Full Coverage: Emergency relief

31.01.2007 Children caught up in crises around the world are being forced to wait for life-saving emergency relief as the introduction of the UN’s emergency fund has created an extra hurdle for aid agencies striving to reach those most in need.

29.01.2007 Unless action is taken on Darfur at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa this week it will be too late, aid agencies warned.
+ AU in strongest test yet
+ Populations displaced by violence remain isolated and deprived of assistance

11.01.2007 Reports from East Africa show that local people seem concerned less about U.S. plans to kill three suspected terrorists and more about the loss of life and political fallout as a result of the United States' latest unilateral show of force.

10.01.2007 More than two years after the tsunami devastated countries around the Indian Ocean, reconstruction efforts in India are progressing well, according to a new report published jointly by ADB, the UN, and World Bank.