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  • Mali: Growing concern for displaced people in the north
    12 April 2012 - 11:56pm
    UN agencies and NGO partners are seriously concerned about the fate of displaced people in northern Mali. The security situation has deteriorated since a coup in the capital, Bamako, on 22 March and a rebellion in the north nearly two weeks ago. According to the latest report by OCHA’s Regional...
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  • The Sahel: Fleeing from conflict at home, Malian refugees find a food...
    16 February 2012 - 7:47pm
    In the cool, early hours, before the unrelenting sun rises over the Sahara, humanitarian workers leave Niger’s capital, Niamey, and set off for an assessment mission to the border village of Sinegodar, which is close to the Mali-Niger border. The village is a four-hour drive on a bumpy, desert road...
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  • The Sahel: UN agencies call for urgent scale-up of aid
    15 February 2012 - 5:09pm
    Heads of UN agencies, representatives from affected governments and major donors today called for an urgent scale up of humanitarian aid to help millions of people affected by hunger and malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa. In a joint statement issued at an emergency meeting at the World Food...
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