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29 March 2012 - 5:19pmMongolia regularly suffers from extreme weather conditions. The crisis is known locally as a dzud—a complex, long-lasting natural disaster in which a summer drought is followed by heavy snowfall and unusually low temperatures in winter. But the most recent dzud, which happened... -
27 March 2012 - 9:59pmThe UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated almost US$5 million to support a national immunization campaign to protect 7.9 million Yemeni children under age 10 from a deadly measles outbreak. Measles has re-emerged in epidemic proportions in Yemen, claiming the lives of more than 155... -
9 March 2012 - 2:54amHasina* lives in a village near Sibi in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. She was ill during her pregnancy, but her family and friends discouraged her from seeking medical attention. Some of them found it embarrassing to see a doctor during pregnancy for privacy reasons, while others were concerned... -
2 March 2012 - 1:01amThe Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) faces multiple crises including attacks by armed groups, massive displacement, food insecurity and disease outbreaks. Approximately 1.8 million people remain displaced, mostly in eastern DRC, due to conflict. Last year, measles and cholera epidemics claimed more... -
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...
