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Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:38
The United Nations appealed on Monday for more than $2 billion to feed and care for a record 20 million people across Africa's Sahel belt, but aid workers said they feared donor fatigue and a weak global recovery may prevent them from reaching the target.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 09:03
Danish Refugee Council is working full speed in Western Ethiopia in order to secure water and proper conditions for more than 21.000 refugees from South Sudan.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 09:00
The crisis which broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 was the worst since independence. In the five weeks before a ceasefire was signed on Jan. 23, nearly 690,000 people were displaced and thousands killed.
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 07:38
The European Union may double aid to Gambia to 150 million euros (£122.8 million) over the next seven years, creating a split between EU members on whether to fund countries with poor human-rights records, diplomats said.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:20
With international attention focused on the conflict in South Sudan, the government of neighbouring Sudan has ratcheted up aerial bombings to stamp out an insurgency, targeting areas “clearly identifiable as civilian”, with no military presence, and resulting in the highest number of civilian casualties since the conflict began in 2011, according to a report released Tuesday.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 07:30
U.S. lawmakers expressed deep frustration on Wednesday over the wave of violence in South Sudan, questioning whether it made sense for Washington to continue sending hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the fledgling democracy.
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
More than a quarter of Colombia’s 1.4 million Indians have been forced to flee their tribal lands in recent decades, the head of the government’s programme to protect indigenous peoples has said
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 13:38
Uganda's president said on Monday east African nations had agreed to move in to defeat South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar if he rejected a ceasefire offer, threatening to turn an outburst of ethnic fighting into a regional conflict.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 07:40
Aid agencies paid Somali militant group Al-Shabaab for permission to deliver aid in areas controlled by the Islamist group during a famine, a report by two think-tanks said on Monday.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 08:05
Rebel governors who defected from Nigeria's ruling party merged their splinter group with the main opposition party on Tuesday, eroding the power base President Goodluck Jonathan would need for re-election.