Stray Bullets - Simon Cowell Organises Haiti Charity Single
Aftershocks Continue: Mass Migration BeginsBritish rescuers have given up hope on finding any more survivors in the rubble. Rescue workers from the organisation Rapid UK said that they have done “all we can” and it was time for relief teams to take over. The past week has seen a series of miraculous rescues, including that of 11 year old Mendji Bahina Sanon; who was pulled out alive after spending eight days under the remains of her home in Port-au-Prince. The death toll from the earthquake so far is estimated at 200,000 with around 2 million thought to be homeless. Haiti’s government are today planning to move 400,000 people from the broken capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts.
To do this, the government has made transportation free to the people, with the mass operation in place to remove survivors from the shattered city to tented villages in the suburbs, where food and sanitation services can be better co-ordinated. Medics treating survivors of the Haitian earthquake have warned the next big challenge is saving as many as three million hungry, injured and homeless people from deadly infections and diseases.
As British rescue workers leave, aid agencies will take over the baton. On Wednesday, the Disaster Emergency Committee, a coalition of 13 British aid agencies, said it had received £31.5 million in donations for its Haiti appeal. Also this week, Christian Aid called for the cancellation of all Haiti’s international debts.
Cowell Rallies Music Artists For Haiti Charity Single
Leona Lewis, JLS, Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Take That and Sir Paul McCartney are rumoured to be covering REM’s ballad Everybody Hurts to raise money for Haiti. Simon Cowell has teamed up with The Sun newspaper to organise the single which is to be released later this month. Proceeds are to be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun’s Helping Haiti Campaign. REM is to waive royalties on the charity track and are said to be “deeply touched that the song has been chosen for the Haiti campaign.”>
Herpes Drug Fails To Cut HIV Risk
A widely used treatment for the herpes virus does not reduce the risk of transmission of HIV/Aids, according to a report published on Wednesday after a five-year trial. The study highlighted that people who had both HIV and the virus responsible for the most common form of herpes, HSV-2, did not cut the chance of passing it on by taking the twice-daily prescribed dose of acyclovir. The study looked at more than 3,400 African couples – one of each who had HIV and one who didn’t. Several studies have indicated that frequent herpes recurrences increase the amount of HIV in the blood and genital tract.
Kenyan Farmers Insure Goats For 33p
Herders in northern Kenya who suffered large cattle losses during recent droughts are to be offered livestock insurance in a pioneering project that uses satellite imagery of available grazing to determine when payout occurs. The scheme is being launched today by the International Livestock Research Institute. While there have been 28 droughts in the area over the past century, four have struck in the last decade alone, causing significant animal loss and pushing many families towards acute poverty. Previously, it was near impossible for herders to insure their livestock as it was difficult to verify the death of animals over a wide and remote area. But ILRI said that their scheme does not pay out on the death on an animal; but when the satellite imagery shows that available forage is so scarce, animals are likely to starve. Around a thousand farming households are expected to pay to value their herds to insure them for a year. For a cow the cost would start at £3.25, and 33p for a goat or sheep. There will be two potential payouts a year based on satellite imagery, one at the end of the long dry season in September and another in February. ILRI said that the insurance policies could be used to buy food or drugs to help their animals survive these difficult periods.
Conflict Amongst Youth Gangs In Nigeria
Clashes between Muslims and Christian youth gangs in the central city of Jos has left 150 people dead. Nigeria has roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, but this week’s violence erupted after an argument between Muslim and Christian neighbours over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in the 2008 clashes.Nigeria has suffered many outbreaks of religious unrest since a civil war between 1967 and 1970 which killed 1 million people. The spokesman for the vice president has said that the “situation is now under control”
Leona Lewis, JLS, Michael Buble, Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Take That and Sir Paul McCartney are rumoured to be covering REM’s ballad Everybody Hurts to raise money for Haiti. Simon Cowell has teamed up with The Sun newspaper to organise the single which is to be released later this month. Proceeds are to be split between the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and the Sun’s Helping Haiti Campaign. REM is to waive royalties on the charity track and are said to be “deeply touched that the song has been chosen for the Haiti campaign.”>
Herpes Drug Fails To Cut HIV Risk
A widely used treatment for the herpes virus does not reduce the risk of transmission of HIV/Aids, according to a report published on Wednesday after a five-year trial. The study highlighted that people who had both HIV and the virus responsible for the most common form of herpes, HSV-2, did not cut the chance of passing it on by taking the twice-daily prescribed dose of acyclovir. The study looked at more than 3,400 African couples – one of each who had HIV and one who didn’t. Several studies have indicated that frequent herpes recurrences increase the amount of HIV in the blood and genital tract.
Kenyan Farmers Insure Goats For 33p
Herders in northern Kenya who suffered large cattle losses during recent droughts are to be offered livestock insurance in a pioneering project that uses satellite imagery of available grazing to determine when payout occurs. The scheme is being launched today by the International Livestock Research Institute. While there have been 28 droughts in the area over the past century, four have struck in the last decade alone, causing significant animal loss and pushing many families towards acute poverty. Previously, it was near impossible for herders to insure their livestock as it was difficult to verify the death of animals over a wide and remote area. But ILRI said that their scheme does not pay out on the death on an animal; but when the satellite imagery shows that available forage is so scarce, animals are likely to starve. Around a thousand farming households are expected to pay to value their herds to insure them for a year. For a cow the cost would start at £3.25, and 33p for a goat or sheep. There will be two potential payouts a year based on satellite imagery, one at the end of the long dry season in September and another in February. ILRI said that the insurance policies could be used to buy food or drugs to help their animals survive these difficult periods.
Conflict Amongst Youth Gangs In Nigeria
Clashes between Muslims and Christian youth gangs in the central city of Jos has left 150 people dead. Nigeria has roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, but this week’s violence erupted after an argument between Muslim and Christian neighbours over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in the 2008 clashes.Nigeria has suffered many outbreaks of religious unrest since a civil war between 1967 and 1970 which killed 1 million people. The spokesman for the vice president has said that the “situation is now under control”
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