Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the gutting of foreign aid and the dismantling of the main U.S. aid agency, has left the State Department, administration officials said on Monday. The abrupt departure comes in the…
Tag: Humanitarian Aid
Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says
At least five children and three adults with cholera died as they went in search of treatment in South Sudan after aid cuts by the Trump administration shuttered local health clinics during the country’s worst cholera outbreak in decades, the…
Dozens Die in Floods Hitting Congo’s Capital
Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the last few days, and destroyed hundreds of homes. The Ndjili River running through the megacity of 17 million people, one…
Guterres, at U.N., Denounces Israel’s Gaza Aid Blockade
The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, on Tuesday sharply criticized Israel’s renewed blockade of aid to Gaza as a violation of its obligations under international law and said it had opened “the floodgates of horror.” “Gaza is a killing field…
Why Earthquake Relief Is Slow to Reach Myanmar
Seven days after an earthquake devastated Turkey in 2023, French volunteers used a suitcase-size radar to locate a survivor under the rubble. It was one of many lives the device helped save in the aftermath of the disaster. The group…
They Fought to Save Lives in Myanmar. The Earthquake Claimed Theirs.
The five young doctors took up their mission together: defying Myanmar’s junta to treat the wounded through the coup and deadly military crackdown four years ago. Since then, each continued supporting the democratic cause. For Dr. Min, 32, that meant…
Israel Says Its Account of Rescue Workers Killed in Gaza Was Partly ‘Mistaken’
The Israeli military on Saturday acknowledged that the initial accounts from troops involved in the killing last month of 15 people in southern Gaza — who the United Nations said were paramedics and rescue workers — had been partially “mistaken.”…
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights on
A video recording, discovered on the cellphone of one of the paramedics who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in the Gazan city of Rafah in late March and obtained by The New York…
Some Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Were Shot Multiple Times, Officials Say
Days after the United Nations accused Israel of killing 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza, officials who recovered the bodies or carried out the autopsies said some of the rescue workers were shot multiple times before being buried in a mass…
Desperation Grows in Gaza as U.N. Shutters Bakeries
Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in Gaza. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source…