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SOMALIA: Humanitarian crisis deepens as Beletweyne control shifts
Nairobi :: Kenya | about 19 hours ago
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The town has been alternating between falling under the control of government forces and Islamist insurgents, who have been fighting in the area. The journalist said this had adversely affected the population as "aid agencies are unable to operate properly...
Tags: Beletweyne, Haji Abdulle Mumin, humanitarian crisis, Mumino Haji, Kenya, Nairobi, World Food Programme, IRIN, Internally displaced person, Somalia, Poverty, Humanitarian aid, Malnutrition, Social Issues
Africa: World's Largest Humanitarian Network
Nairobi :: Kenya | 6 days ago
Credibility G20 perceive today’s top challenges in the humanitarian field. It shows that climate change, a lack of humanitarian access, armed conflict, increased poverty and hunger, and ongoing disregard for international humanitarian law (IHL) top the list of their...
Tags: climate change, red cross, Kenya, Nairobi, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Humanitarian principles, International humanitarian law, Battle of Solferino, Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, Environment, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, International Committee of the Red Cross, Disaster, Humanitarianism, International organizations, Disasters, Disaster Accident, Humanitarian crisis, Scientific opinion on climate change, Development, Aid, Social Issues
LIFE IN A CAGE- (a true story!)
Livestock have better accomodations than those impoverished in Hong Kong. It's hard enough living with anyone, even your spouse. Imagine sharing a 600 square foot room with 19 strangers with individual cages stacked three deep. Each are 5 by 3 feet...
Tags: Hong Kong, cage dwellers, cage people, living in a cage, living in cage in Hong Kong, poverty, poverty in Hong Kong, political news, world news, Tokyo and Osaka, real estate, welfare, retirement, Society for Community Organization, Germany, humanitarian crisis, China, public housing, social security, slums, bed-space dwellers, East Asian urban dwellers, U.N, health, social reform, Japan
Somali Militants Lure Americans for Recruitment
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
Credibility Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington was concerned al-Shabab uses foreign fighters and there was no doubt the group wants to take control of Somalia and "launch attacks against countries far and near." Experts say Western recruits'...
Tags: Somalia, Somalis, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian aid, need humanitarian, worst humanitarian
Pakistan army hunting high-value targets
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Thursday that high-value targets are being aggressively hunted in Swat valley in the northwest. He said that major population centers and roads leading to the Swat valley in North West Frontier...
Tags: Pakistani, Amir Maulana Sufi Muhammad, Richard Holbrooke, Mr. Holbrooke, Taliban, Islamabad, humanitarian crisis, Sharif
Amnesty seek protection for civilians and captured fighters in Sri Lanka
As the war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) reaches its final hours and the humanitarian crisis unfolds, Amnesty International is calling for key steps to be adopted to ensure civilians and captured fighters...
Tags: humanitarian crisis
Obama condemns Sri Lanka fighting, urges aid
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 6 months ago
Credibility Obama criticized the Tigers for using civilians as "human shields" and urged them to surrender and let civilians go. But he also called on the island's government to stop using heavy weapons in the conflict zone, which has shrunk to just a few square...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Barack Obama, Tamil Tigers, sri lankan, grave concerned, president barack, using president, humanitarian crisis, United Nations Security Council, UN Security Council
Sudan, Chad trade accusations of aiding rebels
Khartoum :: Sudan | 6 months ago
Credibility Sudan and its neighbor Chad accused each other on Friday of aiding rebels determined to topple their respective governments as fears grew that a new peace deal signed by Khartoum and N'Djamena could collapse. The two countries signed an agreement in...
Tags: Chad, South Sudan, North Darfur, prevent humanitarian, Darfuri, humanitarian crisis, urgent international, international action, decisive victory, action needed
NWFP may face humanitarian crisis: Red Cross
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Staff Report ISLAMABAD: The International Red Cross has warned that the NWFP is looking at a humanitarian crisis and that the affected areas are outside its reach. An estimated half a million people have fled the Taliban-army fighting in Swat, Buner and...
Tags: swat valley, crossfire, Red Cross, humanitarian crisis, Taliban
Sri Lanka: US should think of gunboat diplomacy
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 6 months ago
Credibility US should think of gunboat diplomacy' [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 May 2009, 03:31 GMT] It is the last chance for US to strike a political balance in the island, if it is really keen in seeing meaningful post-conflict' process, said TamilNet's political...
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