US providing $1 million to assist Kenya flood response

(AP Photo/Brian Inganga, file) WASHINGTON (CN) — The United States is providing $1 million to support the humanitarian response ... future disasters,” Jennings said. “We call on other donors to join ... Read More

US deployed disaster response team in South Caucasus, Reuters reports

The US deployed a Disaster Assistance Response ... the team will assess the situation, identify priority needs to scale up assistance, and work with partners to provide urgently needed aid ... Read More

Government to boost disaster response with WFP aid

The government is beefing its disaster-response capacity this year as it is set to receive four new emergency vehicles from the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP). Martin Kristensson, project ... Read More

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An international charity suspended delivery of food to starving Palestinians on Tuesday, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central ... Read More

How Hurricane Disaster Response Teaches Us To Lead Effective Teams

I wondered if what I sensed was accurate, that tactics used in leading disaster response could lend insight into managing teams in a different context but also negotiating under pressure? Read More

How José Andrés and His Corps of Cooks Became Leaders in Disaster Aid

Long before the killings of seven workers in Gaza, World Central Kitchen pioneered a new way to deliver emergency ... of food aid, he said, such as the weight of a proper serving (one pound ... Read More

US sending Ukraine $300M in military aid in first package since December

WASHINGTON — The US will send Ukraine up to $300 million worth of much-needed military equipment, the first aid tranche to be ... tough spot this moment,” one of the officials said. Read More

Netanyahu is ‘giving Biden the finger’ and the US is sending more bombs, Senator says

He lashed out at the continued no-strings-attached policy of US arms supplies to ... International aid groups are now warning that a humanitarian disaster is taking place across the territory ... Read More

ED’s disaster management under scrutiny

Zimbabwe has a population of 16,32 million people. Last month Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera declared the drought a state of disaster calling for more than US$200 million in humanitarian ... Read More

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The United Nations and others said donors should resume support for UNRWA after a review found that Israel hadn’t backed up claims that many agency workers are members of terrorist groups. The ... Read More