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20 June 2012 - 11:05amTwo-year-old Arcade Maniragarura is one of many children affected by malnutrition in Burundi. Until May this year, Arcade, who has eight older siblings, was too weak to walk. In Burundi, nearly 1 million children under age 5 are chronically malnourished. According to UNICEF figures, Burundi has the world... -
8 June 2012 - 11:05amKaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and... -
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... -
25 May 2012 - 10:23amMore than 4,500 of the 12,000 South Sudanese who were stranded at the Sudanese river port of Kosti have completed their journey home. This comes just over a week into the airlift operation to transport the refugees via Khartoum. The Sudanese authorities gave South Sudanese residents nine months to... -
25 April 2012 - 12:02pmConflict and displacement in northern Mali are continuing to exacerbate the food and nutrition crisis throughout drought-affected areas of the Sahel region, OCHA has warned. “Across the region, more than 15 million people, including 3.5 million Malians, will be affected by severe food...
