humanitarian
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As the oil embargo continues to make life and access to essentials difficult on Cuba, two Mexican ships carrying 800 tonnes of humanitarian aid arrived at Havana Bay on Thursday.
From BBC
International humanitarian law is a set of rules that seek to limit the effects of armed conflict.
From Barron's
The U.S. campaign to block Cuba’s oil imports is deepening a humanitarian crisis on the island, the United Nations said Friday, as Mexico and other countries shipped food and emergency supplies.
“You have the perturbations of the conflict and increased humanitarian needs at the same time as a challenging funding environment constrained the delivery environment,” said Julien Harneis, the U.N.’s resident coordinator in Yemen.
From Los Angeles Times
On the security front, Africa's failure to resolve the civil war in Sudan, triggering what the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis, could be seen as an example of this, Opalo added.
From BBC
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