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  • CERF: Funding helps displaced families in Côte d’Ivoire
    5 July 2012 - 4:12pm
    Denis Bahou and his family are among tens of thousands of Ivorians who are still struggling to recover from last year’s post-election violence.  When the conflict claimed the lives of several of his close family members, Denis fled his home in Duékoué, western Côte d’...
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  • Abyei: Scaling up aid as displaced people return
    3 July 2012 - 11:54am
    As the security situation in the disputed region of Abyei improves, aid workers are gearing up to respond to the possible return of tens of thousands of displaced people who fled the area a year ago.  In May 2011, an estimated 110,000 people fled their homes and villages when the Sudanese Armed...
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  • UN launches a video on saving lives through preparedness
    2 July 2012 - 4:36pm
    OCHA and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new animation video highlighting the urgent need to invest more in preparing for and preventing natural disasters, which have claimed more than 1 million lives since 2000.     The video, Act Now, Save Later, is funded by OCHA and...
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