Disaster

News Hour: The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting the Government of Haiti in providing emergency food assistance to 750,000 people in regions battered by powerful Hurricane Matthew. WFP’s food distributions began on 8 October in...

News Hour: IOM is making available to partners 8,000 emergency kits provided by USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) to assist families most affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Delivery of the kits started in...

News Hour: Food, shelter and clean water are needed urgently by people in southern Haiti following the destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew last week. Oxfam fears that the current death toll of at least 800 will...

News Hour: The UK is committing up to £5 million of initial support to help thousands of people in Haiti affected by Hurricane Matthew, Priti Patel announced today. The funding includes a first consignment of UK...

News Hour: Haiti faces a humanitarian crisis that requires a “massive response” from the international community, the United Nations chief said on Monday, with at least 1.4 million people needing emergency aid following last week’s battering...

News Hour: Eight people have been killed after a series of unexplained building collapses in eastern China and there are fears the death toll could rise as rescuers searched through the rubble. Four buildings caved in...

News Hour: Hurricane Matthew lashed the southeastern US coast with driving wind and rain on Friday, flooding streets with ocean water, leaving more than a million people without power and claiming four lives. Millions of Americans...

News Hour: The Haitian authorities have postponed presidential and legislative elections originally set for Sunday because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Matthew, election officials said on Wednesday. The impoverished Caribbean nation’s last elections, in 2015,...

News Hour: South Korea cleaned up on Thursday after Typhoon Chaba lashed its southern coast with powerful winds and heavy rains that triggered flash floods and left six people dead and four missing. The violent storm...

News Hour: As powerful Hurricane Matthew barrels toward Haiti, CARE is preparing to respond to this potentially devastating storm with clean drinking water, food assistance and emergency supplies such as tarps for shelter, blankets and hygiene...