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2 December 2011 - 2:30pmMaybe it's time to update the old cliché: after all, who reads 1,000 words these days? A toddler from Cote d'Ivoire bathes in a bucket - his family just one of thousands displaced in election-related violence in 2011. His expression... -- that's already over the limit for Twitter and... -
1 December 2011 - 6:25pmAlmost two years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti is showing signs of progress, but hundreds of thousands of people still need help, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Nigel Fisher has warned. Speaking to reporters in New York and Geneva ahead of the 2012 appeal launch for... -
30 November 2011 - 8:55pmUN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator (DERC) and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (ASG) Catherine Bragg yesterday concluded her four-day mission to Yemen, where she witnessed an intensifying humanitarian crisis in some parts of the country. “We are seeing chronic... -
29 November 2011 - 10:58pmAddressing the International Conference on the HOPEFOR Initiative in Doha, Qatar today, UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos highlighted the need to strengthen civil-military relations at a time when the world is facing greater humanitarian challenges and more and more governments respond to conflicts and... -
28 November 2011 - 3:49pmEmergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos said today she was “extremely concerned” by Al-Shabaab’s seizure of property and equipment belonging to several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and UN agencies working to alleviate suffering in southern Somalia. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki...
