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14 February 2012 - 7:18pmIn September 2011, a fuel explosion and fire in the Mukuru-Sinai slums of Nairobi, Kenya, killed more than 100 people and left another 100 with serious burns. The UN rushed a Rapid Environmental Emergency Assessment team to the scene, comprising experts from a Joint Environmental Unit run by OCHA and the... -
8 February 2012 - 5:49pm“In a world where so many of us have so much... one in seven people go to bed hungry every night,” the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, has said in a video tribute to the World Food Programme (WFP) on its fiftieth anniversary. WFP has led the global fight against hunger since... -
7 February 2012 - 3:58pmThe UN and its humanitarian partners have appealed for US$121 million to help Liberia cope with the large numbers of Ivorian refugees in the country’s impoverished south-east region. More than 120,000 Ivorian refugees who fled post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire now live in Liberia... -
6 February 2012 - 4:20pmFamine conditions are no longer present in Somalia, but the situation remains critical for at least 2.3 million people, the UN’s humanitarian aid chief has warned. “We must not forget that the progress made is fragile. Without continued and generous support from the international community,... -
3 February 2012 - 3:27pmThe UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos, urged the world not to let down its newest independent country, after she visited the centre of a major humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. Her comments came towards the end of a four-day visit, in which she witnessed the effects of...
