By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 February 2008 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $19 million to help nearly one million people in Iraq who are largely overlooked by social welfare and aid programs. From Ge...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 31 December 2007 Hundreds of thousands of followers of the Mouride religion have flocked to the holy city of Touba, Senegal, to mourn the death of their spiritual leader Serigne Saliou Mback. The 92-year-old Caliph of the Mouri...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 December 2007 Five weeks after a killer cyclone hit Bangladesh, more than one million people live without adequate shelter. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the cyclone devastated coastal villages and killed...
By Zulima Palacio Atlanta, Georgia 20 December 2007 The Christmas season is celebrated in communities throughout the United States. Producer Zulima Palacio recently visited Stone Mountain Park outside Atlanta in the southeast state of Georgia to take...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 11 December 2007 The United Nations has issued an appeal for $406 million in 2008 to ease the humanitarian crisis is Somalia. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the United Nations says years of chaos coupled with recent fig...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 November 2007 The United Nations has sharply reduced its estimate of the size of the world's AIDS epidemic in a new report published Monday. The revised figures particularly reflect new numbers for the virus in India - but als...
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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 12 October 2007 The United Nations says that more than 850 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. Poverty, disease and conflict have always threatened food security. But other causes of hunger have emer...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 October 2007 The World Health Organization says more than three-quarters of a million people in 19 countries, most in Africa, will receive life-saving anti-tuberculosis drugs over the next year and a half. It says UNITAID, a...
By Larry London Washington 01 October 2007 One of the most recent musical success stories is the comeback of the band Nickelback. In 2001, they achieved major success with their album, Silver Side Up , with 10 million copies sold worldwide. In 2005,...