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27 March 2013 - 5:17pmOCHA Operations Director John Ging concluded his first visit to the Philippines on Monday, urging the international community to step up their efforts to help the Government meet the needs of people affected by Typhoon Bopha. The typhoon, which was the deadliest storm anywhere in the world in 2012, hit the... -
26 March 2013 - 4:58pmIn the village of Btoata in western Darfur, Jamiya has found a sustainable way to store her family’s newly harvested crops after returning home from years of displacement. She uses a dabanga, which is a large storage vessel used to preserve food. In the nearby village of Shushta, Ashta has started... -
26 February 2013 - 3:06pmOperations Director John Ging called on the international community to step up efforts to help hundreds of thousands of people in Mali who have suffered brutal violence and economic collapse since the start of the conflict in the north in early 2012. Mr. Ging, who visited Bamako, Mopti and Timbuktu last... -
22 February 2013 - 4:17pmTensions are still high in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, where inter-communal violence broke out eight months ago, leaving more than 115,000 people displaced and hundreds of homes burned. In this tense atmosphere, misperceptions have arisen that humanitarian agencies are limiting aid to one... -
20 February 2013 - 1:29pmUN agencies and humanitarian partners are reaching more people with much-needed healthcare services in parts of southern Somalia that were once inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity. “The lack of health services in Somalia has the same effect as conflict; it displaces people,”...
