Cataclysmic floods in Pakistan kill 1,100, including 380 children
Charsadda, Pakistan Reuters Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid on Tuesday for what it described as an “unprecedented climate catastrophe.” Army helicopters plucked stranded families and dropped food packages to inaccessible areas as the historic […]
Facing hunger: A Somali boy’s mission to find food as climate change takes its toll
KATHERINE HOURELD, of Reuters, reports from Dollow in Somalia…
Ukraine war ripples to Yemen where no funds mean no food
Aden, YemenThomson Reuters Foundation Ali’s brittle legs stuck out awkwardly from a gray onesie that hung off him, although it was meant for his age. At three months old, the Yemeni infant has already spent a third of his life fighting to keep it. Ali was treated for acute malnutrition free of charge at the […]
UN says women and babies at risk in Yemen as funds crunch forces clinics to shut
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation The United Nations warned on Thursday that more than half its reproductive health facilities in war-hit Yemen would close by the end of this month, putting the lives of women and babies at risk, unless it got more funding. The UN Population Fund said it had closed 100 facilities at the end […]