Exclusive: US to provide nearly $55 million in humanitarian aid for Burkina Faso

The United States will provide nearly $55 million to address a dire humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso, U.S. aid chief Samantha Power will announce on Thursday, according to a statement seen by ... 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

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After 14 years of Conservative government, Britain’s voters appear hungry for change. And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems unable to persuade them otherwise. By Mark Landler Russian military ... Read More

1st Ukrainian city falls since US became deadlocked in sending more military aid

It is also the first Ukrainian city to fall since the U.S. became deadlocked in sending more military aid ... News' Ukraine team appeared to show soldiers raising the Russian flag over one ... Read More

The Latest | Blinken says Israel will open a major aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza

Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday. Israel's war against Hamas has flattened huge swaths of ... 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

US to spend $1 billion on food aid abroad amid global hunger crisis

April 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will distribute $1 ... World Food Programme. Global hunger is getting worse, with 745 ... Read More

US approved sending more bombs to Israel the day strikes killed 7 aid workers

The US government approved thousands more bombs to be sent Israel on the same day an Israeli airstrike killed one of its citizens. The team of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers ... Read More

Disaster Psychology

Living through a disaster ... world—it’s likely that psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals will become an increasingly important component of disaster response. Read More

US awaits Netanyahu’s response after Biden’s ultimatum

(CNN) — President Joe Biden put his own and America’s credibility on the line in trying to change how Israel is fighting in Gaza. Now, he waits to see how far Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ... Read More

Biden’s response to Netanyahu means the US-Israeli relationship has changed for good

The deaths of seven aid workers delivering food to hungry civilians for the nonprofit World ... that the US is still in a wait-and-see mode when it comes to evaluating Israel’s response to ... Read More

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