[...] its single runway was insufficient to handle the high volume of aid-bearing aircraft attempting to fly into Port-au-Prince, which far exceeded the peak of 160 received per day. Since growing numbers of humanitarian flights were forced to be turned away, the U.S. military came under fire for its management of the airport, as foreign governments, particularly France, asserted that preference was being given to US.-based humanitarian flights.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: AIUSA media office, +1-202-544-0200 ext 232
SUPPORT FOR AID GROUPS IS CRITICAL NOW With the economy in recession, it's difficult to think about people suffering in our own community, and even harder to reflect on the plight of people half a world away. Yet, no matter how much our stocks and savings have been depleted, chances are we still have more than most people in the world. In Darfur, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir just kicked out the international aid community -- the last link to hope for a million people.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Josh Berkman of American Jewish World Service, +1-212- 792-2893, jberkman@ajws.org
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - In just six months, one of the world's largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. No one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in. Aid workers and foreign diplomats increasingly fear that Manik Farm, a facility they helped build, is actually a military-run internment camp where 210,000 ethnic Tamil civilians displaced by the civil war are being held indefinitely. Government memos and U.N. documents obtained by The Associated Press, as well as interviews with more than two dozen aid workers, U.N. officials, diplomats and rights advocates, detail how the international community poured tens of millions of dollars into these camps, despite their concerns.
Yet the question remains whether the international aid community has learned from past development initiatives in the region that repeatedly have failed. [...] practitioners and donors become more efficient at improving the conditions on the ground, it is likely that last month's relief initiative will regrettably turn out to be just as futile as past endeavors.
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's official media said today that 10,000 people were killed by a powerful cyclone in just one town, confirming fears of a spiraling death toll from the storm's 12-foot tidal surges and high winds that swept away bamboo homes in low- lying coastal regions. The ruling junta, an authoritarian regime which cut the nation off from the international community for decades, appealed for foreign aid to help in the recovery from Saturday's disaster, the country's deadliest storm on record.
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Devex, the world's leading online community for more than half a million aid workers and international development professionals, announced today the foundations, NGOs, and aid agencies selected as the Devex Top 40 Development Innovators. The list of innovators was unveiled on the Devex Facebook page at www.facebook.com/devex. The Devex Top 40 Development Innovators were chosen based on a poll of more than 2,000 aid workers who participated in a Devex survey last month.
DOLO, Somalia - Somalia's famine will be five times worse by Christmas unless the international community increases its food aid, Australia's foreign minister said Sunday during a visit to Somalia, even as the international Red Cross distributed 400 tons of food into hard-to-reach areas of southern Somalia. Kevin Rudd was in Somalia's famine-struck area of Dolo to appeal to the world to help avoid a catastrophe. During his visit hundreds of women with small children in tow massed around a World Food Program sign-up table in hopes of qualifying for food aid. Rudd talked with internal refugees who have had little to eat in recent days.
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