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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Myanmar
24 January 2012 : After more than a decade of cease-fire, more than 50,000 people have been displaced in Kachin State by recent fighting - the majority of whom are children and women. As skirmishes moved close to villages, people fled their homes, carrying few household possessions with them. Internally displaced people have sought refuge in...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Cameroon
18 January 2012: CERF has allocated $2 million. Since 2 November 2011, a yellow fever epidemic has hit the North Region of Cameroon. More than 20 cases of yellow fever have been reported in eight of the 15 districts of the Region. More than 1.2 million people in Cameroon are at risk of the disease and there is concern of its spread to...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Côte d'Ivoire
(Abidjan / Geneva, 18 January 2012) - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Catherine Bragg, today concluded her three-day visit to Côte d’Ivoire, while reiterating her appeal to donors to ensure continuity of funding throughout 2012.
“Assistance to the most...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Côte d'Ivoire
When Nestor Gonkapieu heard gunshots ring out in his village in December 2010, he didn’t wait to see who was shooting before running for cover. “In 2002, the same sound preceded a massacre here,” he remembers.
Nestor’s daughter, Cyprienne, was playing outside the village with other children. Nestor says he panicked and fled west from...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Chad, Sudan (the)
10 January 2012: The 2011 agricultural season in Chad was negatively affected by drought and pests attacks. Food insecurity has been further exacerbated by the Libyan crisis in 2011 which caused the repatriation of more than 90,000 Chadians to the Sahel Region. The sudden influx of thousands of people resulted in the loss of...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the)
30 December 2011: The Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated US$427,131 to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the management of severe acute malnutrition in 25 vulnerable counties in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK).
CERF funds will be used to cover the supply needs for...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Philippines (the)
Tropical Storm Washi made landfall on 16 December 2011on the north-eastern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. The storm affected 190 barangays (villages or wards), eight cities and 30 municipalities in thirteen Provinces across six Regions. The biggest impact was seen in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in Region X in Northern...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Philippines (the)
(Mindanao, 3 January 2012): The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator (UN HC) for the Philippines Jacqui Badcock is impressed by the humanitarian response that has been mobilized to help thousands of people left homeless by flash floods caused by Tropical Storm Sendong.
“As tragic as this disaster is, I am heartened by the...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Philippines (the)
(Mindanao/New York, 28 October 2011): Emergency operations in shelter, water and sanitation food, and logistics, are underway on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines in the week after flash flooding caused by Tropical Storm Washi washed away entire villages.
The tropical storm, known locally as Sendong, sent torrents of...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Philippines (the)
(Manila/New York, 21 December 2011): The United Nations and its partners are rapidly
mobilizing resources to assist the Government of the Philippines in helping the nearly half a
million people affected by Tropical Storm Washi.
The tropical storm, known locally as Sendong, swept across the Mindanao region from 16 to...