>"The major increase in US support would include $20bn in military assistance, plus economic aid."

>"Humanitarians have launched a renewed appeal for war-ravaged Ukraine that calls for $2.25 billion to provide assistance and protection to nearly nine million people, the UN announced on _...Read More_

"Congressional Democrats and Republicans took the final step Thursday night to approve roughly $14 billion in humanitarian, military and economic assistance to Ukraine, part of a sweeping spending package that funds the federal government _...Read More_

"The executive board of the World Bank has approved a plan to use more than $1bn from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance urgently needed education, agriculture, health and family programmes, the bank has announced. "

>"President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday allowing $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to be _...Read More_

>"The Afghan economy collapsed after the Taliban took over and international aid was cut off, leading to growing poverty and hunger."

Al Jazeera English: OIC nations pledge fund to prevent Afghanistan economic collapse. >"Islamic nations group pledges to set up _...Read More_

Excellent piece from the frontline: how Belarus Manufactured a Migrant Crisis on Europe’s Doorstep.

>"Government pockets half of donations as central bank forces UN agencies to use lower exchange rate"

>"MADURAI, INDIA (AFP) - Black ticks on their foreheads marking the eye to be operated on, dozens of patients in green overalls wait in line, beneficiaries of a pioneering Indian model that is restoring sight to millions.. Read more at _...Read More_

Online rental platform Airbnb’s CEO Brian Chesky said" it will provide free housing to 20,000 displaced Afghan refugees to help them settle around the world."

>"Five others were injured after gov’t shelling struck residential neighbourhoods in the village of Qastoun."

"Coronavirus cases in Tokyo have surged above 1,300 for a six-month high, just one week before the Olympics"

Thirty million of those are refugees, the rest are displaced within their own country (48 million) or asylum-seekers (4.1 million), according to UNHCR’s latest report. Nearly half of these forcibly displaced people are children.

"Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted last month, killing 32 people."