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  • Mali: Now is the time to help people who have endured so much, says...
    26 February 2013 - 3:06pm
    Operations Director John Ging called on the international community to step up efforts to help hundreds of thousands of people in Mali who have suffered brutal violence and economic collapse since the start of the conflict in the north in early 2012. Mr. Ging, who visited Bamako, Mopti and Timbuktu last...
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  • Myanmar: Changing perceptions in Rakhine
    22 February 2013 - 4:17pm
    Tensions are still high in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, where inter-communal violence broke out eight months ago, leaving more than 115,000 people displaced and hundreds of homes burned.  In this tense atmosphere, misperceptions have arisen that humanitarian agencies are limiting aid to one...
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  • Somalia: Better access to people in need in the south
    20 February 2013 - 1:29pm
    UN agencies and humanitarian partners are reaching more people with much-needed healthcare services in parts of southern Somalia that were once inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity.  “The lack of health services in Somalia has the same effect as conflict; it displaces people,”...
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  • Syria: Don’t let the people of Syria down, appeals UN Humanitarian...
    19 February 2013 - 11:34am
    UN Humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos chaired the 7th Syria Humanitarian Forum in Geneva today, calling on the international community not to let the people of Syria down.  “We know that humanitarian action alone cannot solve the problems facing the Syrian people,” she told the media after...
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  • The Philippines: When the weather report saves lives
    15 February 2013 - 12:39pm
    Walking through the streets of the Cateel, on the eastern coast of Mindanao, the devastation left by Typhoon Bopha (known locally as Pablo) is evident everywhere. Most houses are covered by tarpaulins, debris fills the spaces where family homes once stood and the fragile structures of damaged houses...
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