Firestone Acted Early to Keep Virus in Check Within Its Confines FIRESTONE, Liberia—As Ebola exploded here this year, a rubber farm embarked on a crash course on how to tame an epidemic that has...
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United Nations' Food Aid Program for North Korea Lacks Donors
Agency Struggles to Attract Funds Amid Doubts Over Pyongyang's Intentions By JONATHAN CHENG SEOUL—The United Nations' food assistance agency says it may have to stop operating in North Korea because...
Mobile Message Disaster Warnings Become Law in the Philippines
MANILA, The Philippines—Soon, text-crazy Filipinos will get alerts in their mobile inboxes that read something like this: A strong typhoon is approaching the eastern coast of the Philippines, please...
Rescuers Sift Through Social-Media Noise to Direct Typhoon Response
Software provides teams with data-driven map of what they should be doing and where By JAMES HOOKWAY CONNECT Updated Nov. 10, 2013 10:45 a.m. ET In disasters like the typhoon that slammed into the...
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Sudan: Killing fields
(This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal on May 4, 2006) BY JAN EGELAND I first spoke to the U.N. Security Council on Darfur two years ago, calling it ethnic cleansing of the...
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Be prepared: Op-ed by Jan Egeland on launch of Global Emergency Fund
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL COMMENTARY Be Prepared By JAN EGELAND As the saying goes, much of life is timing. Nowhere is this truer than in an emergency, be it a natural disaster, a disease outbreak or...