List of Foreign Aid articles
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GettyImages-488737310 Yemen Doesn’t Need the Obama Administration’s ‘Deep Concern’
It needs help ending the war that has led to a humanitarian crisis.
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US Press Secretary Josh Earnest speaks at the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) Obama Apologizes to Doctors Without Borders But Is Silent on Independent Probe
President Barack Obama apologized to the president of Doctors Without Borders for the deadly U.S. attack on a hospital in Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people. But the Obama administration would not say whether it would support the group’s efforts to launch an independent investigation of the incident at a never-before used international commission in Switzerland.
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LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - JUNE 21: A boat loaded with illegal immigrant is seen on June 21, 2005 in Lampedusa, Italy. Tens of thousands of immigrants land on the Italian coast each year, most of them heading from north Africa on ramshackle boats.In the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, Lampedusa Island is one of the main gateways for illegal immigration from Africa into Europe. According to a report by Amnesty International, Illegal immigrants who land in Italy consistently allege they have been abused, holding centres are overcrowded and no legal assistance is offered. Italian authorities refused to give access to the centres to enable further investigations by Amnesty. The Amnesty International report says 15,647 people were held in the centres in 2004: a 9 per-cent increase on the previous year. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images) The EU Is Using Warships to Target Human Smugglers. What Could Go Wrong?
The EU is deploying warships to stop human smugglers, but will the operation's benefits outweigh its risks?
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: Army Gen. John Campbell, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee February 12, 2015 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony on the current situation in Afghanistan during the hearing. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) U.S. Offers New Account of Air Raid on Hospital
Commander says Afghan forces, not U.S. troops, requested air raid that hit clinic in Kunduz. Doctors Without Borders accuses U.S. of trying to shift the blame
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GettyImages-471470048_960 The Fragility Within
As the problems that once divided the world into First, Second, and Third are held more and more in common, is it time for the global development community to overhaul its approach?
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GettyImages-146517309_9-22 The Solipsism of Self-Isolation
Decades of marginalizing countries we don't see eye to eye with has gotten the United States nowhere. It's time to engage.
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GettyImages-462345144saudiscrop Exclusive: As Air War Intensifies, Saudi Arabia Launches Charm Offensive Before U.N. Summit
With Yemeni civilian deaths mounting, the Saudi government is pulling out all the stops to head off an independent human rights inquiry.
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GettyImages-451960246yarmoukcrop The Saints and Smugglers of Syria’s Civil War
How expatriates ran a covert campaign to funnel millions of dollars worth of aid into one of Syria’s worst-hit towns -- right under Assad’s nose.
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GettyImages-488742694_960 Stopping Europe’s Refugee Crisis at the Source
To halt the flow of people fleeing war, poverty, and oppression, the international community needs to redouble aid efforts where they're needed most.
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GettyImages-454505136_960 A Foreign Assistance Manifesto for the Next President
Whoever wins in 2016, America's soft power strategy is in need of an update.
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South Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) national army soldiers gather after capturing the town of Bentiu, on January 12, 2014. Mediators pushed hard for a ceasefire in South Sudan as fighting raged today for the last rebel-held town and the full extent of the destruction wrought began to emerge. With up to 10,000 dead and nearly half a million displaced, the full scale of the destruction inflicted on the world's youngest nation is just starting to become clear. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Endless Nightmare
The international community is finally grappling with the bloody horrors of South Sudan. But it might be too little, too late for its most desperate and displaced.
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Workers unload bags of food from a UN's World Food Programme ship docked in Yemen's devastated port city of Aden on July 21, 2015 as it brings in desperately needed relief supplies after four months of fierce fighting between rebels and loyalist fighters. The humanitarian aid arrived as forces loyal to exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi pressed on with operations to tighten their control over the southern city. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Aid Group: Yemen Fighting Pushes Tens of Thousands of Citizens Closer to Starvation
The U.N. makes an emotional plea for humanitarian aid as the cease-fire ebbs between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed government in Yemen.
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epa04854605 A visitor poses for a photograph in front of the last Cuban flag that was lowered from the Cuban Embassy in Washington on 03 January 1961 when relations between the United States and Cuba were severed, in their new embassy in Washington, DC, USA, 20 July 2015. The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations on 20 July after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War. EPA/ANDREW HARNIK / POOL How to Build a Relationship With Havana
A strong partnership with Cuba is in America’s interest. Here are some ideas to forge bilateral ties.
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MAJDAL ANJAR, LEBANON - NOVEMBER 12: A Syrian girl sits on bags of firewood in a makeshift camp for Syrian refugees only miles from the border with Syria in the Bekaa Valley on November 12, 2013 in Majdal Anjar, Lebanon. As the war in neighboring Syria drags on for a third year, Lebanon, a country of only 4 million people, is now home to the largest number of Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict. The situation is beginning to put huge social and political strains on Lebanon as there is currently no end in sight to the war in Syria. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Syria’s Humanitarians Are Going Broke
Aid organizations are billions of dollars short of their funding requirements, and even the most effective groups are struggling to sustain interest in what seems to be a never-ending crisis.
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northk Should We Be Worried About North Korea’s Drought?
Perhaps. But we shouldn't take Pyongyang's word for it.
