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3 October 2012 - 3:10pmHumanitarian organizations have reported that up to 40,000 refugees affected by conflict and food shortages in Sudan could arrive in South Sudan by the end of the year, after the heavy rains and flooding subside. Since the conflict broke out in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile regions in... -
1 October 2012 - 2:30pmTwenty-two-year-old Alice Furaha was five months’ pregnant when she fled her home in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in May. This year, fighting between the Government and rebel groups has forced hundreds of thousands of Congolese to flee to neighbouring countries. When Alice... -
21 September 2012 - 4:49pmDecades of conflict, massive displacement, chronic poverty and food insecurity affect millions of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The number of people displaced by violence in the vast Central African country has risen by more than 25 per cent to 2.24 million people since the... -
28 August 2012 - 1:10pmOn World Humanitarian Day this year (19 August) we celebrated the most basic principle of humanitarian work: People Helping People. For inspiration, and to remind everyone of the extraordinary things ordinary people are capable of doing, we asked professional aid workers to tell us a story about someone... -
9 August 2012 - 1:47pmThe UN Humanitarian Chief, Valerie Amos, called today for more support for Congolese communities affected by conflict and displacement, at the end of a four-day mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. In Eastern DRC’s North Kivu Province, nearly a quarter of a...
