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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Burkina Faso, Mali
23 March 2012:As a result of recent instability in Mali, thousands of people have fled their homes. As of 7 March 2012, some 82,000 Malians have been internally displaced and more than 90,000 people have sought refuge in other countries, including some 21,653 people who have fled to the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.
The...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Haiti
(Port-au-Prince/27 March 2012) - The Government of Haiti and its humanitarian partners express their deep concern over the lack of financial resources at their disposal for continued humanitarian operations and for sudden onset disaster response. This scarcity of resources is curtailing their ability to fully provide frontline services to the most...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Mali
14 March 2012: the 2011-2012 growing season in Mali has been devastated by a lack of rain, leading to a drop in agricultural productivity and reduced grazing sources for livestock, threatening the livelihoods of millions of small farmers and agro-pastoralists.
The national early warning system indicates that roughly 3.5 million people have...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Cameroon
2 March 2012: The north of Cameroon is located in the Sahel region and experienced droughts in 2009 and 2011 and floods in 2010. Each of these years has resulted in a high degree of crop failure, leaving the population with limited or nonexistent stocks for the lean season and increasing the gap between food production and food needs. An...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Central African Republic (the)
(Bangui/Geneva/New York, 17 February 2012) The Central African Republic is one of the lowest profile humanitarian crises on the African continent. Today the Government and humanitarian partners launched the Central African Republic Consolidated Appeal in Bangui, consisting of 105 projects spanning 12 months to save lives...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Philippines (the)
(Manila, Bangkok, Geneva, New York: 3 February 2012): The United Nations and its humanitarian partners issued today the second emergency revision of the Humanitarian Action Plan for Mindanao, responding to the dramatic increase of needs in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Washi, known locally as Sendong. The revised appeal seeks $39...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
(Kinshasa / New York, 26 January 2012): The humanitarian community in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received today a new financial boost of USD 9.1 million from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund to fight off cholera, a water-borne disease that has affected over 22,000 people and killed over...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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South Sudan (Republic of), Central African Republic (the), Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the), Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Djibouti, Eritrea, Haiti, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines (the), Syrian Arab Republic (the)...
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UN Department of Public Information, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Côte d'Ivoire, Sudan (the)
Côte d’Ivoire needed $173 million in humanitarian aid for the millions of people still struggling to survive since post-election violence rocked the West African nation in late 2010, a senior United Nations relief official said this afternoon.
“Now is not the time...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Côte d'Ivoire
New York, 24 January 2012
I am very pleased to be here today to brief you on the humanitarian situation in Côte d’Ivoire and my mission.
I would also like to mention that we have the honour of the presence of the Côte d’Ivoire Minister of State, Minister of Employment, Social Services and Solidarity, His Excellency Gilbert...