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9 December 2011 - 6:38pmThe UN and aid agencies appealed today for US$268 million to help feed 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe next year, as well as to address other urgent humanitarian needs. More than one in ten Zimbabweans will need food assistance in the first half of the year, and one million children under-five are... -
1 December 2011 - 6:25pmAlmost two years after the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti is showing signs of progress, but hundreds of thousands of people still need help, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Nigel Fisher has warned. Speaking to reporters in New York and Geneva ahead of the 2012 appeal launch for... -
28 October 2011 - 4:14pmThe United Nations called today for US$14.3 million to help 134,000 Nicaraguans deal with severe flooding over the next six months. “This emergency situation has been unfolding since 10 October and is still evolving. It is truly a disaster in the making,” says Mr. Pablo Mandeville, UN Resident... -
26 October 2011 - 3:43pmThe UN has called for US $15.7 million to help 300,000 El Salvadorians deal with catastrophic flooding over the next six months. The government has described the floods as the worst disaster in the country’s history, as hundreds of thousands of people struggle to cope with record-breaking rainfall... -
18 May 2011 - 11:13pmERC Amos today launched the Revised Regional Appeal for the Libyan Crisis in Geneva. The UN called for an additional US$233 million to assist as many as 2.1 million civilians affected by the conflict in Libya, and warned of a potential worsening of the humanitarian situation both within and outside the...
