by Richard Walden In April 1994–over a span of just 100 days–upwards of 500,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred in a spasm of ethnic violence, with ethnic Hutu neighbors killing Tutsi neighbors who had no protection from the Hutu-led Rwanda government. The US Government was nearly paralyzed as the genocide came just 2 years […]
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May 5, 2016 — On March 24, 2015, Operation USA and Honeywell opened the doors of Ngolos Honeywell Elementary School to more than 250 students in Guiuan. The small coastal community on the tip of Eastern Samar, in the Philippines, had been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Every person in the community […]
April 25, 2016 — On April 25, 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal. The tremor was the worst to hit the country in 80 years, and it caused massive damage across Nepal–which already faced challenging conditions before the disaster–killing more than 9,000 people and injuring more than 20,000 more. Less than a month […]
Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images April 18, 2016 On Saturday, April 16, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the northwestern coast of Ecuador, killing hundreds and injuring thousands. The quake–the worst to hit the country since 1987–leveled buildings, destroyed roads and bridges, damaged structures and triggered landslides. The earthquake also caused a subsequent tsunami warning for communities along […]