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31 October 2011 - 1:14pmWorking 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... -
28 October 2011 - 4:14pmThe 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... -
27 October 2011 - 12:09pmThe 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,... -
26 October 2011 - 3:43pmThe 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... -
25 October 2011 - 3:44pmOn the night of 28 June, a heavy downpour almost swallowed Imbelbellou – a village of 7000 inhabitants in a precarious valley in the Maradi region of southern Niger. Maradi is Niger’s most populous region, and the country’s breadbasket, but is prone to natural disasters and vulnerable to...
