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16 January 2012 - 4:28pmSixty-year old Madeleine Doué, a widow and mother of six, fled Blody, her village in Moyen Cavally, in December 2010 and settled at the Catholic Mission in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire last year. The camp offered Mrs. Doué and her family security as well as access... -
13 January 2012 - 4:06pmA large-scale emergency operation is gearing up to provide food, water and shelter to 60,000 people in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, amid continued clashes between two of the region’s largest ethnic groups. New fighting broke out in late December 2011 between the Murle and the Lou Nuer... -
11 January 2012 - 8:20pmTwo years ago, a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, leaving in its wake a trail of massive destruction including more than 200,000 people dead and 2.3 million people displaced. One of the largest humanitarian responses ever mounted was launched to provide assistance to the survivors of the most... -
11 January 2012 - 1:26pmIn October 2011, as large parts of Pakistan’s Sindh Province lay devastated by flooding, Mai Rasheeda Qambrani was in severe pain. She was in the last month of pregnancy - her sixth in 10 years - but Rasheeda had not experienced any baby movements for a week. She needed urgent medical attention.... -
10 January 2012 - 7:24pmIn December 2011, Al Shabaab released a press release stipulating that “the United Nations has… confirmed its full commitment to supporting the Kenyan invasion of Somalia by funding Kenyan operations now under AMISOM…” “[Therefore,] we do not recognize the United Nations,...
