Tag Archives : USAID

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park. To prove that illegal logging, a major cause [...]

For the hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, there has been very little actual assistance from both international NGOs and the Pakistani government itself. The numbers are mind-boggling: 200,000 additional internally displaced persons (IDPs) pouring in everyday into refugee camps. Pakistani [...]

The U.S. State Department asserts that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will be responsible for every death that will occur after the Khartoum government kicked out foreign aid groups this month. U.S. diplomats reported that conditions are worsening in the refugee camps that have been accommodating thousands of displaced people from the Darfur region. [...]

Rumors have been circulating that the car crash that injured Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan was not really an accident as Tsvangirai thinks it was. Whether there was foul play or not, it certainly looked as a baptism of fire for the newly installed PM who had to fight tooth and nail to share governing powers with [...]