2014 was a tumultuous year. Fresh fighting rocked countries like the Central African Republic, Ukraine and South Sudan, even as ongoing violence in Syria and Iraq lingered. The turmoil left more people displaced from their homes than ever recorded before. More people died in this year’s Ebola outbreak than in all the previous outbreaks of the virus combined.
Major humanitarian organizations saw their budgets exhausted by the relentless stream of war and disaster, and are now grappling with the consequences. “2014 was a year of unprecedented global humanitarian need,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
