From: Thomson Reuters Foundation <alertnet@reuters.com>
Date: 12 August 2014 11:47
Subject: AlertNet expresso - Your daily shot of humanitarian news
To: globecause@gmail.com
Here are the top humanitarian headlines today on trust.org:
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Islamist militants in Gaza have made no progress so far, an Israeli official says, as a 72-hour ceasefire in the shattered Palestinian enclave holds for a second day.
EBOLA: The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,013 after another 52 people died in the three days to Aug. 9 in three West African countries, the World Health Organization says.
- Spanish priest with Ebola dies in Madrid hospital
- Indian doctors in Nigeria say being forced to treat Ebola patients - report
- Liberia to get experimental Ebola drug to treat two doctors- minister
- Nigeria's Lagos now has 10 Ebola cases - health minister
- Ivory Coast imposes travel restrictions as Ebola fears spread
- SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa
IRAQ: Iraq's president has named a new prime minister to end Nuri al-Maliki's eight-year rule, but the veteran leader refused to go after deploying militias and special forces on the streets, creating a dangerous political showdown in Baghdad.
- US to consider more support for Iraq once new government formed - Kerry
- Iraq's Yazidis who escaped Mount Sinjar haunted by horrors
- SPOTLIGHT: Iraq divided and in crisis
COLOMBIA: Colombia is unlikely to sign a peace accord with Marxist rebels this year as the remaining items on the negotiating agenda are complex and time consuming, FARC guerrilla leader Rodrigo Londono says.
- Landmines still injure and kill Colombians despite peace efforts
- SPOTLIGHT: 50 years of Colombia's rebel fighters FARC
S. SUDAN: The United States has condemned South Sudan's government and rebels for failing to form a transitional government by Sunday's deadline, calling it "an outrage and an insult to their citizens". At least 10,000 people have been killed since fierce fighting erupted in South Sudan in December, pitting President Salva Kiir's government forces against supporters of Riek Machar, his former deputy and longtime political rival.
MORE ON TRUST.ORG
Human Rights Watch urges U.N. inquiry into "systematic" Egypt killings – Reuters
Russia says sending 280 trucks with humanitarian aid to Ukraine – Reuters
World Bank again criticized for investments in Honduras – Reuters
East India floods kill 45, leave 300,000 villagers marooned – Jatindra Dash, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Bentiu: CARE's mobile clinic treats people after months of conflict – Joseph Ngamije, CARE International
Solidarity between different generations of Central African refugees in Cameroon - UNHCR
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