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23 August 2011 - 6:46amOn 19 August 2011, we celebrated World Humanitarian Day in New York and worldwide. The event honours humanitarian workers who lost their lives in the course of duty, celebrates the efforts of aid workers around the world, and calls on the world to urgently scale up the response to the crisis in the Horn of... -
20 August 2011 - 5:47amSouth Sudan’s historic declaration of independence passed with notable calm across the country on 9 July. However, the new born republic faces considerable humanitarian challenges as it looks to the future, including continued violence along its new and restive northern border, high levels of... -
15 August 2011 - 9:51amThe United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos today completed a three-day trip to Kenya and Somalia to draw international attention to the world's most serious food crisis. Somalia is the worst affected... -
12 August 2011 - 9:36amDeputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Catherine Bragg, shared some worrying statistics on the situation in Somalia with the United Nations Security Council on August 10. She told members that in some areas of Somalia, under-5 mortality rates had peaked at 13 per 10,000 people per day. To put that into... -
9 August 2011 - 10:07amAid agencies have almost doubled the amount requested to save lives in Somalia, calling for over US$ 1 billion. Famine is spreading in the drought- and conflict-stricken country but funding for relief remains worryingly low. The Consolidated Appeals Process, one of the international humanitarian community...
