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27 December 2011 - 10:54amEven as international military forces prepare to leave Afghanistan, aid organizations are still struggling to help millions of people cope with conflict, environmental hazards, fragile governance and underdevelopment. Humanitarian conditions have steadily deteriorated in recent years, due to conflict and... -
12 December 2011 - 4:36pmTwenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, 46/182, to establish a global humanitarian system. The resolution called for governments and aid agencies around the world to work together to deal with the rising number of crises. Two decades on, that system is more... -
6 December 2011 - 2:22pmNdolamb Ngokwey has been the Humanitarian Coordinator in Côte d’Ivoire since July 2010 and has served with the United Nations since 1986 - most recently as Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Mozambique. He also held many senior posts in UNICEF, including Deputy Regional... -
11 November 2011 - 12:41pmThree years after Mark Bowden first arrived in Somalia, he finds himself at the centre of the deepest and most acute humanitarian emergency in the world. On 20 July, a famine was declared in large parts of the south, and the situation has continued to deteriorate. Tens of thousands of people have died,... -
31 October 2011 - 1:14pmWorking as Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangui since October 2009, Bo Schack has seen new efforts to improve health, education and agriculture in the Central African Republic, after years of chronic neglect. Infant and maternal mortality rates remain amongst the highest in the world. But in recent years...
