WHO Warns It is Running Out of Money to Tackle Ebola Epidemic in DRC
GENEVA – The World Health Organization is urgently appealing for $40 million to salvage its operation to bring the Ebola epidemic to an end in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ebola operation in eastern DR Congo’s conflict-ridden North Kivu …
WHO Warns It is Running Out of Money to Tackle Ebola Epidemic in DRC
GENEVA – The World Health Organization is urgently appealing for $40 million to salvage its operation to bring the Ebola epidemic to an end in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ebola operation in eastern DR Congo’s conflict-ridden North Kivu …
Myanmar Army Says it Will Try Soldiers Over Killings of Rohingya Civilians
The Myanmar military announced Friday that it would investigate and open court-martial proceedings against soldiers accused of killing Rohingya Muslim civilians during a violent army-led crackdown in the country’s Rakhine state in 2017, the third such case in a country …
WHO Warns Against Complacency as Coronavirus Cases Appear to Decline in China
GENEVA – The World Health Organization said it is encouraged by the apparent decline in the number of cases of the deadly coronavirus disease in China, but warned against complacency as the downward trend could change.
There is still time …
WHO Warns Against Complacency as Coronavirus Cases Appear to Decline in China
GENEVA – The World Health Organization said it is encouraged by the apparent decline in the number of cases of the deadly coronavirus disease in China, but warned against complacency as the downward trend could change.
There is still time …
Outspoken US Labor Leader Owen Bieber Dies at 90
Former U.S. labor leader Owen Bieber, one of the country’s most outspoken anti-apartheid activists who also backed Poland’s Solidarity labor movement, has died at 90.
A longtime union member, Bieber took over as the head of the United Auto Workers …
Fighting in Cameroon Kills Several Dozen
YAOUNDE – A least 35 civilians have reportedly been killed and 40 homes torched in less than a week in Cameroon’s English-speaking Northwest region, following bloody clashes between government troops and separatists fighting for the creation of an independent English-speaking …
Vietnam Quarantines Entire Commune of 10,000 on Coronavirus Fears
Authorities in Vietnam have closed off a community of more than 10,000 people near the capital, Hanoi, for the next 20 days on fears that coronavirus (COVID-19) could spread there.
Son Loi commune, in Vinh Phuc province’s Binh Xuyen district, …
Number of Civilian Casualties Grows in Armed Conflict in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine
At least seven civilians, including four Rohingya Muslims, died and 30 residents were injured in the past 11 days in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, a local aid worker said Wednesday, as the number of noncombatant deaths grows amid fighting between …