MSF accuses Ethiopian soldiers of 'targeted killing' of 3 staffers in Tigray in 2021
María Hernández Matas, a 35-year-old Spanish doctor, local colleague Yohannes Haleform Reda and driver Tedros Gebremariam were shot dead in June 2021, forcing the medical charity also known by its French acronym, MSF, to stop its services in Tigray despite conflict there.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Associated Press
3 hours ago
- Associated Press
12 rescued from collapsed gold mine in Congo and an unknown number of miners remain trapped
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Twelve people have been rescued from an informal gold mine in eastern Congo that collapsed over the weekend, trapping an unknown number of the thousands of miners working there, the provincial governor said Wednesday. The Lomera gold mine in the South Kivu province collapsed on Sunday following a landslide, burying numerous miners working in the underground tunnels, Gov. Patrick Busu bwa Ngwi Nshombothe said in a statement following his visit to the site. Nshombothe, who was appointed by a rebel group that controls the area, said over 4,700 miners work on the site and the death toll and number of miners missing are unknown. Search and rescue efforts continue. The South Kivu region has recently been hit by heavy rains, triggering landslides in several villages and mining sites. The Lomera site is an artisanal mine, operated not by a formal company but by individual workers using basic tools, often in hazardous conditions. It is located in a territory controlled by M23, an armed group backed by neighboring Rwanda. The group seized two large parts of mineral-rich eastern Congo in a major advance early this year. Thousands of people had come to Lomera in recent months, hoping to make money as artisanal miners, turning the area into a 'sprawling chaos of mineshafts and makeshift shelters', international aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a statement on a cholera outbreak in the area last month.
Fast Company
5 hours ago
- Fast Company
Taxpayer-funded vaccines meant to aid Africa are at risk of expiring
Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday. Forty-eight Democratic members of the House of Representatives, led by Representatives Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and Sara Jacobs of California, signed the letter, saying that the vaccines may expire as they sit in warehouses, wasting the U.S. taxpayer dollars that paid for them. The letter said 800,000 doses of the vaccines are at risk, and that some 220,000 doses could be viable if the State Department begins shipping them immediately. 'This is a moral, strategic, and public health failure in the making,' the letter said. Republican U.S. President Donald Trump has made sharp cuts to foreign aid programs since beginning his second term six months ago, firing thousands of aid agency employees and contractors and throwing global humanitarian operations into chaos. The Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives passed legislation this month approving Trump's request for about $8 billion in foreign aid cuts. Trump has said the U.S. pays disproportionately for foreign aid, and he wants other countries to shoulder more of the burden. The World Health Organization first declared the outbreak of mpox in August 2024, when an outbreak of a new form of the disease spread from the badly-hit Democratic Republic of Congo to neighboring countries. Uganda and Burundi also have been significantly affected.
New York Times
9 hours ago
- New York Times
U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS
The federal program to combat H.I.V. in developing nations earned a reprieve last week when Congress voted to restore $400 million in funding. Still, officials at the State Department have been mapping out a plan to shut it down in the coming years. Planning documents for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, obtained by The New York Times, call for the organization to set a new course that focuses on 'transitioning' countries away from U.S. assistance, some in as little as two years. PEPFAR, as the program is called, would cease to exist as an initiative to provide medicines and services needed to treat and prevent the spread of H.I.V. in low-income countries. It would be replaced by 'bilateral relationships' with low-income countries focused on the detection of outbreaks that could threaten the United States and the creation of new markets for American drugs and technologies, according to the documents. 'With targeted investment, PEPFAR's H.I.V. control capabilities in these countries could be transformed into a platform for rapid detection and outbreak response to protect Americans from disease threats like Ebola,' the plan says. A State Department spokeswoman said the document had not been finalized. 'The referenced document is not reflective of the State Department's policy on PEPFAR and was never cleared by Department leadership,' she said. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
