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  • Syria: Ordinary people are paying a terrible price, says Valerie Amos
    23 January 2013 - 5:32pm
    United Nations Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos called today (23 Jan) on the international community to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria which continues to claim more lives and to displace more people. She said aid organizations desperately need more resources to respond to the crisis....
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  • CERF: US$100 million for neglected crises
    23 January 2013 - 2:37pm
    The UN humanitarian chief has announced the allocation of some US$100 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide life-saving aid to people in 12 poorly- funded emergencies, ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen. “Millions of people continue to need help around the world after...
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  • Kenya: Promoting preparedness before the elections
    23 January 2013 - 2:02pm
    Kenya goes to the polls in March, and humanitarian agencies are gearing up in case there is any repetition of the violence that followed the previous elections in 2007-8. OCHA Eastern Africa is coordinating the humanitarian elements of a contingency plan led by Kenya’s National Disaster Operations...
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  • Kenya: Ethnic clashes in the run up to elections
    21 January 2013 - 4:55pm
    Houses set ablaze, women and children killed, a student shot dead on his way to school, thousands fleeing with nothing more than the shirts on their backs - these were the scenes in Kenya’s Tana Delta region in recent weeks as ethnic clashes broke out again. Humanitarian agencies are responding to...
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  • DRC: Addressing the most urgent needs in the east
    18 January 2013 - 11:31pm
    UN agencies and humanitarian partners have appealed for $30.5 million to help more than half a million people displaced by conflict in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some 150,000 of these people fled their homes after heavy fighting last November. The North Kivu Response Plan,...
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