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ADEN, Yemen (IRIN) – Aid workers say Yemen is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster; but as needs in the country increase, the delivery of aid is becoming ever more complicated.

One of the poorest countries in the world with a rebel movement in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and al-Qaeda forces at large, Yemen has now been tipped even further over the edge by an ever more violent response to pro-democracy protests across its main cities, a fuel crisis and rising food prices. Compounded, these factors have turned chronic problems like malnutrition into acute crises.

Yet as an already fragile humanitarian situation gets worse, hesitant donors, insecurity and logistical complexities are hampering the delivery of aid to the most vulnerable.

“We have here in Yemen many concurrent humanitarian situations to deal with,” said Geert Cappelaere, representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Yemen. “Each and every one of these humanitarian situations is very often of an unprecedented complexity for us as the international humanitarian community.”

Funding

To begin with, interest in Yemen has always lagged behind other countries in the region. As Marc Lynch, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, wrote on his blog, “It has been difficult to get anyone to pay attention to Yemen.”

“While donors have pledged billions of dollars to help Tunisia, Egypt and Libya rebuild their economies and meet humanitarian needs, the plight of people living in the poorest country in the region is being forgotten by the international community,” Oxfam International said in a’ September report about widespread hunger and chronic malnutrition in Yemen.

The funding that did exist is now shrinking. Among other things, donors have been worried that funds could be funnelled through a widely reported government patronage system.

In mid-2011, the Netherlands withheld government aid in protest at human rights violations during the crackdown, the Oxfam report said. In August, the World Bank announced a freeze of its half-a-billion dollar aid programme over security and governance concerns. The USA and European Union have also withdrawn or suspended some funding in recent months, according to Ashley Clements, the report’s author.

“Ironically… with Yemen facing one of its greatest humanitarian challenges ever, donors are pulling funds,” he told IRIN. “Some money is talked about and never pledged. Some is pledged and never given.”

The Friends of Yemen – a group of donors concerned for Yemen’s future, including the USA and European and Gulf states – has not met since the current crisis began in February, Oxfam said. The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan, a UN-administered consolidated appeal for funds, has received less than 60 percent of the US$290 million it requested.

“While the political stalemate has caused many donors to pause, this is the time when it is most critical to act,” Oxfam said. “No longer should politics and security be the drivers of aid strategies in Yemen,” it added, referring in part to a US insistence on focusing its aid on counter-terrorism, rather than on the areas of Yemen in most need.

Insecurity

Insecurity in the country has also complicated the picture. The violent crackdown on protests in the capital Sana’a led the UN to temporarily evacuate more than half of its international staff. Most aid agencies have similarly cut down the number of staff present in the country, while trying to maintain the delivery of services.

Separately, renewed fighting between the army and militants in the south has displaced more than 100,000 people since May, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme (WFP) has seen a steady increase in the number of people it is feeding – from some 30,000 in June to 63,000 today, according to the WFP director in Yemen, Lubna Alaman. So far, the WFP is coping, she told IRIN. But “if anything else happens” – say a new displacement of a large number somewhere else – meeting the need would be a challenge, given the limited number of staff in the country, she said.

In the southern governorate of Abyan, the fighting has already hampered delivery of household items to displaced people, according to a 29 August situation report by OCHA.

For example, fighting in Abyan’s capital, Zinjibar, has led the military to close the area, making access to it very limited, said Tareq Talahma, a humanitarian affairs officer with OCHA.

In some areas in the north, malnutrition rates are among the worst in the world, with nearly a third of children under five suffering from moderate or severe acute malnutrition – more than twice the threshold for an emergency, according to a nutrition survey of displaced people from Hajjah Governorate conducted by UNICEF.

A rupture in a major pipeline in March sent fuel prices soaring and increased the price of food in a country where one third of the population – or 7.5 million people – did not have enough to eat to begin with. Oxfam found that of 100 families it surveyed recently, nearly a fifth took their children out of school to put them to work, and nearly two-thirds were skipping meals. Others were selling off valuable items to buy food.

But despite the alarming malnutrition rates and poor access to affordable food in the country, insecurity has hampered the delivery of nutritional supplies in some governorates, the OCHA report said.

Areas in al-Jawf, Ma’rib and parts of Amran governorates that are controlled by pro- and anti-government tribes create an access challenge for humanitarian agencies because “it’s very difficult to predict with whom you are dealing, what their agenda is and how they are going to deal with you,” OCHA’s Talahma told IRIN. Agencies rely on local partners to work in these zones.

In cities affected by the crackdown on anti-government protests, shooting is indiscriminatory, he added. “We can be indirect targets.”

Logistical complexities

The country’s lack of development has also been an issue. It has hampered a campaign to vaccinate children, the OCHA situation report said, with the government reporting that one fifth of the vaccination facilities are out of service because of a lack of transportation, gas, electricity and cold chain services.

Add to that low starting point the government’s reduced ability to provide basic services because of the recent political instability. The Ministry of Health, for example, is located in one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods of Sana’a.

“If it was functioning at a 40 percent level before, it’s probably functioning at 4 percent right now,” Vipul Chowdhary, outgoing representative for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) France in Yemen, told IRIN.

His organization was forced to suspend its operations in the northern Sa’dah Governorate after the rebels controlling the area imposed new rules banning international staff from supervising activities.

MSF had been operating the only hospital outside the governorate’s capital, Sa’dah City, treating nearly 5,000 patients a month, including performing at least 80 life-saving surgeries and seeing 1,100 emergency cases. Negotiations with rebels have also delayed food distributions, according to OCHA.

Layers of challenges

Yemen’s needs are so layered that by dealing with one crisis, you may just create another.

About 20,000 of the displaced people in Abyan, for example, have taken shelter in 112 schools. As a result, several thousand students in the southern cities of Aden and Lahj did not start the new school year on 17 September, as scheduled, and have been told the schools are shut until further notice.

The government and aid community have been searching for a permanent alternative shelter, but have yet to find one that satisfies the displaced.

“We couldn’t leave the classrooms just to live in the open or in stadiums that lack the minimum requirements for human life. We will only move back to our homes in Abyan Governorate,” said 45-year-old Salim Abdullah, living with his family of nine in 22 May School in Aden city. “All the IDPs [internally displaced persons] in this school have agreed not to leave until the government compensates us [for damage to property] and takes us back to our homes.” Khalid Naji, another IDP, told IRN that all the IDPs in Belguis School in Aden city unanimously rejected the idea of moving to camps.

If the displaced don’t vacate the schools soon, the international community will be forced to change tack – searching instead for alternative learning spaces to ensure that children, including displaced children in Lahj Governorate near Abyan and Aden, have access to education, UNICEF’s Cappelaere said.

It is a layer of complication that has blurred the lines between emergency and development work, and only contributes to a downward cycle, he added.

“How on earth do we think this country will develop if it has no educated population? There are huge stakes here. Whoever is responsible today for whatever is going on throughout the country needs to bear that in mind,” he told IRIN. “This is not just about a political chess game. This is a chess game that has incredible humanitarian consequences for children and also therefore jeopardizing the future of the country.”

Innovative solutions?

For all these reasons, “aid in Yemen is now undeniably more complex and more risky than in previous years,” the Oxfam report said.

Still, the organization insists there are ways of getting around the obstacles, using “innovative” solutions, such as food vouchers and cash programmes to strengthen local markets and connecting with the private sector, which may already know how to function safely and effectively amid insecurity, to deliver aid.

“Aid can get through, even in highly complex, challenging, and insecure environments,” the report said, adding: “Donors may need to think further outside the box in order to get support to those in need.”

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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Surveys made by Gallup and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more young Americans acquired health insurance in the past 12 months.

Gallup found that the number of uninsured Americans ages 18 to 26 went down to 24.2 percent from 28 percent in the third quarter of 2010. It is almost the lowest rate since Gallup started to monitor health insurance coverage rates in 2008.

The acquisition of coverage by almost one million U.S. residents is likely because of the 2010 Health Care law which permitted adults under 26 to be covered by their parents’ plan. Although the age-specific provision went into effect in September 2010, many insurance firms implemented the change beforehand.

Both surveys did not link the rise in insurance coverage for young adult Americans to the law, although the difficulty of finding fulltime employment which usually carries with it health insurance coverage provides the connection between the two.

Gallup said that the number of uninsured young American adults started to go up in the fall of 2008, which was the same period when the global financial crisis started and more people found it difficult to get a job.

The Republican presidential hopefuls are against the law and called for its repeal. Health care and social security were among the issues that Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney debated on Thursday.

Perry was attacked by Romney for the Texas governor’s support for mandatory vaccinations for young girls against sexually transmitted virus.

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Boston, MA, United States (AHN) – The dangers of second-hand smoke have been debated for years. A new study backs proponents of smoke free environments, especially those with children.

According to a new study from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, children who live in homes where at least one person smokes have more ear infections and miss more school than kids who live with non-smokers.

Researchers found that children living with smokers missed an average of one or two more days a year than those who live with non-smokers. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, reveals that one in three children in the United States live in a household with at least one smoker. And, the more smokers in a dwelling, the greater the risk of illness for a child living there.

The study suggests that eliminating smoking from households with children could reduce the amount of school their children miss by 24% to 34%. It would also alleviate financial burdens of parents by lessening the amount of time they need to take off work to care for a sick child, and in doctor bills.

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Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The unemployment rate grew 9 percent in April despite the economy adding more jobs than was expected.

The Labor Department said on Friday nonfarm payroll increased 244,000 during the period, boosted by gains in the service, manufacturing and mining industries. In the private sector, 268,000 jobs were added while the federal and state governments lost 24,000 jobs.

There was an increase of 51,000 positions during the month in the professional and businesses services, specifically in technical consulting and coputers systems design.

Jobs related to healthcare rose 37,000, largely due to a 22,000 increase in employment in ambultory healthcare. Hospitals accounted for 10,000 jobs.

In the hospitatility industry, there was continued growth with 46,000 more jobs, mainly from a 30,600 spike in employment in accomodation and food services.

Manufacturing added 29,000 jobs to the economy and mining 11.4 percent.

Despite the gains, the unemployment trate rose to 9 percent in April from 8.8 percent in the previous month.

The number of jobless Americans remained little changed at 13.7 million. Those unemployed for less than five weeks rose by 242,000, but the number of jobless for at least 27 weeks dropped by 283,000 to 5.8 million.

There was virtually the same number of people involutarily working part-time, at 8.6 million.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) used the jobs report to assail the White House for “causing renewed uncertainty for private-sector job creators, crowding out private investment and punishing small businesses and entrepreneurs who are willing to invest.”

“While any improvement is welcome news, job growth in America is still nowhere close to what it should be,” the Republican leader added.

“Over the past month, rather than joining Republicans in focusing on policies that promote long-term economic growth to help balance the federal budget, the Democrats who control Washington have indicated they are planning to increase taxes and allow the government’s spending binge to continue.”

But the White House pointed out that there was an averge of about a quarter of a million private sector jobs created each month for three consecutive months.

“We’re pleased about that. We obviously have a lot more work to do,” presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. “The recession cost the American labor force 8 million jobs and we’re still digging ourselves out of that hole.”

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty sought Wednesday for more powers for the province in selecting migrant workers.

By seeking more autonomy, Ontario wants to have more oversight in picking newcomers and designing programs to help them integrate into Canadian society.

McGuinty complained that the top-down approach used by Ottawa to bring in migrants places Ontario at a competitive disadvantage. He said Ontario is losing to other Canadian provinces such as British Columbia and Alberta in attracting the best immigrants, in the process hampering Ontario’s attempt to jumpstart its economy.

McGuinty wants the same control over the province’s immigration program as that enjoyed by Quebec, Manitoba and BC. McGuinty attributed the current situation to previous Ontario deals with Ottawa – both Liberal- and Conservative-led – which resulted in Ontario shortchanged by $200 million in immigration funds.

However, instead of McGuinty seeking more autonomy in immigration programs, New Democratic Party-Ontario leader Andrea Horwath said the provincial government should help foreign professionals integrate and have their credential recognized. She said the lack of accreditation is the reason why some migrants in Ontario who have higher skills end up as cabbies and pizza delivery drivers.

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After Japan, plans for more nuclear power plants are all but over nrc.gov In Minnesota, radioactive waste is stored on a floodplain at Prairie Island. Analysis by Ron Way | Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Despite the Legislature’s attempt to lift Minnesota’s 17-year moratorium on new nuclear power plants and President Obama’s plan that taxpayers assume the financial risk of building several more plants in the United States, the morass of issues surrounding nukes makes it unlikely that a new fission nuclear plant will be operational in Minnesota for at least the next half century. And as the frightening events of the earthquake and tsunami-ravaged nuclear plants in Japan plays out – not just now, which is bad enough, but for years to come with news reports of contaminated food and water, radiation sickness and premature death – the fate of nuclear power could be sealed. The very worst case is if a meltdown occurs at one or more of the four Fukushima reactors and prevailing westerly winds shift and carry a highly radioactive cloud 150 miles into the Tokyo megalopolis (the city alone has nearly 13 million people). The chilling scenario is too horrible to imagine.

But Japan’s unfolding disaster only shovels dirt on the nukes’ grave. The high promise of the 1950s that nuclear would provide cheap, reliable power and its more recent promise of providing an answer to greenhouse gases from coal plants began to unravel with the nation’s decades-long failure to find a politically acceptable storage site for growing piles of radioactive wastes. The problems continued with safety fears stoked in 1979 with a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Penn., and again in 1986 with the Chernobyl meltdown in the Ukraine. In all, a half century of tangled events – some technical, some emotional and lots political – have conspired to present daunting challenges for nuclear power. It all came to a head a few years back when lenders, faced with surging cost overruns and prolonged regulatory review, determined that financial risk of new plants is too great. With the present disaster in Japan, industry uncertainty has grown even more, regulatory and other delays will surely increase, and building costs will be a whole lot higher. The industry’s only hope is for the federal government to step up and assume financial risk to build new plants just as it did more than 50 years ago when Congress took over a major insurance risk for nuclear plants. That’s why Obama is pushing a $54.5 billion package to have the federal government guarantee loans to build nuclear plants (a good analysis of Obama’s nuclear policy is here ). Back in 1957 Congress passed the Price Anderson Act , which limited operator liability in the event of a nuclear accident, overcoming a major hurdle at the time because power companies couldn’t afford private-market insurance for their projects. Minnesota’s role Nuclear power’s history provides a trove of missed opportunities, safety fears and an often contradictory mix of political ideology. Through it all, Minnesota has played an important role. In the 1960s, Earl Ewald, the visionary CEO of Northern States Power Company (NSP, now part of Xcel Energy), was convinced that nuclear was the power source of the future, despite the company’s cost and safety troubles with its Pathfinder plant near Sioux Falls, S.D. (The plant was abandoned due to high cost and safety issues shortly after it opened in 1967). In 1971 NSP built the 600-megawatt generator at Monticello , Minn., and applied for permits to build twin 500-megawatt generators at Prairie Island near Red Wing, Minn., (completed in 1973). The process was watched closely by U.S. power companies and by the powerful – now defunct – U.S. House-Senate Joint Atomic Energy Committee in Washington. That’s because the fledgling Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sought to regulate radioactive discharges from the nuclear plants, something that no other state had tried (see Dr. Dean Abrahamson’s splendid historical piece in MinnPost ). It was a hot and humid summer day in the late 1960s at a public hearing on the proposed Prairie Island plant when a withered elder of the Mdewakanton Sioux spoke: “My counsel to you is something my father told me: ‘Measure twice and cut once.’” He looked each hearing officer in the eye as he slowly repeated his advice, for emphasis. The issue then was over a planned federal nuclear-waste storage facility at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain and some other sites. NSP assured regulators that a waste repository would be completed by the time Prairie Island opened, and so the Indian elder and others need not worry about disposal of “spent” fuel rods. (Although “spent” rods no longer generate sufficient heat to spin turbines, they still contain material that remains highly radioactive for thousands of years.) But no federal waste site ever opened, and political wrangling over the Yucca site has pushed development out another decade – or at least until Yucca opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., leaves Congress. Obama has defunded the Yucca site. And so radioactive wastes are stored at all 104 plants across the United States. In Minnesota, rad-wastes are stored on a floodplain at Prairie Island, where wary tribal residents continue to live and where NSP and regulators made “the cut” and built without, it turns out, making certain of a critical measure as the elder long ago warned. At Monticello, rad-wastes are stored upstream and upwind of the Twin Cities – a site that surely wouldn’t be allowed today. Dayton’s position The waste-storage issue won’t go away. Gov. Mark Dayton opposes lifting the state’s moratorium on nuclear power plants: (1) until a waste site is developed, (2) until it’s assured that spent fuel won’t be turned into weapons grade plutonium (a controversial subject involving dicey issues like nuclear proliferation in an age of Iran and North Korea), and (3) until it’s assured that Xcel ratepayers won’t be on the hook for ever-growing nuclear-plant development costs. In other words, with Dayton as governor Minnesota’s nuclear moratorium won’t be lifted. But it all may be moot, because Xcel officials have said they have no plans for a nuclear plant in Minnesota or anywhere else in their multi-state territory. One of the tangles in the nuclear debate is the curious ideological juxtaposition in which most nuclear proponents dislike government subsidies of private industry and don’t want government to “pick winners and losers.” Both Obama and Sen. John McCain – and even former Minnesota governor and now presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty – have said nuclear power plants are needed to provide reliable power without adding greenhouse gases. But the only way to accomplish that is for the federal government to continue to provide massive subsidies and assume even more financial risk because private lenders and insurers have shown they believe nuclear power is too costly and risky. McCain has said he’d like to see 45 new nuclear power plants built in the United States by 2030, something mouthed by Pawlenty as he angled to get on McCain’s presidential ticket in 2008. At about $10 billion a pop, that would mean putting federal taxpayers on the hook for a half trillion dollars to aid a single energy sector. And since Obama’s plan would cap loan guarantees at $54 billion, it means the federal government would be “picking winners and losers” by backing only the first few new plants. Meantime, other alternative-energy sources like solar, wind and thermal are starved of front-end cash for them to get to viability. Another curious political cross-current arose when nuclear power advocates, for the most part, opposed so-called “cap and trade” policies that would drive up costs of spewing carbon and other climate-altering gases into the atmosphere. This would be accomplished by regulators setting a cap on greenhouse-gas emissions and forcing polluters to purchase (“trade” for) credits at ever-increasing costs. “Cap and trade” had initial appeal because it relied on a market-sector device to assign “external” costs to pollution. As governor, Pawlenty embraced a major carbon-reduction bill passed overwhelmingly by the 2007 Legislature, and he later worked with then-Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, a Democrat, to develop a Midwestern group to implement cap and trade and other policies to combat climate change. The cap-and-trade approach was strongly supported by nuclear power advocates because it would help make nuclear more attractive financially. However, Tea Party adherents and other political conservatives derided cap and trade as “cap and tax” and have made it a litmus test of conservatism. Pawlenty, who needs Republican conservatives next year in primary states, has done an about face on cap and trade or other carbon-reducing policies, putting him squarely at odds with the nuclear industry he says he supports. Safety worries Through it all, questions of the safety of nuclear plants has been at the core of most political debates. Whether plants are safe is a matter of perspective. Nuclear advocates claim technical redundancies in modern plants result in less radiation than, say, one is exposed to on daytime commercial airplane flights. And that may be true. But it’s also true that SUV vehicles are “safe” until they roll over or hit a bridge, or that railroad chemical tankers are “safe” until they jump a track. In fact, nuclear power plants contain some pretty nasty stuff, as the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl proved, and which is now apparent by the unfolding disaster in Japan. Nuclear proponents were gaining support on the safety issue until the Japan earthquake happened, and now safety is of such concern that sales of potassium iodide (to protect from thyroid cancer in the event of excessive radiation levels) are spiking throughout the West Coast. (In Phoenix, one person displayed his ample supply of potassium iodide he said was protection not from anything in Japan but in case of trouble at the giant, 3200-megawatt Palo Verde plant near the city or trouble at plants upwind in California, an area crisscrossed with earthquake-prone fault lines.) Responding to developments in Japan, Obama and European leaders vowed that they will learn from the disaster and examine regulatory and other preparations. What they will learn (again) is that nuclear power plants are dangerous places. More safety and protective measures can only add to spiraling construction costs and regulatory reform can only add time and still more cost to a process to build plants that private lenders and insurers say are too risky. Ron Way covers the environment and energy issues. He can be reached at rway [at] minnpost [dot] com. Click to write a comment or read comments about this post. MinnPost.com Full RSS Articles brought to you by: MinnRoast 2011 — Journalists & politicians gently skewered Show Only tix just $25. Don’t miss a great event.

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MADRID (MarketWatch) — Bank of Spain Governor Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez on Monday said the government’s recently approved laws on bank capital requirements are vital to restoring confidence in the country’s financial institutions and markets. Speaking at a press conference, he said the setting up of the savings bank restructuring fund (FROB) and the transparency measures announced last year were key but the new laws were needed to help restore market confidence. He pointed out that Spain’s requirements for banks and cajas, or savings banks, to provision against bad loans is far stricter than the rest of Europe, and the situation is “very solid.” Ordonez also said Spanish cajas have €217 billion exposure to construction and that €100 billion of that could be problematic, according to Dow Jones Newswires. “We need to do more, but we also need to recognize what we have done,” he said, noting that the government has reduced the number of cajas to 17 from 45.

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A lot of people with bad credit have to apply for Personal unsecured Loans at high interest sub prime rates when they require financing. This is because the majority of the lenders consider them as borrowers of high risk. Apart from high interest rates, high fees and stringent loan terms are also imposed on such borrowers. A lot of lending firms are now offering smart loan products particularly for the bad credit loan market in the form of Personal Loans for People with Bad Credit. Many banking and lending institutions offer Loans via financing firms and are providing quick approvals to the people with poor credit.

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