pressed to Find Quake Survivors
Time is running out for people believed to be still trapped in collapsed buildings after Sunday’s deadly earthquake in southeastern Turkey. The number of dead is more than 400, but that is expected to rise after a second night of freezing temperatures. More and more rescue teams are reaching the quake-stricken area in southeastern Turkey, [...]