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29 May 2012 - 12:49pmThe diarrhoea and vomiting started before dawn. By 8 am, 12 year old Steward Okoulokami was weak and losing weight. His panicked father, Dimitri, packed Steward into a canoe and took him to the Congolese capital, Brazzaville. “In the morning around 8am, when I looked at my son, he had lost a lot of... -
27 March 2012 - 9:59pmThe UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated almost US$5 million to support a national immunization campaign to protect 7.9 million Yemeni children under age 10 from a deadly measles outbreak. Measles has re-emerged in epidemic proportions in Yemen, claiming the lives of more than 155... -
19 March 2012 - 7:05pmIt is a quiet afternoon in Selimbey, one of the many deserted districts in the outskirts of Van in south-east Turkey, which is still recovering from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook the city in October 2011. Parts of Van are still deserted. But amid the ruins, some families do not have the resources... -
27 February 2012 - 7:15pmOn the road to the small town of Recula, in Colombia’s Córdoba region, a cow forages for food in fields that have become lakes. More than 210,000 people in the region have been affected by some of the worst flooding in Colombia’s history. Across the country, more than 2 million people... -
16 December 2011 - 8:48pmMore than 40 donors today pledged US$375 million to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) contributing to a $16 million increase in pledges for next year. Since its launch in 2006, CERF, which has an annual funding target of $450 million, has enabled aid to reach millions of people...
