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12 February 2013 - 3:42pmAdam Abdul Haji, 19, left his home town of Jimma in Ethiopia with a group of friends to find work in Saudi Arabia. That dream came to an abrupt end when he was seriously injured in a car accident in Yemen and abandoned by the side of the road. Two months later, he is still receiving treatment at a... -
11 February 2013 - 4:40pmIn a frigid two-room apartment in the Damascus suburb of Saboura, Fatimah fights back the tears. It’s been six months since she and her family fled their home under the cloak of night. Six months since she saw neighbours and friends, six months since she last watered the rose bushes that grew in her... -
11 February 2013 - 9:26amAn estimated 6.4 million people across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are food insecure, including 2 million children who are acutely malnourished. About 2.7 million people, mostly affected by recurrent conflict in the east of the country, are internally displaced. In November 2012, heavy... -
7 February 2013 - 3:48pmUN agencies and humanitarian partners appealed today for US$892.6 million to help millions of people affected by food insecurity, conflict and disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) 2013, which was launched in DRC’s capital Kinshasa, will... -
6 February 2013 - 1:28pmIn 2012, aid organizations warned that about 18 million people were affected by the food and nutrition crisis across West Africa’s Sahel region. Drought, poor food production and chronic poverty left many families dependent on aid to cope with the crisis in nine countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali,...
