Afghanistan: In Afghanistan, a Village Is a Model of Dashed Hopes
Source: New York TimesCountry: AfghanistanLynsey Addario for The New York TimesALICE-GHAN, Afghanistan — This tiny village rose from the rocky soil with great hopes and $10 million in foreign aid, a...
View ArticleHaiti: Haiti: Cellphone Tracking Helps Groups Set Up More Effective Aid...
Source: New York TimesCountry: HaitiBy DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Populations on the run during disasters can be tracked by cellphone signals, which could help guide life-saving aid to the right places, a new...
View ArticleMyanmar: As Myanmar Reaches Out, Old Conflict Flares Within
Source: New York TimesCountry: MyanmarYANGON, Myanmar — Intensifying clashes between ethnic rebels and Myanmar’s army have forced tens of thousands of villagers into refugee camps near the Chinese...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Long Neglected, Camps in Kabul Get a Deluge of Aid
Source: New York TimesCountry: AfghanistanBy ROD NORDLANDKABUL, Afghanistan — The 6,000 refugees living in the Charahi Qambar camp did not object when American soldiers came by Saturday to deliver...
View ArticleSudan: A Taste of Hope Sends Refugees Back to Darfur
Source: New York TimesCountry: Chad, SudanBy JEFFREY GETTLEMANNYURU, Sudan — More than 100,000 people in Darfur have left the sprawling camps where they had taken refuge for nearly a decade and headed...
View ArticleSyrian Arab Republic: Clans and Villages Now Fleeing Syria, Investigators Say
Source: New York TimesCountry: Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, TurkeyBy RICK GLADSTONE and STEPHEN CASTLEA United Nations inquiry commission on rights abuses in the Syria conflict offered grim...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Winter Killed at Least 100 Afghan Refugee Children, Study Estimates
Source: New York TimesCountry: AfghanistanBy ROD NORDLANDKABUL, Afghanistan — After a harsh winter killed children in refugee camps around the Afghan capital and brought attention to poor conditions...
View ArticleMali: In Timbuktu, Harsh Change Under Islamists
Source: New York TimesCountry: MaliBy ADAM NOSSITERBAMAKO, Mali — Isolated for centuries by the harsh desert that surrounds it, Timbuktu now finds itself even more cut off from the rest of the...
View ArticleHaiti: Years After Haiti Quake, Safe Housing Is a Dream for Many
Source: New York TimesCountry: HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Since the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, a scrappy 12-year-old boy named Givenson Fanfan has been sleeping on the rock-hard floor of a tent...
View ArticleSyrian Arab Republic: Syria Orders Schools to Open, but Classes Give Way to War
Source: New York TimesCountry: Lebanon, Syrian Arab RepublicDAMASCUS, Syria — At one Syrian school, in the Damascus suburbs, students were so scarce this week that teachers spent most of the last few...
View ArticleHaiti: Rebuilding in Haiti Lags After Billions in Post-Quake Aid
Source: New York TimesCountry: HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A few days after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, Reginald Boulos opened the gates of his destroyed car dealership to some 14,000 displaced...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghan Camps Receive Winter Aid, but Officials Say It Isn’t Enough
Source: New York TimesCountry: AfghanistanBy ROD NORDLANDKABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Sunday distributed emergency cold-weather supplies to families in a...
View ArticleSyrian Arab Republic: Fighting Shortages, Syrian Civilians Take Reins in...
Source: New York TimesCountry: Syrian Arab RepublicBy DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKPublished: February 28, 2013TILALYAN, Syria — Bundled in a thick overcoat against the frosty afternoon, Mohamed Moussa watched...
View ArticleJordan: A Lost Generation: Young Syrian Refugees Struggle to Survive
Source: New York TimesCountry: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, TurkeySABHA, Jordan — The parents were petrified the oldest of their seven children would be drafted into the Syrian Army....
View ArticleSudan: As Floods Ravage Sudan, Young Volunteers Revive a Tradition of Aid
Source: New York TimesCountry: SudanKHARTOUM, Sudan — Their temporary headquarters are a beehive of young volunteers buzzing in and out of rooms, up and down stairs, carrying bags of donated food,...
View ArticlePhilippines: Land Disputes Slow Recovery in Philippines
Source: New York TimesCountry: PhilippinesBy KEITH BRADSHERTACLOBAN, the Philippines — A mile offshore from this typhoon-wrecked city lies a postcard-perfect tropical islet fringed with golden sand...
View ArticleIndia: Two Relief Camps in Uttar Pradesh Settle Into Permanency
Source: New York TimesCountry: IndiaBHURA CAMP, Uttar Pradesh — The Bhura relief camp set up for Muslims who were fleeing violent clashes with Hindu-Jats in western Uttar Pradesh over four months ago...
View ArticlePhilippines: Months After Typhoon, Philippine City Suffers From an Exodus of...
Source: New York TimesCountry: PhilippinesBy KEITH BRADSHERFEB. 3, 2014TACLOBAN, the Philippines — As Jesse Siozon waited for his grandfather’s funeral to begin, beneath the orange and blue tarps that...
View ArticleMyanmar: Ban on Doctors’ Group Imperils Muslim Minority in Myanmar
Source: New York TimesCountry: MyanmarBy JANE PERLEZMARCH 13, 2014BANGKOK — Nearly 750,000 people, most of them members of a Muslim minority in one of the poorest parts of Myanmar, have been deprived...
View ArticlePakistan: Aid Scarce as Pakistanis Flee Conflict
Source: New York TimesCountry: PakistanBy IHSANULLAH TIPU MEHSUDJUNE 20, 2014BANNU, Pakistan — The man waited for hours in the sweltering heat at a security checkpoint near here as his family struggled...
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