Arab world pledges urgent aid to Gaza
Lebanon has pledged to send $1 million in assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Iraq plans to send a planeload of food and medicine to the territory ahead of an emergency Arab League summit on Wednesday in Cairo.
In vital need of information
A Paris exhibition shows the work of radio stations dedicated to populations subjected to violence on the border between Chad and Sudan. Information has become a vital commodity, say humanitarian workers.
The humanitarian business
In recent years, a growing number of corporate giants have invested in private humanitarian funds such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the Clinton Global Initiative. But is mixing business and aid really a good thing?
Afghanistan to host summit on returning refugees
Afghanistan will host on Wednesday a summit on Afghan refugees. With five of the eight million refugee Afghans returning after the fall of the Taliban regime, this will be the largest repatriation program ever organised.
Congo 'massacre' on scale rarely seen, says Kouchner
The French foreign minister made the remarks as he and his British counterpart prepared to leave for the DR Congo and Rwanda on Friday to assess what their governments called an impending humanitarian crisis.






