WASHINGTON—The United States is providing more than $20 million in additional humanitarian aid for nearly 700,000 asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Central America and Mexico, the State Department said on Friday. In total, the United States has provided more than $331 million in such aid in fiscal year 2021, the department said in a…
U.S. Gives Central America, Mexico Another $20 Million in Humanitarian Aid
US Gives Central America, Mexico Another $20 Million in Humanitarian Aid
WASHINGTON—The United States is providing more than $20 million in additional humanitarian aid for nearly 700,000 asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Central America and Mexico, the State Department said on Friday. In total, the United States has provided more than $331 million in such aid in fiscal year 2021, the department said in a…
Taliban Pledges to Protect Humanitarian Workers and Grant Afghans Access to Aid: UN
The Taliban has pledged to protect humanitarian aid workers operating in Afghanistan and ensure aid is delivered to Afghans in need, a senior United Nations official has said. At the request of the secretary-general, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths visited the country where he met with the Taliban’s nominal leader, Mullah Baradar, and other officials of…
Aid Group: 22 Migrants Die on Way to Spain; Dozens Missing
MADRID—A humanitarian aid group that monitors the plight of migrants taking perilous seaborne routes to Spain said that 21 women and one girl have died and several dozen more people were lost at sea while trying to reach the Canary Islands. Helena Maleno, founder of nongovernmental organization Walking Borders, tweeted Thursday that 22 bodies have…
US Policy on Nigeria Needs an Unblinkered View of Atrocities
Commentary Nigeria, despite boasting Africa’s largest economy, is “falling apart,” warn that nation’s Catholic bishops. Pointing to the mayhem let loose by various Islamic terrorist groups and criminals, they describe government authorities that are “either unable—or worse still, unwilling—to take up the responsibilities of their office.” Citing the bishops, Council on Foreign Relations’ Nigeria expert…
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