Developing Countries Paying More For Food, WFP Executive Director Says
Despite drops in commodity market prices due to the global economic downturn, “[m]ost of the developing world is paying more for food,” and the price of food staples in developing countries has risen, Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), said Monday, the Associated Press reports. “The food crisis is not [...]
Ethiopia Requests Emergency Food Aid For 6.2M People
Ethiopian Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Mitiku Kassa on Thursday asked the international community for more than $121 million for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, the Associated Press reports (10/22).
Source:Ethiopia Requests Emergency Food Aid For 6.2M People
Also In Global Health News: Somali IDPs; MDR-TB Elimination; Chagas; Zimbabwe Disease, Hunger
Donors Failing To Provide Somali IDPs With Aid, U.N. Official Says At the conclusion of a week-long visit to the region, Walter Kalin, a top U.N. human-rights official “says the international community is failing in its duty to internally displaced persons [...]
Philippines Calls For Help To Address Disease Outbreak In Storms' Aftermath
The WHO on Thursday said the Philippines is requesting “international help to fight a deadly outbreak of an infectious disease following two devastating tropical storms,” Agence France-Presse reports. Parts of Manila, which are still flooded almost four weeks after Tropical Storm Ketsana hit, are experiencing an outbreak of the bacterial infection, leptospirosis (10/22).
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Campaign Against Emissions Picks Number
Activists did thousands of demonstrations centering on 350 parts per million, which some scientists call the upper limit for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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