AS IT IS 2013-06-28 What's the Best Way to Give Food Aid? From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome to the show. Im Caty Weaver. The United States is the leading supplier of food aidaround the world, at a cost of about 1.5 billion dollarsy...
Congress Debates Limiting US Farmers' Role in Food Aid When starvation looms, speed is critical. But while the U.S. provides more emergency food aid than any other country, speed is not what it does best. Andrew Natsios witnessed this shortcoming fir...
Budget Cuts Hit US Foreign Aid Programs Mandatory federal cuts Like other federal agencies, the U. S. Agency for International Development has to cut its budget as a result of sequestration. The four-percent USAID must cut will reduce its foreign ass...
Aid to Syrian Opposition Falls Short of Expectations The continuing death and destruction in Syria have intensified international concern, but have not changed the strategic situation: The West and key Arab countries don't want to do anything that wo...
UN: Millions in Somalia Need Aid The U.N. says millions of people in Somalia still require humanitarian aid, despite advances against al-Shabab militants. A new funding appeal has been launched to address the countrys immediate needs and build resili...
Many Congolese Still Need Emergency Aid Humanitarian agencies are still trying to reach thousands of people in the eastern DRC who were displaced by the recent military offensive by M23 rebels. Many of the displaced fear they may have to flee violenc...
Agriculture Report - Aid Workers Seek to Build 'Resilience' in Sahel 农业报道 - 援助组织试图培养萨赫勒地区人们的韧劲 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农...
Britain Criticized For Rwanda Aid Donation Rebels from the March 23 Movement, known as the M23, in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Tutsi militia continues to fight DRC government troops - and staged a deadly attack on Uni...
Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx Early afternoon at the Bab al-Salama Camp on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. Aid workers are distributing food to people waiting to become refugees in Turkey. The Turkish government is al...
Steve Baragona Experts have told the U.S. Senate that AIDS and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa are making each other worse. The testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee comes as the World Health...