Fwd: AlertNet Expresso - Your daily shot of humanitarian news

Here are the top humanitarian news on trust.org today.

AFRICA

UN Ebola trust fund gets $100,000, almost $1 bln needed

Ebola crisis putting pregnant women, infants lives at risk - UN

INTERVIEW-Ebola must be stopped at source, not via travel bans: World Bank's Jim Yong Kim

Ebola spreads to last healthy district in Sierra Leone

SPOTLIGHT: Ebola outbreak in West Africa

At least 27 killed in attacks in eastern Congo - official

SPOTLIGHT: Congo conflict

At least 6 killed in northern Mali ahead of peace talks

 

MIDDLE EAST

Islamic State training pilots to fly in three jets -Syria monitor

Red Cross delivers first medical aid in a year to Palestinians in Syria

VIDEO: Kurdish sources: Islamic State advance in Kobani appears to be stalling

• SPOTLIGHT: Syria's civil war

Libyan Red Crescent calls for Benghazi ceasefire as fighting rages

• SPOTLIGHT: Libya conflict

 

ASIA/PACIFIC

Myanmar rebels say military operations could end peace talks

• SPOTLIGHT: Myanmar troubles

Japan's volcanoes made more jittery by 2011 quake, expert says

 

AMERICAS

Hurricane Gonzalo on track to hit Bermuda

 

 

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