Philippines – The Multilateral Moneylender Asian Development Bank (ADB) just endorsed a $2 million award to help the Philippine government’s crisis reaction to Typhoon Odette (global name Rai), which carried annihilation to focal and southern regions in December last year. The award, which will come from the ADB’s Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund, looks to give compassionate help with 15,000 …

The UAE has become the nerve centre of global humanitarian response. And it’s by design in a country whose founding fathers were keen to harness their energies to serve human development. Whether it’s responding to humanitarian needs in trouble spots, or medical emergencies triggered by on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the UAE’s role in providing logistics support, warehousing as well as the …