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  • South Sudan: Number of people needing aid doubles
    20 January 2012 - 11:22am
    The UN confirmed today that more than 120,000 people urgently need aid in South Sudan’s violence-affected Jonglei State - double the amount from just two weeks ago. “The violence in Jonglei hasn’t stopped,” said Lise Grande, Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan. “Only two...
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  • Stepping up the response in the Horn of Africa
    30 July 2011 - 4:43am
    UN agencies and humanitarian partners are rallying to provide life-saving assistance to 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa, but needs are rising. “This will not be a short crisis,” Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos warned at an Emergency Ministerial Meeting held in...
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  • Somalia: United Nations declares famine in two regions
    20 July 2011 - 10:49pm
    On 20 July, at a press conference in Nairobi, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, declared that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in...
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