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31 May 2012 - 2:42pmThe local authorities in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the Philippines have taken the lead in the cluster system as the humanitarian community continues to help people who were forced from their homes by Tropical Storm Washi. The cluster system is aimed at improving the delivery of... -
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 - 4:02pmHumanitarian Chief Valerie Amos wrapped up a four-day visit to Burkina Faso and Senegal calling for strong leadership and comprehensive response plans, as well as generosity from donors, to avoid the food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region becoming a catastrophe. “The humanitarian situation is... -
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... -
23 May 2012 - 2:03pmConditions in Yemen are deteriorating; nearly half of Yemenis are food insecure and almost 1 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. This was the message of the Yemen Humanitarian Country Team to Wednesday’s meeting of the Friends of Yemen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. “If we do not act...
