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Britain’s Valerie Amos (R), United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, sitting next to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Portugal’s Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (L) as they launch the Global Humanitarian Appeal 2015 to support people affected by disaster and conflict, during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on December 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN: $16.4 billion needed to aid most vulnerable

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 8, 2014 | World

Geneva, AP—The United Nations appealed Monday for 16.4 billion US dollars to pay for global humanitarian needs in 2015, saying it needs that money to help 57.5 million of the world’s most vulnerable people. More than 40 percent of the appeal—7.2 billion...

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Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad speaks during a new press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 26, 2014. (EPA/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Geneva II faces political complications

by Mina Al-Oraibi | Jan 27, 2014 | Middle East

Geneva, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hopes raised in the last two days for an agreement to allow humanitarian aid into the old town in the besieged Syrian city of Homs during the Geneva II conference were quashed on Sunday when the Syrian government refused to allow humanitarian...

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Turkish and European Union flags fly together as people walk under them at Taksim Square on May 24, 2013, in Istanbul. AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic

Erdoğan’s Deep Pockets

by Barçin Yinanç | Aug 30, 2013 | Majalla Blogs

Turkey recently announced its first contact with pygmies in a headline carried by the semi-official Anatolia News Agency. Some 3,000 pygmies in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo will be attending literacy courses and vocational training provided by the...

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Internally displaced Syrian families spend their day at the Maiber al-Salam refugee camp along the Turkish border in the northern province of Aleppo on April 28, 2013 (AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA)

The Politics of Aid in a War Zone

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | May 20, 2013 | Features

Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Every day at 2 p.m., Raja joins the queue that snakes around the half-finished apartment blocks. Like all the others, she is clutching a small metal bowl that she will fill with food to take home to her family. On leaner days, this will be...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference at the Friends of Syria meeting on April 20, 2013 in Istanbul. (AFP)

US Doubles Non-Lethal Aid to Syrian Rebels

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 21, 2013 | Middle East

Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—US Secretary of State John Kerry announced today that the US will double its non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition. Kerry announced the new package in a written statement at the end of a two-day conference that began on Saturday afternoon...