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  • Niger: How rapid coordination saved lives during the flooding of...
    25 October 2011 - 3:44pm
    On 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...
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  • Sudan: Aid agencies face extremely limited access in conflict-torn...
    24 October 2011 - 11:14pm
    Humanitarian organizations continue to face extremely limited access to people who urgently help in Sudan, a new map produced by OCHA highlighted today. 330,000 people may have been displaced or otherwise severely affected by recent conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, on the border between Sudan...
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