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  • 19 Oct 2007
    Christian Aid calls for major re-think on World Bank power policy

    As world financial leaders gather in Washington DC for the annual joint strategy meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Christian Aid is calling for an urgent rethink of the World Bank’s approach to tackling energy poverty.

  • 24 Sep 2007
    Mennonites help with hurricane relief in Nicaragua

    Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the North American Anabaptist relief, development and peace agency, is helping to provide food and other aid in seven indigenous communities in northeastern Nicaragua that were devastated by Hurricane Felix.

  • 12 Sep 2007
    Don't forget the Hurricane Felix victims, say aid agencies

    Church and development organisations working in hurricane-hit Nicaragua and Honduras are urging people not to forget the long- and short-term victims of the region's 'hidden disaster', the profile of which is being dwarfed by other world events in the media.

  • 6 Sep 2007
    Central America faces up to Hurricane Felix havoc

    Hurricane Felix, which struck Nicaragua on Tuesday 5 September 2007, has destroyed 9,000 homes, according to the Nicaraguan government. 38 people are confirmed dead, with another 80 missing. Honduras and Guatemala have also been hit.

  • 4 Sep 2007
    Hurricane Felix hits Nicaragua and Honduras

    Evacuations from coastal areas have begun in earnest, as a ‘potentially catastrophic’ hurricane threatens Central America. Church and development agencies have been working with local emergency committees to help communities create shelters.

  • 9 Mar 2007
    Development agency hails role of women

    Church World Service highlights the message of International Women's Day 2007 by looking at their work around the world

  • 14 Jan 2007
    Church agency calls on Nicaragua to prioritise anti-poverty action

    As Nicaragua welcomes Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega back to power after nearly seventeen years this week, UK-based development agency Christian Aid has called on the new president to use international debt relief for urgently needed anti-poverty programmes.

  • 13 Jan 2007
    Celebrations and questions greet the return of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua

    Social movements, progressive Christians and radical politicians across Latin America have welcomed the inauguration this week of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega as the new president of impoverished Nicaragua.

  • 18 Dec 2006
    Nicaraguan leader seeks church support over IMF on anti-poverty action

    Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega has announced that he will this week call on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to relax its stringent policy towards Nicaragua in order to be able to tackle endemic poverty and hunger.