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  • Lesotho: UN appeals for nearly $39 million to address food crisis
    28 September 2012 - 1:12pm
    United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners launched an appeal today (28 September) for US$38.9 million to respond to the food security crisis affecting some 725,000 people in Lesotho.  “The humanitarian situation in Lesotho is bad,” said the country’s Prime Minister, Thomas...
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  • CERF: UN allocates US$104 million to 13 of the world's most...
    25 January 2012 - 3:20pm
    The UN has allocated US$104 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to bolster aid operations in 13 of the world’s most neglected and under-funded humanitarian crises. “Millions of people need help around the world in places which have fallen out of the headlines,” said...
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  • Niger: How rapid coordination saved lives during the flooding of...
    25 October 2011 - 3:44pm
    On the night of 28 June, a heavy downpour almost swallowed Imbelbellou – a village of 7000 inhabitants in a precarious valley in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Maradi is Niger’s most populous region, and the country’s breadbasket, but is prone to natural disasters and vulnerable to...
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