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  • The Philippines: "I always fear the floods will sweep my...
    1 November 2011 - 3:53pm
    Mariam Usman has just rebuilt her home on wooden stilts, and the memory of the floods that swallowed her village in June is still fresh. “I always fear that the floods will sweep my children away,” says Ms Usman. A 36-year-old mother of six, she has good reason to be anxious. The small...
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  • The HC Interview: Central African Republic
    31 October 2011 - 1:14pm
    Working as Humanitarian Coordinator in Bangui since October 2009, Bo Schack has seen new efforts to improve health, education and agriculture in the Central African Republic, after years of chronic neglect. Infant and maternal mortality rates remain amongst the highest in the world. But in recent years...
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  • Central America Floods: UN launches US$14.3m appeal for Nicaragua
    28 October 2011 - 4:14pm
    The United Nations called today for US$14.3 million to help 134,000 Nicaraguans deal with severe flooding over the next six months. “This emergency situation has been unfolding since 10 October and is still evolving. It is truly a disaster in the making,” says Mr. Pablo Mandeville, UN Resident...
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  • Humanitarian Issues: Should more be done to protect the internally...
    27 October 2011 - 12:09pm
    The UN Security Council (UNSC) should be doing more to address the problems facing people displaced by conflict, a new study by Brookings and the London School of Economics has found. The UNSC referred to internal displacement in 19 per cent of its resolutions from 1999-2010, the report said. However,...
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  • Central America Floods: UN launches US$15.7m appeal for El Salvador
    26 October 2011 - 3:43pm
    The UN has called for US $15.7 million to help 300,000 El Salvadorians deal with catastrophic flooding over the next six months. The government has described the floods as the worst disaster in the country’s history, as hundreds of thousands of people struggle to cope with record-breaking rainfall...
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