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More funding is needed to avert a humanitarian disaster in Africa's Sahel region where up to 14 million people are suffering from food shortages, the international Red Cross said on Tuesday.
Source: AFP
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United Nations officials are meeting with humanitarian organizations and donor governments Wednesday to discuss ways to prevent a major food crisis in Africa's Sahel region.
Source: Voice of America News
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A drought that destroyed the majority of the harvest in the region has ravaged the country for months, causing rural populations to start running out of food in early February, a good six months before the next rains – if they fall this year.
Source: Newstime Africa
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Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after they were declared, but the situation remains dire with nearly a third of the population needing emergency support, the UN said on Friday.
Source: Times Live
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Somali insurgents have shut down food aid distribution by a major aid group because they say the organisation is distributing spoiled food...
Source: Times Live
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Nearly six years after it was created, Madonna's Raising Malawi charity is set to break ground on the construction of schools...
Source: Times Live
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Two major medical centres run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Somali capital have closed.
Source: BBC News
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A bomb exploded in a Somali displaced persons' camp Thursday, shortly after a group of international journalists were in the area.
Source: VOice of America
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Nearly a year after the crisis, more than 186,000 Ivorians remain displaced within the country...
Source: OCHA
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had suspended food distribution to 1.1 million people...
Source: Times Live
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The UN's top official in South Sudan on Saturday said "no evidence" had been found of reported mass killings, but warned that 60 000 people were in urgent need of aid.
Source: News24
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Two aid workers shot dead in the Somali capital have been identified as Belgian and Indonesian nationals...MSF said one of their workers shot Belgian Philippe Havet, 53, and Indonesian Andrias Karel Keiluhu, 44.
Source: BBC News
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Egyptian border police have detained 52 African migrants in the past 24 hours after they attempted to cross into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said on Monday.
Source: News 24
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Two U.N. World Food Programme workers and a third colleague from a local agency were shot to death in Somalia Friday, the organization said.
Source: CNN
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Despite the myriad problems facing the country, some of these scenes reveal in them the promise that Somalia is still a living and battling nation that can dust itself out of the ruins.
Source: Think Africa Press
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WFP has launched a helicopter air service to deliver urgently needed food assistance to camps in Ethiopia hosting Somali refugees.
Source: World Food Programme
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Al-Shabaab rebels banned some UN and international aid agencies from working in Somalia on Monday and began seizing and looting some of their offices...
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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UN chief condemns attack that left two other peacekeepers wounded while on patrol and urges Khartoum to ensure justice.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Brief biography of prominent blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, summoned on Sunday by military prosecutors to answer charges of incitement to violence
Source: Ahram Online
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llegal gold mining has left at least 2 000 children with lead poisoning in several northern Nigerian villages, where 400 children have already died from contamination, an official said on Friday.
Source: News 24
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