When USAID Administrator Raj Shah told congress yesterday that 70,000 children could needlessly die should Congress pass a restrictive global health budget, this is what he was talking about.
Apparently, rioters enraged by a reported Koran burning in Florida stormed a UN office in northern Afghanistan and killed eight UN workers. Some were beheaded. This is just awful.
The Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series provides a public forum for people from both the humanitarian and volunteer and technical communities to discuss ideas in this report and the future of disaster relief.
After a series of victories in key strategic towns across the Ivory Coast, forces loyal to internationally recognized presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara are poised to advance on Abidjan.