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10 May 2012 - 11:49amSeven-year-old Pierre Laban lives in Savanne Ragé, a small village in Haiti´s Upper Artibonite region. As he was returning home from school one afternoon in March, Pierre started vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. His 64-year-old grandmother, Filise Pierre Louis, immediately started... -
8 May 2012 - 4:40pmDuring talks in Kabul, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, highlighted the continuing humanitarian needs of Afghans affected by conflict and natural disasters. Speaking today at a joint news conference with Wais Ahmad Barmak, Afghanistan’s Minister of... -
7 May 2012 - 5:17pmJawle camp lies on a windswept plain north of the town of Garowe, in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Some 1,500 displaced families from all over the country live in temporary shelters at the camp. Many have travelled great distances to escape conflict or severe food shortages in their... -
3 May 2012 - 7:07pmUN agencies and humanitarian partners are helping to support thousands of South Sudanese who are stranded in Kosti in Sudan’s White Nile State. The State Governor has called for the 12,000 – 15,000 stranded people, and the international organizations that are helping them, to leave... -
1 May 2012 - 4:21pmThe early warning systems and preparedness levels of several Indian Ocean countries were tested on 11 April when an 8.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued alerts in Indonesia, Thailand, India and Myanmar as soon as the earthquake struck...
