Indonesia is stepping forward with a bold humanitarian initiative, preparing the island of Galang to host a medical centre dedicated to treating approximately 2,000 wounded Palestinians from Gaza, demonstrating Southeast Asia’s growing role in global humanitarian relief. As the ongoing war in...
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In the besieged Gaza Strip, where over two million Palestinians face acute hunger, the reliance on airdropped humanitarian aid has proven both inadequate and perilous. Despite the presence of more than 22,000 aid trucks stationed just kilometers away, Israeli restrictions have permitted only 14%...
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doctor who was being treated at an Ebola clinic run by British military medical staff in Sierra Leone has died.
The death of Thomas Rogers at the clinic in Kerry Town on Friday brings the number of doctors in Sierra Leone who have been killed by the deadly virus to eight. He had worked at...
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Ebola has sickened more than 16,000 people of whom nearly 7,000 have died, according to figures released by the Link Removed Friday.
Sierra Leone is now bearing the brunt of the 8-month-old outbreak. In the other hard-hit countries, Liberia and Guinea, WHO says infection rates are stabilizing or...
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Britain’s flagship facility in Sierra Leone has treated just 28 patients so far, despite £230million investment to fight disease.
The Department for International Development has put £230million towards helping Sierra Leone fight Ebola, but only 28 people have been treated in the new facility...
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The Ebola epidemic in west Africa may have reached a turning point, according to the director of the Wellcome Trust, which is funding an unprecedented series of fast-tracked trials of vaccines and drugs against the disease.
Writing in the Guardian, Dr Jeremy Farrar says that although there are...
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A make-shift cover -- the 'Sarcophagus' -- was built in six months after the explosion. It covers the stricken reactor to protect the environment from radiation for at least 30 years. This has now developed cracks, triggering an international effort to fund a new encasement.
* Ukraine is seeking...
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