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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
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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...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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World
(New York, 16 December 2011): More than 40 donors today pledged US$375 million to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). Since its launch in 2006, CERF, which has an annual funding target of US$450 million, has enabled life-saving and immediate help for millions of people in some 85 countries and territories.
“CERF has...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Secretary-General
Country:
World, El Salvador, Kenya, Pakistan, Somalia
SG/SM/14024
IHA/1297
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the High-level Conference on the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in New York on 16 December:
Five years ago, the United Nations General...
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
World
What is the Central Emergency Response
Fund?
The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is a humanitarian
fund established by the General Assembly in 2006 to enable
more timely and reliable humanitarian assistance to those
affected by natural disasters and armed conflicts. The Fund is
replenished annually...
Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country:
Niger (the), Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania
(Dakar, Sénégal – 15 December 2011) – Two years since the 2009/2010 severe Food and Nutrition crisis, several countries in the Sahel are again at high risk of developing serious food insecurity most likely by the first half of 2012.
With this background,...