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AFGHANISTAN: USAID rejects NGO concerns over aid militarization
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
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Should the humanitarian assistance be in effect, or perceived to be, serving purposes other than the wellbeing of the population, then the natural reaction of the opposition is to counter that strategy by targeting the assistance, the aid providers and...
Tags: USAID, Oxfam International, Wael Haj-Ibrahim, aid workers, Afghanistan, told irin, IRIN, William Frej, Kabul, International relations, Oxfam, Politics, United States Agency for International Development, Civil Affairs, Development, Humanitarian aid, Aid, War Conflict
Spain Papers Review - Wednesday December 2 2009
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 6 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan and the missing Spanish aid workers in Mauritania dominate the papers in Spain today El País headlines Spain will be sending 200 more soldiers to Afghanistan as part of the new plan from Barack Obama. The paper notes that the new United States...
Tags: Spain Papers Review, tells used, Real Madrid, Mauritania, El País, papers says, aid workers, las razón, papers notes, La Razón, Nouakchott
Spaniards 'taken hostage' in Mauritania
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 7 days ago
Credibility Ambassador Alonso Dezcallar y Mazarredo refused to comment on reports that the hostages had been found close to Nouakchott on Tuesday. African branch of Osama bin Laden's Islamist network. "We cannot confirm nor deny reports that the hostages have been...
Tags: Mauritania, Spain, aid workers, Nouakchott, Politics, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, West Africa, Foreign relations of Mauritania, Mariano Rajoy, Mauritania Airways, Islamic terrorism, Algerian Civil War, War Conflict
Mauritania: Spanish aid workers 'kidnapped by Al-Qaeda'
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 8 days ago
Credibility Three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania by militants linked to Al-Qaeda, Spain's interior minister said on Monday. "It all suggests that it is a kidnapping. If so, and I believe it is, it all appears to be a kidnapping by Al-Qaeda...
Tags: aid workers, Mauritania, Nouadhibou, workers kidnapping, Nouakchott, deliver supplies, capital nouakchott, armed men, Spain, humanitarian aid, War Conflict, Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Civil War, West Africa, Dakhlet Nouadhibou Region, Islamic terrorism, Outline of Mauritania, Al-Qaeda, Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, Coupe du Prￃﾩsident de la Rￃﾩpublique, Communes of Mauritania, Edwin Dyer, CNN, Alfredo Pￃﾩrez Rubalcaba, Cantabrian people, Nouakchott suicide bombing, killing of French tourists in Mauritania, Subdivisions of Mauritania, Irregular military, Islam in Algeria, ETA
Darfur gunmen say targeting France not aid workers
Khartoum :: Sudan | 12 days ago
Credibility An armed group from the restive region of Darfur said today they are targeting French aid workers to force French government to change its policy. A Darfur based gunmen kidnapped two French aid workers on Sunday evening in the northeast of the Central...
Tags: Darfur JEM, Darfur Justice, child soldiers, aid workers, Sudan, Khartoum, Politics, War Conflict, Darfur conflict, Janjaweed, Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, North Africa, East Africa, Darfur, Islamic history, Omar al-Bashir, attack on Omdurman and Khartoum, Military use of children, Juba talks, Geneina, Second Chadian Civil War, Lord's Resistance Army, Human trafficking in Sudan, Politics of Sudan, Social Issues, International Committee of the Red Cross, Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration, Justice and Equality Movement, African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
Kids smuggle food on war border
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 15 days ago
Credibility She is holding an empty flour sack by her side that she plans on filling with firewood. Her eyes are soft and kind, but they bear the signs of exhaustion...Instead of going to school, the eight-year-old walks an hour to work. All day long Sabar takes...
Tags: Sabar Mina, Pakistani, Afghanistan, aid workers, Pakistan, Karāchi, War in Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism, Islamism, Taliban
South Korea steps up effort in Afghanistan
Seoul :: South Korea | about 1 month ago
Credibility South Korea announced Friday it will send hundreds of troops and police to Afghanistan to protect an expanded force of civilian aid workers. Plans are to operate an independent Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and increase the number of reconstruction...
Tags: North Korean Foreign Ministry, South Korean, Afghanistan, Provincial Reconstruction Team, aid workers, civilian aid, U.S, Pyongyang
Kidnapped aid workers free
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 month ago
Credibility We do not know where we are," said the Canadian hostage, who identified herself as Stephanie Joidon, over a satellite phone. Armed men had kidnapped the pair, who work for French aid group Aide Medicale Internationale, from their office in South Darfur's...
Tags: South Darfur, Darfuri, Sudan, Irish Times, aid workers
Somali gang releases French aid workers
Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 months ago
Credibility A French aid group said Saturday Somali gunmen had released three of its workers abducted in Kenya this summer. Action Against Hunger told the BBC the trio were being flown back to Kenya and would soon be reunited with their families.
Tags: aid workers, Somalia, Kenya, Nairobi, Somali Gunmen Release, foreign aid, gunmen released, Luq
UN day commemorates humanitarians
Dubai :: United Arab Emirates | 3 months ago
Credibility That is the abiding mission of the humanitarian community," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "This is also a day on which we pay tribute to the legions of heroic humanitarian personnel...But they share a conviction that one person's suffering is...
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