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  • South-East Asia Floods: Cambodia on high alert
    20 October 2011 - 5:33pm
    The worst floods in a more than a decade have devastated large areas of Cambodia, causing 247 deaths, displacing 46,000 households and disrupting the lives of 1.2 million people. The crisis is part of a region-wide emergency, in which seasonal rains and back-to-back typhoons have caused flooding across SE...
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  • Côte d'Ivoire: The emergency is not yet over
    19 October 2011 - 8:15pm
    The humanitarian crisis in Côte d’Ivoire needs an urgent boost in international funding, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator said on Wednesday, during a European tour to draw more attention to the country’s fragile recovery. More than 194,000 people are internally displaced, and more...
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  • The HC Interview: Haiti
    18 October 2011 - 3:34pm
    Since April 2010, Nigel Fisher has led a massive relief operation to help millions of Haitians overcome a string of devastating disasters.  On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed vast parts of the capital city of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas – killing several hundred...
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  • DRC: Accelerating response to cholera crisis
    17 October 2011 - 2:35pm
    National authorities, the UN and aid agencies are accelerating their response to multiple cholera outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of a region-wide effort to curb an epidemic across western and central Africa. In the western DRC, more than 7,000 people have fallen ill and 390 people...
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  • Yemen: Children face food shortages and lack of education
    14 October 2011 - 7:33pm
    The growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen has alarming consequences for the education and wellbeing of tens of thousands of children, a new OCHA Situation Report on the emergency highlighted today. “Throughout Yemen, children’s access is challenged by the occupation of schools by internally...
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