Some officials have accused aid agencies of supporting the insurgents.
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However, aid agencies often struggle to reach people in need.
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We encourage them and recommend aid agencies to help them.
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The aid agencies were told to evacuate by Tuesday night.
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Funding could come from aid agencies and the private sector.
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Fleurant is in charge of the oversight of aid agencies.
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Malaria is a threat, too, but aid agencies are optimistic.
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The other sort advertises the splendid work done by aid agencies.
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International aid agencies in South Sudan are in a tough position.
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Aid agencies have struggled to make deliveries into the besieged city.
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We asked aid agencies to name their 3 priorities for 2019.
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Aid agencies hope to get more food aid in on Thursday.
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Aid agencies working in Nigeria faced a funding crisis, he said.
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Aid agencies say they are restricted by a lack of funding.
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Aid agencies talk about the possibility of nearly 1 million refugees.
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Aid agencies express caution as the island is prone to flooding.
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Cases of malaria are also expected, but aid agencies are optimistic.
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Huzayfah: Then I got a hold of these aid agencies, right?
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Others stood in line to receive food packages from aid agencies.
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United Nations aid agencies gave the EU deal a cautious welcome.
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The aid agencies began to do more or less as they pleased.
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The city is guarded, and aid agencies provide food, shelter and medicine.
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Aid agencies, the Bangladeshi authorities and the Rohingya have been coping heroically.
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Buckling under the epidemic, aid agencies flocked to help contain the virus.
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The aid agencies that used to buy printers from him are gone.
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Aid agencies and media have often warned of China's "looming" AIDS crisis.
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Aid agencies say refugees are still arriving, though at a slower pace.
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Aid agencies struggle to feed and treat even the most urgent cases.
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Western-funded aid agencies repair infrastructure, hospitals and schools in the region.
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Western-funded aid agencies have built a handful of secret hospitals underground.
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For that, governments and aid agencies have to invest more in children.
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Aid agencies did not say whether the planes were Syrian or Russian.
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Here are some of the aid agencies trying to help the Rohingya.
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Aid agencies estimate as many as 1 million people remain inside Mosul.
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In Cagayan, aid agencies say that early evacuations may have saved lives.
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One of the main government aid agencies, USAID, funds the PREDICT program.
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It is also the kind of needy that entices aid agencies and charities.
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Yet it soon became clear that aid agencies would not easily be corralled.
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Aid agencies say they have limited access to areas caught in the fighting.
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Here, international aid agencies have some of their most crucial, and remote, outposts.
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Aid agencies are finding that the impact has been far greater than expected.
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Understandably, aid agencies have to make tough decisions on where to allocate funding.
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Aid agencies are bracing for what they fear could be a humanitarian catastrophe.
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For now, some are being looked after by aid agencies such as Unicef.
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Aid agencies said curbing emissions was key to preventing climate-change related disasters.
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Thousands of civilians took the opportunity to flee the city, overwhelming aid agencies.
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Myanmar has restricted access to the conflict zone for most international aid agencies.
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Dozens of donor nations and aid agencies were invited but no Rohingya refugees.
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Few aid agencies are present in the camp, and none provide regular food.
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And it's not the only crisis that aid agencies are scrambling to address.
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As aid agencies struggle to manage contracts, they have turned to the private sector.
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Myanmar's government is still limiting access for aid agencies and journalists to the area.
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A record 5,000 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean last year, aid agencies have said.
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Many aid agencies do not want to deliver supplies to dangerous, rebel-held territories.
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Aid agencies need be alert to the risk that it causes inflation, for example.
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Within hours, the aid agencies suspended their activities and evacuated most of their staff.
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Aid agencies said it was easier to access international funding by working with migrants.
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Aid agencies have said nearly 150,000 people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies.
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Aid agencies welcomed the ICAI report, saying cash transfers gave families autonomy and choice.
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Aid agencies say they are overwhelmed and cannot provide enough food, water or shelter.
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Both the government and foreign aid agencies are beginning to focus on food processing.
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At the London meeting, 14 aid agencies called for action on the humanitarian crisis.
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Where aid agencies do give cash, the cluster system has made its delivery chaotic.
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That has raised warnings from aid agencies that Yemen&aposs humanitarian disaster could deepen.
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At the London meeting, 14 aid agencies called for action on the humanitarian crisis.
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Small wonder that, as the bitter winter looms, aid agencies fear another humanitarian crisis.
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Aid agencies in Kenya and beyond have struggled to respond to the latest announcement.
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According to Reuters, aid agencies are also having difficulty finding accommodations for the migrants.
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The decision sparked criticism from aid agencies, opposition lawmakers and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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It takes all types of aid agencies to provide disaster relief and recovery services.
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Nonetheless, they can still test the ability of governments and aid agencies to respond.
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If the government does not act quickly, aid agencies warned, things could get worse.
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Jeffrey Buchanan of the Army, would work with federal aid agencies on the response.
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Journalists and aid agencies, previously banned, are now free to work in the region.
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She gives her baby fortified porridge, provided by aid agencies, three times a day.
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Technology is not only helping aid agencies respond to disasters, but to mitigate them.
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One more occurred on an unoccupied Oxfam office on Tuesday morning, aid agencies said.
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Aid agencies are frantically fundraising; the UN says that another $220bn is needed by July.
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But aid agencies protest that Aden's current capacity is insufficient to feed the entire country.
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The government also rejected the accusation, saying aid agencies deliberately exaggerated crises to increase funding.
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Next, Western aid agencies should not be so wary of co-operating with the Chinese.
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Other aid agencies are best suited to focus more on individual needs in specific areas.
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That means it can be used safely by aid agencies and countries for bulk purchasing.
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Aid agencies say the scale of bombardment in the north west risks further humanitarian disaster.
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Aid agencies and government officials estimate as many as 600 migrants have converged on Calais.
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U.N. officials and aid agencies opposed the plan, saying conditions in Myanmar were not safe.
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Aid agencies use the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system to determine food security.
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In the meantime the ceasefire would be extended and aid agencies given access, he said.
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She added that registration allows aid agencies to assess needs and thus better distribute aid.
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Now "zai" have been adopted by aid agencies working to prevent hunger in the region.
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And so we have Lesotho today — echoing Malthus, not the future intended by aid agencies.
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Nearly 9,123, mostly Africans, were rescued over the long Easter weekend, U.N. aid agencies said.
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And third, it pays voluntarily for perennially underfunded aid agencies like the World Food Program.
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More than 31,000 people have fled from the rebel-held eastern districts, aid agencies say.
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Since aid agencies didn't coordinate, some villages got tons of houses while others got nothing.
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Aid agencies say nearly 400,000 children suffering severe acute malnutrition are fighting for their lives.
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The army demolished at least 20 refugee homes on Monday, seven global aid agencies said.
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Aid agencies received less than half the money they requested for aid for Somalia in 2015.
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But most aid agencies are reluctant to deliver food in areas held by murderous jihadists anyway.
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Aid agencies have warned of widespread starvation in Madaya, where some 40,000 people are at risk.
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Aid agencies have ramped up their deliveries of food to some parts of Yemen this year.
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United Nations aid agencies can work in a country only with the blessings of the government.
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Another problem is that, being safe, poor and French-speaking, Senegal attracts charities and aid agencies.
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Many are hungry and have been without clean water supplies for days, according to aid agencies.
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Aid agencies say about 400-600 migrants are once again gathered and sleeping rough on streets.
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U.N. aid agencies said the fighting has so far forced about 22014,20143 to flee their homes.
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Aid agencies put the number of killed and wounded at several thousands, both military and civilians.
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The United Nations and aid agencies have warned of a new humanitarian catastrophe in northwest Syria.
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The government is responding to immediate relief needs, alongside local and international aid agencies, Durjoy said.
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Heavy rains could also bring another severe impact even after the storm passed, aid agencies warned.
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Against this, we have this glamorization of urban poverty by the wealthier philanthropist and aid agencies.
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Aid agencies warn that there will be a "humanitarian catastrophe" if conditions here don't improve immediately.
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The British government also issued guidance to aid agencies receiving British funding to leave the city.
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Aid agencies have long urged authorities to close the camp, which lacks running water and electricity.
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U.N. aid agencies said the fighting has so far forced about 6,000 to flee their homes.
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The influx has strained Canada's refugee system, worsening backlogs in refugee tribunals and sending aid agencies scrambling.
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Local aid agencies have gone to churches and schools to try to educate people of the dangers.
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The risks also meant aid agencies were having to divert resources from providing assistance to boosting security.
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As the fighting moves inside the city, aid agencies warn that Mosul's residents are in grave danger.
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As a result, aid agencies are able to operate, which means that displaced people are not starving.
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When the refugees started arriving in 2011, the government stopped aid agencies from setting up formal camps.
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But aid agencies and UN officials warn that fighting over the port would aggravate Yemen's humanitarian crisis.
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Aid agencies said downplaying the number of people fleeing violence would impact their ability to help millions.
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Foreign aid agencies already feed many Zimbabweans who would otherwise starve—in some years, millions of them.
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In the past few years, though, governments and aid agencies have put more faith in solar power.
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Syria has not confirmed or reported this news, leaving aid agencies unsure whether to access the road.
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Local aid agencies in Somalia said they were struggling to support drought-hit communities with limited resources.
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But refugees themselves and aid agencies oppose a repatriation plan that was due to begin on Nov.
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The decision has also been criticized by aid agencies, opposition lawmakers, celebrities and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Aid agencies in Colombo canvassed for boats to rescue hundreds of people trapped by rising river waters.
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With the country essentially left combating two separate humanitarian crises, aid agencies are appealing for international assistance.
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It's imperative that aid agencies relocate from the Kurdish autonomous region and base themselves in the city.
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It illustrates the challenges Iraqi authorities and aid agencies face in balancing humanitarian needs with security concerns.
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Aid agencies have warned of starvation, malnutrition and dwindling food supplies for the displaced in Borno State.
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In the run-up to the campaign, aid agencies were preparing for a mass exodus from Mosul.
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All rely on the group or other aid agencies for money to pay employees and for supplies.
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Local and international aid agencies are now delivering food, water and medical assistance at Garart al-Gatef.
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Reports from Bono's organization, the One campaign, and other aid agencies depict a region in terrible straits.
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Mozambican health officials and international aid agencies have been battling cholera in the wake of the cyclone.
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The disaster has left aid agencies struggling to cope and seen 86,000 people moved to emergency shelters.
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It is less prominent than Western aid agencies, multilateral outfits like UNICEF or other big international charities.
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Full-blown famines have not materialized, because aid agencies got to the hardest hit places quickly enough.
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Why were the United Nations and aid agencies so worried about the battle for Hudaydah even then?
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The Russian-led campaign has also knocked down dozens of hospitals and schools, international aid agencies said.
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Juba is not honoring a similar treaty exempting aid agencies receiving U.S. funding, a Western diplomat said.
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Still, aid agencies and global-development banks have a useful role to play in the energy transition.
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Aid agencies have long urged the authorities to close the camp, which lacks running water and electricity.
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International aid agencies face pressure to hire Houthi loyalists, pay "customs taxes" and cover the rebels' expenses.
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The statement amounted to a triage list of the challenges confronting Unicef and other children's aid agencies.
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Authorities have declared large parts of the north of the state off-limits to most aid agencies.
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The straight-talking priest has no time for the bureaucracy and perks of many international aid agencies.
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Not only does that not happen; the education ministry and the aid agencies sometimes pull in opposite directions.
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As the insects continue to multiply and spread, national governments and aid agencies are struggling to contain them.
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Vessels fully chartered by aid agencies go through a different process: They directly obtain sailing rights from Riyadh.
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More recent figures are not available yet, but aid agencies fear the situation could be much worse now.
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It's relatively peaceful in the town, and Western aid agencies are operating in the nearby village of Ganyiel.
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Aid agencies fear that the flooding will worsen a cholera epidemic, which followed a massive earthquake in 2010.
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North Korea has said it is facing historic droughts and aid agencies have warned of possible food shortages.
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Restricted movement for Syrian adults also means many families rely on their children for income, aid agencies say.
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When Protestant aid agencies rushed in after a massive earthquake in 1976, the faith gained a substantial foothold.
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Rather, establishing and exercising thresholds and protocols will aid agencies in preparing options and recommending courses of action.
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It was the first time Western aid agencies could reach out to this large and extremely vulnerable group.
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In a statement, he urged the warring parties to give aid agencies access to the people in need.
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The company is in talks with governments, aid agencies and charities around the world to find potential clients.
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The British government later warned it would slash funds from overseas aid agencies embroiled in sexual abuse scandal.
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More common, however, is for governments and aid agencies to pretend these new mining towns do not exist.
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Aid agencies say well over 2,000 children have been killed or wounded since the start of the war.
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By mid-June, aid agencies estimated, the number had grown to 60,000, in an area known as Rukban.
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Syrian government inspectors had stripped the convoy of many of the medical supplies that aid agencies had loaded.
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But doses of cholera vaccine have arrived, and the humanitarian crisis may yet be contained, aid agencies say.
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Cutting this capacity to monitor, evaluate and learn in our aid agencies is penny-wise and pound foolish.
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In 2011, the group regularly extorted money from aid agencies and managed to wrest control of critical food supplies.
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More than 20 million people are facing famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northeast Nigeria, say aid agencies.
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They have left aid agencies struggling to cope and the armed forces have been deployed to help those affected.
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Best of all, thanks to grant funding, the data are freely available — a godsend to cash-starved aid agencies.
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The coalition also says it is providing financial support to help aid agencies and humanitarian groups to help civilians.
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The declaration has galvanised aid agencies, which are frantically fundraising to be able to meet multiple crises at once.
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Several aid agencies told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they were bracing for more heavy rainfall in the coming days.
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If more refugees arrive, aid agencies might not be able to cope and more people might die, he said.
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But U.N. officials and aid agencies said an overly militarized response to the crisis is only making it worse.
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With so few Mediterranean crossings this summer, aid agencies believe tens of thousands of migrants are stranded in Libya.
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They tend to be generous to those they leave behind and better at targeting their assistance than aid agencies.
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Deaths, widespread illness Aid agencies, like MSF, have been speaking to sources in the berm and documenting medical cases.
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About 120,000 live in camps set up after deadly violence in 2012, relying on aid agencies for basic supplies.
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A separate conflict with Rakhine rebels that escalated in December has seen aid agencies blocked from reaching many areas.
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The U.N. and aid agencies are stepping up their response, but conditions and access within the country remain challenging.
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Just over half of aid agencies with programs in Syria said bilateral funding should go directly to national organizations.
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His talk of a possible siege of the city is what aid agencies fear could worsen the humanitarian crisis.
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The Afghan government and aid agencies are overwhelmed and have been pleading with donors to fund emergency winter assistance.
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Yet even in wars, armies clear the way to protect noncombatants and allow aid agencies to rescue the wounded.
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Aid agencies say scores of people, mostly children, have died en route to the camp or shortly after arriving.
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Aid agencies began arriving in Marawi on Friday in an attempt to help people left behind in the city.
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In August, as disaster struck Louisiana, aid agencies said they were having difficulty collecting money to support flood victims.
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More than 20 million people are facing famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northeast Nigeria, aid agencies say.
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Its economy relies on labor migration rather than jobs that keep its workers in the country, aid agencies said.
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Created to accommodate about 3,000 people, it now houses more than 15,000 in conditions aid agencies say are abysmal.
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The government of Myanmar still denies aid agencies unfettered access to Rakhine State, despite desperate needs on the ground.
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Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian crisis, with nearly a half-million people at risk near the border.
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Aid agencies have called Cyclone Idai and its aftermath the worst natural disaster in southern Africa in two decades.
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The authorities and aid agencies are preparing to bury the dead in several Freetown cemeteries in coming days, CRS said.
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CNN cannot independently verify the accounts from inside Rakhine State, because access to journalists and aid agencies is heavily restricted.
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Aid agencies wait and see Where exactly Trump proposes to make the cuts will be revealed over the coming weeks.
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More than 7 million people lack food but insecurity makes it hard for aid agencies to reach the most vulnerable.
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In 2017, aid agencies claimed that 130 children were dying every day as a result of extreme hunger and disease.
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Aid agencies fear that a major assult on Hodeida would cut supply lines to the rebel-held north, including Sana'a.
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It also recognizes that those caught in crisis know what they need, and don't need aid agencies to tell them.
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Aid agencies have said they need reassurances from both government and opposition groups to use the road to deliver aid.
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Aid agencies are struggling to house the new arrivals as the inflow has clogged the system for processing asylum claims.
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Aid agencies call it "the berm" -- essentially a rocky, largely uninhabitable no-man's land on Jordan's northeastern frontier with Syria.
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Bangladesh has rejected those claims and U.N. aid agencies say it is not yet safe for the refugees to return.
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Amid a few signs of construction and gentrification, like remodeled theaters and hotels, are bodegas, shelters, supportive housing, aid agencies.
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By the end of the year, aid agencies predict, the country will be in a state of full blown famine.
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The disaster has left aid agencies struggling to cope, and the armed forces were deployed to help flood-hit people.
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Lari said housing provided by aid agencies after disasters was too expensive, with the result that many people were excluded.
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The two attacks have driven some 40,000 people to flee, 30,000 of them into nearby Cameroon, according to aid agencies.
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Besides the coalition's airstrikes, aid agencies say that mortar and rocket fire from both sides is exacting a heavy toll.
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North Korea has confirmed to international aid agencies that 703 people have been killed and an additional 395 remain missing.
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Yet more and more people who have been uprooted within the country are going home, according to several aid agencies.
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Schoolchildren continue to be slaughtered while our politicians, generals and aid agencies reckon progress by the increased availability of cellphones.
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Entire communities have reportedly been "wiped out," and aid agencies estimate that tens of thousands of people will need support.
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Restrictions on what aid agencies can bring into the site, such as construction materials, have hampered efforts to improve conditions.
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U.N. aid agencies do not have access to much of Eastern Ghouta, the rebel-held enclave where Douma is located.
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Bangladesh, however, would need financial and other help from aid agencies to move the refugees to the island, he said.
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Ethnic Rakhine have long complained that foreign aid agencies have given generously to Muslims while ignoring other equally needy people.
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But most aid that USAID and other US aid agencies offer isn't about providing infrastructure improvements or other public goods.
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Today relations between donors and ministers are cordial, and the aid agencies still justify their projects by pointing to national plans.
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Aid agencies and charities often focus on inputs—the number of clinics built, the number of farmers using superior hybrid seeds.
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Not surprisingly, aid agencies are issuing dire warnings they don't have the manpower or resources to deal with what is coming.
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Generals weigh in too Concern about aid budget cuts is not limited to the offices of aid agencies and international charities.
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Aid agencies warned the failure of these rains could trigger mass famine across northern Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia and eastern Ethiopia.
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"We haven't seen extremely widespread destruction, we've not seen as many displaced people as the aid agencies were fearing," he said.
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There used to be compounds and warehouses for some aid agencies there, but they were all burned down during the fighting.
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That hasn't been implemented, but it's a stark reminder to aid agencies that their relationship with the government is increasingly shaky.
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Aid agencies that delivered two convoys of food and medicine said Friday that least 32 people had died because of malnutrition.
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Idai destroyed the port city of Beira and caused devastating floods and leaving health officials and international aid agencies battling cholera.
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Aid agencies say it is difficult to deliver food to many of the hurricane's victims, in part because roads remain impassable.
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Government ministers, aid agencies and building experts attended a workshop in Kathmandu last week to discuss bamboo use in reconstruction programmes.
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Host governments and aid agencies can quickly build tents to house them, distribute food rations and set up clinics and schools.
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Other aid agencies are also becoming embroiled in a story that adds fuel to a debate about Britain's international-development work.
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U.N. aid agencies have pleaded with the Syrian government and its ally Russia to halt the campaign and let aid in.
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International aid agencies have expressed concern over the past few days that camps to accommodate displaced people are approaching full capacity.
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While now safe from the threat of violence, refugees in Bangladesh now face malnutrition on an "alarming" scale, say aid agencies.
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They added that there was "credible information" that foreign aid agencies and NGOs were training and deploying spies for Boko Haram.
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Each time the response is suspended due to violence there is a spike in the number of cases, aid agencies said.
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Politicians, for their part, should acknowledge that aid agencies manage a problem they would otherwise struggle to keep a lid on.
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Aid agencies working in the camps are compiling numbers since there is no registration process for undocumented Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh.
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Syrian troops have gained some ground in the area during a Russian-backed offensive that aid agencies warn is growing bloodier.
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Aid agencies warn that another refugee exodus across the Red Sea and on to the Mediterranean could be in the offing.
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Relations between the government and aid agencies had been difficult for months, with some officials accusing groups of helping the insurgents.
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Although some outside aid agencies have withdrawn from the country in recent years, a handful are still allowed to operate there.
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But despite the threats, he performs in public parks, orphanages, private parties and at charity events organized by international aid agencies.
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Other parts of the country have subsequently reported clashes, and the U.N. has recommended aid agencies reduce staff in hotspot locations.
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The conflict has led to a famine affecting 16 million people, which aid agencies currently rank as the worst on Earth.
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But despite criticisms from the United Nations and various international aid agencies, there is little prospect of a change in policy.
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Tension had been rising between the government and aid agencies even before the spasm of violence that began in late August.
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Aid agencies have pulled out of Moria since it became a closed facility last month and in protest at conditions there.
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Here are what some of the world's leading aid agencies expect will be humanitarian needs in Haiti in the storm's wake.
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An official crackdown on international aid agencies first began in 2015 when the Pakistani government ordered Save the Children to leave.
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Millions of Yemenis have been displaced, a majority of the population lacks food and aid agencies have struggled to supply assistance.
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Four million Venezuelans have fled their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N. aid agencies say.
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Currently, eight million of Yemen's 28 million people are at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations and aid agencies.
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Belief in witchcraft is widespread in rural Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, where many aid agencies and NGOs work.
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Aid agencies have urged the authorities to close Vucjak and find better accommodation for the migrants as the weather gets colder.
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Aid agencies expect that figure to increase to about 3.5 million as military operations unfold in the coming months, she said.
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Knowing the best way to keep girls in school or prevent malaria is helpful for governments, aid agencies and big foundations.
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Aid agencies say the true figure is likely to be far higher given the difficulties of verifying accounts in conflict zones.
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At a conference in London in February, U.N. and aid agencies appealed for $4.54 billion for the region's Syrian refugee crisis.
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But aid agencies say it is premature to say how many people have been killed while some affected areas remain inaccessible.
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It encourages aid agencies to go it alone to boost their burn rates quickly, so that they can get more funding.
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Aid agencies say the workshop had been targeted in the past, leading to repeated warnings about the safety of the center.
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Aid agencies are often barred from giving money directly to governments, either formally or because politicians back home persuade them not to.
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Sierra Leone, to the north, has a different history, different needs, a different constellation of charities and aid agencies—and similar problems.
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The new rules apply only to government workers funded by global aid agencies, and not to all those associated with international groups.
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Western governments and aid agencies have invested large amounts of money, but done little to address the political problems that cause starvation.
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Once the breadbasket of southern Africa, this year up to 2.5m of Zimbabwe's citizens may need food parcels from international aid agencies.
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Many locations besieged by government forces and their allies, Islamic State fighters and other insurgents remain hard to reach, aid agencies say.
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In a crisis, aid agencies must work quickly; often they can spare their staff for only a day or two's language training.
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Cheaper and lighter polyester substitutes are increasingly preferred by wholesale buyers such as aid agencies, railways and hospitals, whether Indian or foreign.
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Aid agencies and have expressed concern that the Rohingya will not be safe or be able to live freely if they return.
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Aid agencies officials said their teams had entered the city but clashes in the outskirts prevented them from launching large-scale operations.
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The new rules apply only to government workers financed by global aid agencies, and not to all those associated with international groups.
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Governments, aid agencies and charities have for decades tried to coax people towards cleaner fuels like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity.
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Mindful that areas west of the city could become another battlefield, aid agencies have urged civilians not to flee in that direction.
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The 10-year-old business supplies aid agencies, government departments and individuals with foods designed to last for up to 25 years.
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The government says 41 people have died in Mozambique - though that toll is expected to rise as aid agencies reach more areas.
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Aid agencies have complained that their requests to access many areas in the devastated country are not honored by the warring sides.
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World leaders and representatives of dozens of countries have been invited, along with officials from international organizations, aid agencies and civic groups.
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Tanzania is trying to boost enrolment in its community health programme, with help from GiZ and the American and Swedish aid agencies.
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Various aid agencies have expressed concerns that this left teenagers particularly vulnerable to child marriage, child labor, human trafficking, abuse and exploitation.
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The exodus has put pressure on aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous violence in Myanmar.
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Poor access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation put more people at risk of the life-threatening disease, according to aid agencies.
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All employees and contractors are safe and Exxon is working closely with aid agencies, communities and partner Oil Search Ltd, he added.
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Aid agencies are rushing to cope with surging numbers of displaced from the west, building new camps and supplying food and water.
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Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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Aid agencies estimate that 536,000 people have arrived in the Cox's Bazar district, straining scarce resources of aid groups and local communities.
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Amid this suffocating humanitarian crisis, the Trump administration has threatened to cut funding to international aid agencies that are assisting Syrian refugees.
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Turkey has struggled to contain the influx even as aid agencies say the number of arrivals from Iran is on the rise.
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Facebook is often used by charities and aid agencies to communicate about emergencies so that we can raise awareness and raise funds.
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But Boulierac said that without concerted action between the government, aid agencies and the U.N., efforts to tackle malnutrition would be ineffective.
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More than 730,000 Rohingya fled a sweeping army crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state in 2017, the United Nations and aid agencies say.
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With no end to the war in sight, governments and aid agencies are looking at how to help refugees earn a living.
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In Beira, where 90% of the city was destroyed, people clung to rooftops as they waited to be rescued, aid agencies reported.
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A UNICEF spokesperson said the figure was confirmed during a meeting the aid agencies held with Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Wednesday.
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Finally, MDBs should continue to grow their partnerships — within the MDB system, with bilateral development finance institutions, and with bilateral aid agencies.
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Aid agencies, with the exception of the International Red Cross and the World Food Program, are still barred from working in Rakhine.
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Still, aid agencies say many have fears about going home, including reprisals, military conscription, loss of property, or fresh waves of violence.
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Relations between the government and aid agencies had been difficult for months, with some officials accusing the groups of helping the insurgents.
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Around the time that Liberia's child soldiers were putting down their guns, Western governments and aid agencies were resolving to give more wisely.
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This small, focused group met monthly, usually chaired by the president and attended only by the most senior ministers and largest aid agencies.
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In Syria, aid agencies have to work with traditional local finance entities, because most Western and Turkish banks aren't operating in the country.
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More than 300,000 people have fled the frontlines to the safety of areas near the border with Turkey, U.N. and aid agencies say.
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Wherever in the world such conditions crop up, CHIRPS is available to help overburdened aid agencies prioritize their attention at the local level.
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Currently, around 69,000 people are displaced by the Mosul operation, the IOM reports, and aid agencies say the humanitarian situation is getting desperate.
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The items had logos of aid agencies, leading many to believe they had been diverted by state officials in camps for the displaced.
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Aid agencies have warned that its return could be catastrophic for areas such as southern Madagascar, which has been experiencing chronic food shortages.
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Aid agencies say the shortages have constrained efforts to transport blankets, clothing and other essential relief materials to earthquake survivors in mountainous areas.
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But many are unaware of the science of fertility, and neither the Nigerian government nor aid agencies have tried hard to educate them.
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Residents and local and international aid agencies that support the rebel-held areas say the sustained campaign paralysed everyday life in opposition areas.
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Aid agencies have been distributing food, tarpaulins and other essentials in the camps, but they are struggling to keep up with the demand.
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An appeal for aid last year fell far short of needs, as donors provided less than 60 percent of what aid agencies requested.
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In the meantime, aid agencies are working to contain the current outbreak in a country where basic healthcare is limited in rural areas.
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Nikos Kotzias, the foreign minister, expects the number to reach 150,000; local aid agencies worry that 200,000 people may arrive in March alone.
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Thorning-Schmidt voiced hope the assault in Jalalabad would not deter other aid agencies, especially given the high global demand for their services.
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In any case, aid agencies need two and a half months of lead time and $284 million before the assault on Mosul starts.
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Those up to standard will win so-called prequalification status, which means drugs are eligible for procurement by UN and other aid agencies.
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Nigeria said last week that aid agencies, such as the United Nations, were exaggerating hunger levels to get more money from international donors.
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The World Food Program and foreign aid agencies stepped in to feed millions of Zimbabweans, while international aid and foreign investment dried up.
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Whether they are alone or with their families, we -- governments, aid agencies, businesses, communities -- have a moral and legal obligation to these children.
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Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a military crackdown in mainly Buddhist Myanmar, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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Some citizens started crowdfunding on Twitter to help those affected while the government sought assistance from individuals, private companies and international aid agencies.
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The Rohingya from those settlements sometimes find employment, but most are sustained by local villagers and rations quietly distributed by international aid agencies.
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The refugees' suffering has caused an international outcry, spurring appeals by aid agencies for millions of dollars in funds to tackle the crisis.
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World Briefing More aid agencies helping refugees and migrants arriving in Greece said they were joining a boycott of detention centers on Wednesday.
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Myanmar has restricted access to Rakhine for most aid agencies, despite growing international calls for humanitarian groups to be allowed in to help.
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At the same time, bandits plague northern Mali, targeting buses, herders, traders and aid agencies, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
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Aid agencies are doing what they can to try to prevent or delay an outbreak and make preparations for when the wave hits.
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Since then, iodine concentrations in Cambodian children have dropped by 913 percent, and doctors and aid agencies are rushing to prevent permanent damage.
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Since then, iodine concentrations in Cambodian children have dropped by 63 percent, and doctors and aid agencies are rushing to prevent permanent damage.
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Tens of thousands of civilians have also been displaced by the Turkish military operation, with aid agencies warning of a growing humanitarian crisis.
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Most locals rarely use the expensive oil now; they have replaced it with sunflower or soybean oil, doled out sparingly by aid agencies.
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Beira took the full brunt of Cylone Idai, with aid agencies reporting that 90% of the city had been destroyed by the storm.
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But aid agencies on the ground say they have received less than half of what they need to help those most at risk.
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The SDF transported most people who left Baghouz to displacement camps in northeast Syria where aid agencies have warned of dire humanitarian conditions.
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With the help of sympathetic aid agencies, he created a funding mechanism that split the difference between a charitable programme and a government agency.
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The group also traveled to Cox's Bazar district in Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees are huddled into makeshift camps and fed by overstretched aid agencies.
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Traditionally, the response of aid agencies and governments to refugee crises has been to set up camps and distribute supplies, like rice or bedding.
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The United Nations and aid agencies have described the crackdown on the Rohingya as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", an accusation Myanmar rejects.
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But the violence of their assault has prompted condemnation from Western countries and repeated calls by United Nations aid agencies for a humanitarian ceasefire.
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And voila: OX. The version we're seeing now is the XP3 prototype, which has received interest from aid agencies and Norman's contacts in Africa.
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Residents of the city supplied the families with bread and bowls of water but they said relief food from aid agencies was needed urgently.
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With 24m people and a coastline longer than that of the western United States, the country was feted by aid agencies and plucky investors.
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Instead the Greek government and aid agencies argue that the EU must overhaul the Dublin Regulation, so that asylum-seekers are distributed more evenly.
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Aid agencies paid salaries 20 times higher than the Afghan civil service, prompting the best officials to quit to work as drivers and interpreters.
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Meanwhile, aid agencies have focused their efforts on alleviating the suffering by distributing essential supplies in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Co-ordination is important in aid-giving because otherwise you might find, say, three aid agencies each building a hospital in the same city.
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Foreign aid agencies, governments and the WHO hope that they will be able to curb the spread of the disease before it reaches Kinshasa.
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In those early days, Western governments and aid agencies, keen to promote Zimbabwe as a donor-funded success story, generally looked the other way.
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More of these organizations are receiving funds from DFIs, such as the World Bank, and aid agencies, including France's $76 million African tech fund.
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The first full day passed without incident, but aid agencies have not been able to confirm the area is secure enough to deliver assistance.
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Aid agencies cannot distribute meat, milk or vegetables because it is too costly and even fortified cereals are not always available, aid workers said.
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The disaster, which has so far killed 2135 people, has left aid agencies struggling to cope and seen 2000,000 people moved to emergency shelters.
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It is part of Australia's controversial border security regime, which has been regularly criticized by aid agencies for human rights abuses, including against children.
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Numbers are being compiled by aid agencies working in the camps as there is no registration process for Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMNs) in Bangladesh.
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The British government told aid agencies that it had done "everything we can through diplomatic channels to discourage an assault" but to no avail.
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About 120,000 remain in camps set up after deadly violence swept the state in 2012, where they rely on aid agencies for basic provisions.
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The government says 41 people have died in Mozambique - though that toll is expected to rise as government and aid agencies reach more areas.
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International aid agencies in Malawi say maize smuggling has increased as traders seek the higher prices paid in Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Today, governments, aid agencies, and NGOs are finally trying to match their rhetoric with accommodative policies and creative financing to attract private sector engagement.
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International aid agencies sometimes help: the World Health Organization donated two vehicles, and the Red Cross gave paramedics a first aid course last year.
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Thousands of civilians have been killed in the fighting, millions are starving and many survivors are also at risk from cholera, aid agencies say.
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Afghanistan's donors should generously support Pakistan and aid agencies assisting Afghans in Pakistan and should press the government to end its abuses and threats.
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UNICEF and other aid agencies are bringing emergency drinking water by truck to an estimated 325,000 people in western Aleppo per day, he said.
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It has built transit centers for refugees to return, but U.N. aid agencies say it is not yet safe for them to do so.
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Nearly a million people, mostly women and children, are trying to escape the latest wave of violence in the Idlib region, overwhelming aid agencies.
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Aid agencies warned the move would worsen the humanitarian crisis in Yemen where the war has left an estimated seven million people facing famine.
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Aid agencies must be able to continue to deliver supplies to civilians, including the cities of Hassakeh, Raqqa and Deir al-Zor, he said.
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Above and beyond that, various aid agencies -- from Save the Children and the Norwegian Refugee Council to Catholic Relief Services -- had staff aboard ET302.
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The amount of funding received by aid agencies and local governments has increased this year to $1503 billion, compared with $1.06 billion last year.
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The government allocated vacant land in the bush, where aid agencies helped the first returnees build houses, and then others came to join them.
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With the average refugee now staying outside their homeland for more than a decade, aid agencies say more and more will need such assistance.
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As an aid worker during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami recovery in Indonesia, I saw aid agencies flock to afflicted areas and erect houses.
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Riyadh insisted on a drawn-out negotiating process, in which it reached individual memoranda of understanding with each of the UN's recipient aid agencies.
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James Cooper, an IT and politics graduate who has worked for a Liberian senator, says aid agencies and charities pay about three times as much.
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The World Bank is shyer than many aid agencies about erecting signs celebrating its good work, and local people seem unsure whom to hold responsible.
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Aid agencies report that around 60,000 children in the camps are unable to go to school, after hundreds of learning centers were forced to close.
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Refugees housed in camps run by aid agencies had better access than local people to education, healthcare, water supplies and opportunities for a decent living.
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Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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International aid agencies estimate that 75% of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance: Just over 8 million people are at risk of starvation.
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In neighboring Pakistan, the government has ordered at least 18 international aid agencies, most of them working on human rights issues, to leave the country.
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Bombs struck five hospitals in the enclave on Monday, said the UOSSM group of aid agencies that funds medical facilities in opposition parts of Syria.
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Aid agencies have warned the offensive could trigger a refugee crisis; so far, 34,860 people have been displaced, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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Earlier on Thursday, a meeting of emergency workers including representatives from the government, the United Nations and international aid agencies said 145 had been killed.
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Aid agencies warned the move would worsen the humanitarian crisis in the country, where the war has left an estimated seven million people facing famine.
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Western aid agencies say that a series of interlocking conflicts over minerals, land, ethnicity and political divisions during the past 20 years has killed millions.
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There were conflicting accounts of events leading up to the shooting, which took place in an area off-limits to reporters and most aid agencies.
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Three years ago, a government program, backed by aid agencies and the United Nations, started taking care of school fees for 750,000 under-privileged children.
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While Thengar Char looked calm on a sunny winter afternoon, the main objection voiced by aid agencies to Bangladesh's plan is the area's unforgiving climate.
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Riyadh has prevented aid agencies from landing planes in the country and docking at Yemen's ports, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation, according to Lowcock.
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Mouzalas, a physician, was extensively involved with aid agencies and participated in relief missions before his cabinet appointment in Greece's leftist-led government last year.
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is backed by U.N. and other aid agencies, issued a special alert calling for urgent humanitarian action.
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The extremist group generates vast amounts of funds from charcoal exports and by gouging aid agencies and ordinary Somalis in protection rackets and road tolls.
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Last month, after insurgents attacked border posts, killing nine police officers, the authorities in Myanmar closed the southwestern state to aid agencies and independent journalists.
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After years of war, eight million of Yemen's estimated 28 million people are at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations and aid agencies.
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Tens of thousands of people have been killed, many of them civilians, and aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis is the worst in the world.
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The idea is to create an area where civilians can settle and aid agencies can operate free of fear, alleviating humanitarian suffering and refugee outflow.
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With famine expected in Somalia in 2017, for example, U.N. and other aid agencies sent 600,43 families vouchers by text message redeemable in local markets.
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The improved situation has allowed aid agencies to reach more of the 7 million people who need aid, including 3 million experiencing severe food shortages.
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Aid agencies could check future employees against national criminal records and Interpol databases under the scheme, named Operation Soteria after the Greek goddess of safety.
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Thousands of civilians have already been killed in the fighting, millions are starving and many survivors are also at risk from cholera, aid agencies say.
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The United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura called for a truce, and aid agencies have sought humanitarian access to those trapped by the bombardment.
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But just a few miles outside the town, it is Shabab country, belonging to the Shabab militant Islamist group that has banned Western aid agencies.
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Aid agencies say most of those displaced are Kurds, though members of other minorities, including some of Tuz Khurmato's Sunni Arabs and Turkmen, also fled.
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Aid agencies have called it the worst natural disaster in the region in two decades, and warned that the death toll could climb past 1,000.
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Migrants and refugees held in detention are especially vulnerable in the current fighting, said aid agencies MSF (Doctors without Borders) and the International Rescue Committee.
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Bangladeshi hospitals and international aid agencies are struggling to provide medical care for all the refugees, many of whom have suffered horrific injuries and psychological trauma.
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The flood disaster, arising from exceptionally heavy rainfall since March 19, has left aid agencies struggling to cope and seen 86,000 people moved to emergency shelters.
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As Syria enters a sixth year of brutal war, sparked in part by a drought made worse by climate change, aid agencies are overwhelmed with need.
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The flooding, which began on March 19, has killed 7003 people, forced more than 220,000 people into emergency shelters, and left aid agencies struggling to cope.
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At a warehouse in Humanitarian City, a storage centre used by aid agencies in Dubai, four new mobile cranes are waiting to help Hodeida unload ships.
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International aid agencies say that hundreds of thousands of people, who have already endured eight years of a protracted conflict, could be at risk in Syria.
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The department on Saturday advised refugee aid agencies that refugees set to travel before Trump signed his order will now be allowed into the United States.
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Aside from the slow job of trying to coax the children through their trauma, aid agencies are also trying to breathe life into a community ravaged.
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Aid agencies, international bodies and big tech companies told themselves and their funders that poor people needed an internet connection to lift themselves out of misery.
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Aid Agencies reported that following Cyclone Idai, 90% of the city of Beira had been ruined and that much of the city's telecommunication infrastructure was destroyed.
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Three months after the United Nations warned of the imminent risk of famine in Somalia, aid agencies there are battling a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.
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For refugees, meanwhile, aid agencies are increasingly trying to provide water supplies and sanitation in ways that also benefit local people and avoid tensions, Connor said.
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Hundreds of people are feared dead after landslides swept through the outskirts of the rain-soaked city early Monday, according to government officials and aid agencies.
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Aid agencies have warned that the monsoons will cause deaths at the camps, which are clustered in a part of Bangladesh that records the highest rainfall.
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Aid agencies said they were struggling to provide medical care and shelter for the new arrivals, while water supplies were being stretched thin in the camp.
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Aid agencies have become alarmed about civilian suffering and the United Nations has urged combatants to assure safe passage to inhabitants trying to escape the fighting.
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Myanmar has since blocked U.N. aid agencies from delivering supplies of food, water and medicine in northern Rakhine, affecting hundreds of thousands of vulnerable displaced people.
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Such initiatives are important, as stigma around menstruation also prevents women and girls from seeking help from aid agencies when they are affected by health issues.
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As scientists predict changes in rainfall patterns as a result of climate change, the study's findings could help countries and aid agencies tackle hunger more effectively.
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Aid agencies are racing to provide food, shelter and healthcare to the homeless, and prevent outbreaks of dangerous water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.
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Governments and aid agencies have been calling for more investment in disaster prevention for years, to cut the rising bill for helping people hit by crises.
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The aid agencies said deteriorating conditions in these countries and limited options for Syrians to resettle elsewhere could drive many to return home despite the dangers.
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However, aid agencies say repatriation may be premature unless their security can be guaranteed and many Rohingya have said they are afraid to return to Myanmar.
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More than 100,000 people in Chad do not have enough to eat, because of being forced to flee and disruptions to commerce, according to aid agencies.
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Some aid agencies have said that, even if the pause hold, five hours will not be enough to bring in supplies to relieve the besieged population.
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The influx has strained Canada's backlogged system for assisting people seeking refugee status, leaving aid agencies scrambling to meet growing demand for housing and social services.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Volcanic eruptions in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have forced 15,000 villagers in the country's northeast to flee their homes, aid agencies said on Sunday.
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"Aid agencies will again adapt to the context to keep reaching the most vulnerable through the most direct means, including from areas now under government control."
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Emergency workers struggled on Tuesday to reach areas devastated by a cyclone, which aid agencies called the worst natural disaster in southern Africa in two decades.
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Aid agencies say the government has continued to block their access to Rakhine State, increasing the risk to people of all ethnic groups fleeing the violence.
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Of those sent back, 480 were unregistered refugees staying at the Cacanda center managed by aid agencies in the frontier town of Dundo, the statement said.
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The agency estimates that 24 million people in Yemen will continue to need the assistance of aid agencies to battle acute hunger and outbreaks of disease.
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At least 18 international aid agencies, most of them working on human rights issues, were ordered to leave Pakistan over recent months after being refused registration.
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The haunting photograph of Omran Daqneesh, a bloodied child covered in dust sitting stunned in an ambulance in Aleppo, was also ranked highly by aid agencies.
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They will also look at how to simplify their systems for distributing money to aid agencies and their requirements for reporting how that money is spent.
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Um Ahmad said she relied on her husband to haul water to the tent, where she would wash her children in buckets provided by aid agencies.
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Aid agencies changed tack from dealing with a situation mostly involving damage to property and infrastructure caused by the cyclone to facing something much more serious.
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Philanthropists and government aid agencies are only starting to get interested in the challenges of distribution — one new philanthropy that does have this focus is Good Ventures.
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Aid agencies, particularly the FAO and World Vision, provided them with free seedlings and taught them technical skills, said Hidrom, the local pioneer who also keeps bees.
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Despite the presence of government and international aid agencies, "the health and nutrition situation has been allowed to deteriorate up to the current crisis point," she said.
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But the militants have since struck back with suicide bombings and hit and run attacks on civilians, threatening livelihoods and hindering aid agencies' efforts to deliver food.
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"There is a concern that aid agencies may not be able to reach or provide assistance to people who go back to insecure areas," said Dehermann-Roy.
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Aid agencies have called for a speedy resolution to the conflict, warning that the impoverished country is now victim to the world's greatest man-made humanitarian disaster.
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Funk quickly recognized the value such an approach would have for improving FEWS Net's ability to identify emerging famines early on so aid agencies can respond quickly.
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Large seed dealers generally focus on selling large volumes to institutional clients, such as big aid agencies or the United Nations, rather than small farmers, she said.
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The government and aid agencies are revising upwards a joint appeal in December for $1.4 billion as the number of districts suffering a humanitarian emergency has widened.
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Aid agencies have tried to deliver food and medicine into eastern Ghouta, but have been able only to bring in a portion of the amount they wanted.
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More development-impact bonds are now under way or under discussion, some involving big donors like the World Bank, USAID and DfID (America's and Britain's aid agencies).
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GENEVA — Alarmed by starvation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, aid agencies sent a mobile medical clinic there on Friday and planned to increase medical support.
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The Houthi takeover prompted many countries to close their embassies and aid agencies to sharply reduce their staff, reducing the number of foreigners - and kidnappings - in Yemen.
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But tracing and tracking down relatives can take several months - leaving them prey to child marriage, sexual abuse and forced labor in the meantime, aid agencies say.
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Today Mubarak, 22, is back in the classroom and part of a small but growing initiative by aid agencies to integrate children with disabilities into mainstream education.
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More than 2.2 million Yemeni children have been pushed toward starvation, with one child dying every 10 minutes from hunger and preventable diseases, according to aid agencies.
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More than 28 million Yemeni children have been pushed toward starvation, with one child dying every 20173 minutes from hunger and preventable diseases, according to aid agencies.
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Countries in the region suffer frequent flooding during the June-September monsoon season, but international aid agencies say things are have been worse than normal this year.
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For years aid agencies have focused on reducing deaths of children under five, which have dropped sharply, said Laurent Hiffler of medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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It caused global alarm in mid-2014 - and heavy criticism of WHO, the U.N. health agency - as governments and aid agencies rushed to help contain the epidemic.
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But Abdelkarim and his friends dread going to one of the crowded camps where aid agencies sometimes place two families in one tent for lack of space.
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A U.N. road map for the talks calls on the parties to allow aid agencies unhindered access throughout Syria, particularly in besieged and hard-to-reach areas.
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Aid agencies say up to one million could flee Mosul, a city of 1.5 million where in 2014 Islamic State proclaimed a "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.
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U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic State, including the city, where civilians face severe food shortages and sharply deteriorating conditions.
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When young children arrive alone, officials deliver them to aid agencies or try to find adults to care for them at the camp for now, he added.
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Around 600 people are still unaccounted for after heavy rains struck the Regent district in the early hours of Monday, according to government officials and aid agencies.
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Some aid agencies think that most insecure parts of Borno are now in full-blown famine, which would suggest that 30% of people there are acutely malnourished.
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In a similar vein GuarantCo, which is backed by aid agencies, helps make investments in infrastructure in poor countries bankable by taking on the most nettlesome risks.
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There have been frantic negotiations, through intermediaries, between international aid agencies and Islamic State officials inside Falluja, seeking to open up corridors to deliver food and medicine.
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It said aid agencies on the ground had enough emergency medical supplies and trauma kits to treat up to 210,000 individuals and 900 injuries for three months.
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Aid agencies also gave them shovels to dig latrines and encouraged them to carry their trash to a pickup point, in an effort to stave off disease.
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In Afghanistan, 7.6 million people need help, with many in areas that are difficult for aid agencies to access and where armed groups are present, it said.
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The drought has left 10.2 million people in need of food aid and aid agencies say that figure could rise to more than 15 million by August.
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Apakan's comments followed warnings from aid agencies over the humanitarian situation in the eastern Donbass region, particularly given Monday's attack on the government-controlled village of Novoluhanske.
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Then again, Westerners are rare: Even the die-hards of any trouble spot — the United Nations, embassies and aid agencies — evacuated to Tunisia almost two years ago.
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Myanmar has previously said access to Rakhine for humanitarian assistance would be open, but certain Rohingya communities have remained off-limits to aid agencies on security grounds.
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Although the blockade has eased somewhat since the fall, many aid agencies in the area warn that much of Yemen is now on the brink of famine.
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Most crucially, we must guarantee accountability by empowering local communities to report on progress and by holding both our government and international aid agencies to their word.
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They're not calling for reforms that make it easier for USAID and other aid agencies to spend on highly effective projects that reduce child and maternal mortality.
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However, the group, like all other aid agencies, was still required to get new no-objection certificates to operate in restricted areas like the northwestern tribal regions.
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Aid agencies often cite the fear of conscription, and punishment for ducking it, as one of the main reasons refugees give for not wanting to return home.
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Aid agencies descended to assist with famine, acute malnutrition, education and peer-to-peer counseling, but none of these efforts had reached the boys I spoke to.
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Yet many people are also dying in rural areas where health centers have been destroyed by conflict and patients lack access to basic treatment, aid agencies said.
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Supported by foreign governments and international aid agencies, Samoa has been conducting a vaccination drive that the government said has now covered nearly 90% of eligible people.
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Aid agencies say they can reduce the number of people in urgent need of help by as much as a quarter if the peace agreement takes hold.
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Northern Aceh province bore the brunt of the disaster, where a total of 500,228 people were killed, according to statistics compiled by the government and aid agencies.
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Yemen's civil war has killed more than 10,000 people and pushed the impoverished country to the verge of famine, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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Whereas politicians and conservative newspapers tend to criticise aid agencies for wasting money on silly projects and falling prey to fraudsters, aid-watchers have a more profound worry.
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The upper layers of the Liberian government are thick with American-educated technocrats who are admired by the aid agencies and able to cope with their complex demands.
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Aid agencies note that, ahead of the exercise, fewer refugees used their services, fearing that registering for these might cause their names to be added to repatriation lists.
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Aid agencies and authorities erected tents along the route to the border, but many male migrants slept outside on the ground, lighting camp fires against the morning chill.
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Many other cities in Syria are held by rebels or other factions in the civil war, and they are likely to come under further attack, said aid agencies.
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The attack came after five international aid agencies temporarily suspended their operations in northern Central African Republic last week because of attacks on humanitarian workers by armed groups.
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Reports of food shortages in Rakhine will add to the urgency of calls by aid agencies and the international community for unfettered humanitarian access to the conflict zone.
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Many of the relatives of captured Islamic State fighters are located in al-Hol, a camp for displaced people where aid agencies have warned of dire humanitarian conditions.
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Although many of the bureaucratic costs associated with Senegal's cash-welfare programme are paid by aid agencies, almost all the money distributed to paupers comes from the government.
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READ MORE: The pirate radio station fighting Isis on the airwaves Altogether, aid agencies expect around 200,000 people to flee Mosul in the first weeks of the offensive.
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Another idea would be for governments and aid agencies to fund research into new seeds and farming techniques to improve yields and make crops less vulnerable to drought.
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The influx is putting pressure on vulnerable host communities in Burkina Faso's north, which is facing its worst hunger in years coupled with growing violence, aid agencies said.
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Aid agencies must be given safe and unimpeded access to all these people to provide them with the aid they need, especially now, in the midst of winter.
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Poor security in the affected areas has hampered efforts to contain the outbreak and calls are growing for foreign aid agencies to deploy more staff on the ground.
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By comparison, aid agencies working on the crisis in Cameroon have received 23 percent of the money appealed for; those in Chad 4 percent and Niger 47 percent.
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The Islamist group preys on displaced children or young girls it kidnaps and forces them to become bombers, with some unaware they are carrying explosives, aid agencies say.
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Rape, abusive relationships, and sex in exchange for money were rife in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, fuelling a spike in teenage pregnancies, several aid agencies said.
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Athens-based aid agencies hope that funds will bypass the slow-moving Greek bureaucracy, going straight to needy migrants in the form of vouchers for food and housing.
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International aid agencies are well aware of the gloomy outlook for oil producers with Iraq already receiving an emergency loan of $833 million from the IMF in 2015.
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In December 2018, a U.N.-led appeal by nearly 100 aid agencies requested $738 million to help the fleeing Venezuelans, but less than a quarter has been funded.
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He hopes to get funding from Syria's Assyrian Church and aid agencies to rebuild the big 80-year-old church of the Virgin Mary which the militants leveled.
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Air strikes on Thursday by the Saudi-led coalition on a fishing port and fish market in Hodeidah killed 26 people, Yemeni medical sources and aid agencies said.
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For its assessment the WFP, one of only a few aid agencies with access to the country, gained widespread entry to farms, households, nurseries and food distribution centres.
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The Islamist militants have killed hundreds of teachers and forced more than 1,000 schools to shut, leaving tens of thousands of children without an education, aid agencies say.
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Not one additional person has begun receiving food or medical assistance, even though there has been bureaucratic progress in the relationship between aid agencies and the Sudan regime.
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YEMEN is on the brink of famine, say aid agencies, which often blame the civil war, Saudi Arabia's blockade of northern seaports and its bombing of vital infrastructure.
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To deal with hunger worsened by drought, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) and other international aid agencies such as the Catholic Relief Services, are distributing food rations.
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Experts say aid agencies need to do more to help workers who suffer from mental health problems such as depression, burnout and anxiety after exposure to traumatic events.
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But a report by the government and international aid agencies last year said 16 percent of Zimbabwe's population - which numbers 13 million - required food up to March 2016.
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But aid agencies were disappointed by a lack of concrete targets to boost international government funding to help poor communities adapt to more extreme weather and rising seas.
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Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh (CNN)One woman and two children were killed in a stampede for unofficial handouts of clothing near a Rohingya refugee camp, aid agencies say.
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The legislation, as it was written before the election, would force aid agencies working with migrants to apply for and receive national security clearance from the Interior Ministry.
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The Rohingya elders Reuters spoke to said they were still finalising their list of demands before showing it to Bangladesh authorities and to aid agencies administering the camps.
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At the same time, aid agencies sharpened criticism of the Saudi coalition over civilian suffering in the city, which the coalition has been threatening to invade for months.
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Buddhist community leaders in Myebon have also blocked international aid agencies from reaching the camp, saying only the government can deliver aid, which must be checked by Buddhists.
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Both the charges and the apparent coverup reflect deep cultural problems within the aid industry in general and the mega-charities and large international aid agencies in particular.
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"In our world of plenty there is no excuse for inaction or indifference," Mr. Guterres said at a news conference, flanked by the heads of his aid agencies.
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Guterres, who met Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, made his trip as aid agencies struggle to cope with an exodus of residents from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city.
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Aid agencies say "loss and damage" occurs when stresses made worse by climate change - such as creeping deserts or rising seas - are too severe for people to overcome.
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Aid agencies have warned that the fighting in eastern Syria is the worst in the country this year and that air strikes have caused hundreds of civilian casualties.
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Digging half-moon trenches is a traditional technique that aid agencies have encouraged throughout the region, often paying farmers or herders in food or cash for their labor.
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For its assessment the WFP, one of only a few aid agencies with access to the country, gained widespread entry to farms, households, nurseries and food distribution centers.
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Global Health Starvation in northern Nigeria's Borno State is so bad that a whole slice of the population — children under 5 — appears to have died, aid agencies say.
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Since conflict broke out in Syria in 2011, more than 1 million people have fled across the border to Lebanon, where aid agencies say most live in extreme poverty.
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Aid agencies are also concerned for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar and are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh near the coast.
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The report said that "terrorist groups" had also opened fire on a convoy transporting rebels and their families out of eastern Aleppo, forcing aid agencies to leave the area.
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The basic idea is that subsistence farmers can purchase the right to financial compensation during low rainfall years through insurance programs sponsored by governments and climate-focused aid agencies.
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"The international aid agencies in Gaza distribute mainly white flour and fewer traditional grains, like frika (green wheat), bulgur, and barley," Gross and Feldman wrote in their 2015 paper.
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Western governments and aid agencies have invested large amounts of money and energy in providing assistance, but they have done little to address the political problems that cause starvation.
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Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state and crossed into Bangladesh since insurgent attacks sparked a security crackdown last August, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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Local aid agencies are desperately scrambling to find food and shelter for people who have trekked for days from their villages, often carrying only the clothes on their backs.
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International aid agencies report more that than 2.2 million people have fled their homes over the past two years, including some 600,000 who have sought refuge in neighboring countries.
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They can also diversify their diet by buying nutritious food like greens and fruit, no longer relying only on the grains and flour supplied by aid agencies, she added.
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"The appeal that was issued of $77 million on behalf of the aid agencies was based on the situation as it was roughly about two weeks ago," he said.
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Aid agencies spoken to by CNN said they had humanitarian aid standing by and ready to be delivered to the city, but were waiting until the route was secured.
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Aid agencies say they have humanitarian aid standing by and ready to be delivered, but the route, which remains under heavy bombardment, is too dangerous for convoys to enter.
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Aid agencies said they hoped Barrow's victory would spur donors to invest in Gambia and tackle issues ranging from high rates of malnutrition to vulnerability to rising sea levels.
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As forces of the Saudi-led military coalition close in on Hodeidah, aid agencies fear a major battle will shut down a vital lifeline for millions of hungry civilians.
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In recent years, hospitals and clinics run by aid agencies in countries such as Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan have been increasingly targeted by state forces as well as militants.
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Aid agencies have distributed the typical rations of dry cereals, oil and beans, but what the children really need is milk, said Iba who is too weak to breastfeed.
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BARCELONA/HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When a big earthquake, flash flood or other sudden disaster hits, aid agencies spring into action with emergency responses and public appeals for donations.
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At least 1.3 million meningitis C vaccines have been acquired to date, according to the government, yet aid agencies say several more million are needed to contain the outbreak.
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Foods like Plumpy'Nut and Plumpy'Sup, an enriched peanut paste, can rescue these children — but only if aid agencies have the resources to provide the food and can gain access.
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Governments and aid agencies have turned family planning into a wholly one-sided campaign, dedicated to minimising teenage pregnancies and unwanted births; it has come to mean family restriction.
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The Islamist group has killed at least 20,000 people, uprooted more than 2.7 million and sparked one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world, according to aid agencies.
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In all three countries, survivors have been digging through rubble to search for victims, and scrambling for shelter, food and water, while governments and aid agencies rush in help.
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Since then, the group has become a private company, providing communications for the British armed forces, aircraft, ships, broadcasters, aid agencies and governments through its fleet of 13 satellites.
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The Kenyan government has announced that it plans to expel hundreds of thousands of refugees, a move that aid agencies say would violate international law and endanger many people.
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He urged policy makers and aid agencies to support local communities so they are able to make the decisions that affect them on the future use of their land.
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UNICEF is one of only a few aid agencies with access to the isolated country, which suffered famine in the mid-1990s that killed up to three million people.
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As new accounts emerged of atrocities in Rakhine state, where government forces claim to be targeting "terrorists," Downing Street called on Myanmar's government to permit access for aid agencies.
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U.N. aid agencies lack access to most of eastern Ghouta, from which rebels are withdrawing under a deal with the Syrian government that restored its control over the region.
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The monthly Health Cluster Bulletin, published by a group of health-focused aid agencies led by the World Health Organization, said aid workers were bracing for the Idlib battle.
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The United Nations and aid agencies have warned that an attack on Al Hudaydah could exacerbate an already out-of-control humanitarian crisis and called for a cease-fire.
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Many will have to move internally within the next 22016 years to get themselves out of harm's way, with or without the help of their governments and aid agencies.
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The Indonesian Red Cross and other aid agencies are trying to get relief supplies to the area, while soldiers and police are setting up shelters for those left homeless.
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Monica Zanarelli, the head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan called the attack "outrageous" and emphasized the difficulty aid agencies face in Afghanistan.
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North Korea has said it is facing droughts, and U.N. aid agencies have said food production fell "dramatically" last year, leaving more than 10 million North Koreans at risk.
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Of the $612 million required by aid agencies in Afghanistan in 2019, only $14.2 million has been donated so far, the United Nations said at the end of February.
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Raed Saleh, the head of the Syria Civil Defense, was to accept the award from InterAction, an alliance of aid agencies, at its gala dinner Tuesday night in Washington.
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Aid agencies that are transparent, self-examining and willing to admit to their mistakes, internally and externally, are more likely to be effective and less likely to do harm.
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A new wave of displacement would add to the complex protection and security challenges confronting Iraqi authorities and aid agencies as the battle against the Islamic State moves forward.
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Persistent heavy rain has turned their makeshift camp of around 50 small tents provided by aid agencies into a quagmire and daytime temperatures are only around 5 degrees centigrade.
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The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an alliance of 33 leading British aid agencies, are raising funds for South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, which have been hit by drought.
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"To improve education, we must first involve women," said Tom, attributing the differences between local schools and refugee schools to the sensitization done by aid agencies in the camps.
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Aid agencies have said they will not provide support for a new internment camp or detention zone, according to several aid workers, due to the risk of rights violations.
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Months of monitoring allowed aid agencies to deliver assistance quickly when things worsened, said Getachew Kalayu, head of planning and coordination with local non-profit Relief Society of Tigray (REST).
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But the general wariness is encouraging for health officials who remember how mistrust of doctors, nurses, authorities and western aid agencies made containment more difficult during the 2013-16 epidemic.
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Children are prey to attacks, detention and sexual violence, as well as the threat of diseases and malnutrition, several aid agencies have told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in recent weeks.
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He said the battle for east Mosul had not proved as dire a humanitarian catastrophe as aid agencies had originally feared, nor as swift a victory as the coalition hoped.
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But an average of 2,000 South Sudanese arriving every day since July has left aid agencies unable to cope, forcing some refugees back into the violence to feed their families.
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A survey of aid agencies polled by the Thomson Reuters Foundation found the crisis in Congo to be the "most neglected" of 2017, outranking Yemen and the Central African Republic.
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Mozambique hopes to attract donors, development banks and aid agencies with cash and technical expertise to the conference May 31 to June 1 in the devastated port city of Beira.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies are feeding life-saving peanut paste to thousands of starving Rohingya children who fled violence in Myanmar, amid warnings of a looming "catastrophe".
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Frantic preparations are being made to prepare camps for as many as 700,000 people leaving Mosul -- but aid agencies can only guess how many will flee and in which directions.
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Aid groups and western diplomats have criticized a lack of transparency in the process of expulsion and the review of appeals by the aid agencies, saying they crimped humanitarian work.
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Aid agencies are providing life-saving curative and preventive nutrition services in Eastern Ghouta, through five health facilities and seven mobile clinics in Douma, Harasta and Kafr Batna, it said.
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Aid agencies have tried to help, but only after a sustained social media campaign did the U.N. manage to broker an agreement with the Syrian government to access the city.
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Aid agencies and authorities had erected tents along the route to the border, but many male migrants slept outside on the ground, lighting camp fires against the winter morning chill.
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A lack of funding has made it difficult for the authorities and aid agencies to bring the outbreak under control, and so has the on-going conflict in northeastern Congo.
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The agreement, reached in the Russian city of Sochi in September, averted an expected Syrian army offensive on the northwest which aid agencies warned would precipitate a massive humanitarian crisis.
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Sporadic skirmishes have taken place but the ceasefire has put on hold an anticipated assault by the Saudi-led coalition that aid agencies feared would have terrible consquences for civilians.
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Tens of thousands of people have been killed during the conflict in Yemen, many of them civilians, and aid agencies say the humanitarian crisis is the worst in the world.
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Up to 20,000 are thought to remain in the surrounding areas, but aid agencies say these are just estimates as they have been without access to Tal Afar since 2014.
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Hundreds of millions of people in crisis-prone communities are not mapped, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said, and without this data, aid agencies are unable to effectively plan for emergencies.
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Tensions have flared between the government and aid agencies over the scale of hunger in the northeast, which is suffering from a lack of funding from international donors, experts say.
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The ALCS report comes at a time when 20 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces are suffering from serious drought and international aid agencies are seeking millions of dollars to help them.
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Ranking Foreign Aid Agency Best Practices: New Donors, New Findings reviews foreign aid agencies based on criteria they developed using five categories: transparency, overhead costs, specialization, selectivity, and ineffective channels.
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One potential solution would be a multistakeholder partnership among companies including tobaocco companies, NGOs, governments, universities and aid agencies to design something like a "tobacco buyout" for the developing world.
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Aid agencies say the Boko Haram insurgency and the shrinking of Lake Chad have created one of the world's most neglected crises with about 11 million people dependent on aid.
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Inadequate contributions from rich governments mean U.N. and other aid agencies cannot meet the needs of 13.5 million people whose lives have been overturned by the Syria war, for example.
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This new approach by international aid agencies in southern Chad is also being rolled out in the east for refugees from Sudan, as well as in other parts of Africa.
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Nonprofit groups and aid agencies have spent $247.2 million in 2016 to fight polio with the Nigerian government, more than they have spent on any other country in the world.
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"The figure could be way, way higher," Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the refugee agency, said, adding that the violence was preventing aid agencies from gaining access to the area.
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Conditions in eastern Ghouta, besieged since 2013, had increasingly alarmed aid agencies even before the latest assault, as shortages of food, medicine and other basic necessities caused suffering and illness.
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Aid agencies also said North Korea has approached them for help, and that masks and test kits are now slowly making their way across its border with China, Reuters reported.
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Libya has not yet confirmed any cases of the coronavirus, but international aid agencies and local health officials have warned that its conflict will make combating an outbreak very difficult.
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Aid agencies have described Yemen as the worst place on earth to be a child, with the conflict claiming the lives of at least 85,000 under the age of five.
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According to the aid agencies, in Arsal alone there are 5,682 hard structures made of concrete that are set to be included in demolition plans, hosting more than 25,000 people.
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It follows reports from aid agencies on the ground detailing how entire villages and towns have been completely flooded in the wake of last Thursday's high-end Category 2 storm.
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In Somalia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, aid agencies are scrambling to prepare for what they say could become one of the largest humanitarian crises since World War II. _____ 6.
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As Southeast Asia's largest economy and a member of the G20 nations, Indonesia is increasingly leading the drive to tackle these issues instead of relying on donors, aid agencies say.
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Aid agencies have set up safe spaces in Kutupalong camp - colorful rooms or outside areas - where women and children who are victims of sexual assault can find counseling and support.
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In much of eastern Aleppo, fresh water is still scarce, and containers must be filled by hand from tanks supplied by aid agencies, according to a recent report from Reuters.
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The makeshift camp in Belgrade sprang up as people were pushed back – sometimes violently, according to migrants and aid agencies – from the borders of neighboring countries further along the route.
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Aid agencies are also struggling to house asylum-seekers because of a shortage of accommodation in the four cities most affected by the migration wave - Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver.
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Aid agencies who are at the forefront of dealing with the influx say they are struggling and need more funding, a comprehensive long-term plan and better coordination with Ottawa.
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Canada has no formal system for integrating refugee claimants and depends heavily on aid agencies that operate independently but are funded through a combination of government grants and private donations.
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Aid agencies have distributed food baskets and blankets, jerry cans, mattresses and plastic sheeting for thousands of newly displaced people and are preparing to scale up the response, she said.
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Aid agencies have called on Italy to immediately allow the migrants to disembark in the port of Catania, accusing Salvini of taking them hostage in his standoff with European neighbors.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing mental health services for children who have survived Nigeria's Islamist insurgency can help prevent future violence, aid agencies said on Monday, although huge needs remain unmet.
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Until the mines are cleared, nothing can be done here -- people can't go home, or certainly can't go home safely, and even other aid agencies can't safely come to help rebuild.
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"In due course when we have some experience with it, we would like to extend it to other partners," Beagle said, referring to aid agencies, non-governmental organizations and other groups.
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"The risk is definitely not over yet," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone, adding that aid agencies have set up treatment centres and are trucking in water in response.
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More than a dozen aid agencies have signed a joint letter to UN Security Council members reminding them of the importance of protecting civilians and allowing their humanitarian efforts to continue.
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"It is radically difficult to divert food," he said, adding that the international aid agencies involved in the distribution of aid would have spoken out if they had noticed any wrongdoing.
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In at least two private correspondences with U.N. member states and aid agencies this year, UNVIM officials voiced frustration that the Saudi-led coalition stopped or delayed vessels they had cleared.
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Up to a quarter of a million people are trapped by the fighting in and around the city, where aid agencies say a mounting humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day.
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Conflict in Yemen was his "biggest worry" due to restricted access for assistance and the slow movement of goods, forcing aid agencies to use longer and costlier routes to supply food.
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Pleas from the UN, neighbouring governments, aid agencies and even her fellow Nobel laureates to curb the violence and allow humanitarian aid to flow to the victims have had no effect.
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Aid agencies stand poised to distribute much-needed assistance but say they are awaiting guarantees of security from all parties before beginning their deliveries to hundreds of thousands of desperate Syrians.
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Although awareness about malnutrition has increased in the last few decades, aid agencies still struggle to provide a balanced diet in poor, remote places, said several nutrition advisors for international charities.
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Thousands of migrants are staying in squalid, makeshift camps in Bihac and the surrounding towns, relying on limited support of the local Red Cross and a couple of international aid agencies.
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So far, efforts to introduce cleaner stoves that burn less fuel have been led mainly by aid agencies working in rural parts of Africa and Asia - and have had limited success.
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Some 1.4 million of the displaced are now residing in camps and communities in Borno state, where aid agencies are offering free health services in camp clinics and state health centers.
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While the government ensures cheap prices for bread in the areas under its control and aid agencies offer supported prices in some areas, Syrians elsewhere complain of shortages and high prices.
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This first week of June, aid agencies in the DRC announced that more than 28500,6900 people had been infected with Ebola since the outbreak was declared in August of last year.
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Accounts of horror More than 615,000 Rohingya refugees have fled the country since August 25, according to aid agencies, pouring into neighboring Bangladesh, which has struggled to deal with the influx.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees may be pressured to return to their war-ravaged homeland this year, despite continuing violence, leading aid agencies said on Monday.
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As COVID-219 threatens Moria, and other camps like it in Europe and the Middle East, aid agencies are scrambling to prepare for what they fear will be a devastating outbreak.
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For aid agencies, the water's retreat allowed better access to scores of communities that had been cut off by the cyclone, which hit last Thursday, and by the floods that followed.
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In 2016, Doctors Without Borders was one of 25 international aid agencies that signed a new memorandum with the government of Pakistan that formally allowed it to operate in the country.
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The country has also asked hospitals in South Korea and several international aid agencies for masks and test machines, Reuters reported last Friday, citing two sources with knowledge of the matter.
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The northwest offensive has prompted warnings by the United Nations and aid agencies of a new humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people seeking shelter at the border with Turkey.
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Aid agencies working with refugees have cited concerns over the loss of property and conscription into the Syrian army as big reasons discouraging Syrians from returning, along with fear of reprisals.
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In a statement at the end of a visit to Burkina, 11 U.N. aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, said that the insecurity had also crippled the health and education sectors.
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The war has severely hit food supplies in Yemen and millions of people are at risk of starvation in what aid agencies describe as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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The actual lesson here, however, isn't that refugee camps should be disorganized but that aid agencies should trust refugees with money rather than rely on a condescending system of segregated accounts.
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Aid agencies now have "a critical opportunity to tackle the alarming levels of food insecurity in northeast Nigeria," Tim Vaessen, FAO's emergency and response manager in Nigeria, said in a statement.
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Aid agencies said a lack of funding is the main obstacle to delivering a range of services from education and healthcare to water and sanitation and psychosocial support across the region.
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International law bounds all warring parties to respect and protect medical personnel, but the provision is largely disregarded, with hospital and medics often deliberately targeted in conflict areas, aid agencies say.
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But developing states and aid agencies have complained in Madrid that the mechanism has achieved little in terms of offering real help, and will struggle to do so without dedicated finance.
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At least 1 million people are displaced, and aid agencies struggle to care for them in a country that has a limited road network and a scarcely functioning police and army.
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But with no electricity, heat or water and many homes looted, some have asked to return to shelters despite the cold, uncomfortable conditions there as aid agencies scramble to catch up.
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While more food has begun to arrive, Dr. Roberts said in a recent interview, the flow was seriously slowed for months by a struggle between the Nigerian government and aid agencies.
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The hard-liners among the Taliban under the influence of Osama bin Laden had forced Western aid agencies to leave Afghanistan, and the country faced a severe famine and economic crisis.
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International aid agencies are increasingly expressing worries about obstacles to the delivery of fuel and aid caused by the tight blockade Saudi Arabia imposed on Yemen after the first missile attack.
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And with no political solution on the horizon — the U.N. cites reports that the two main factions in the war are mobilizing — aid agencies worry the situation will soon grow uncontainable.
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There have already been more than 160 landslides, 30 people injured and one toddler killed, according to the Inter Sector Coordination Group, or ISCG, which oversees the aid agencies in the camps.
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In northeastern Nigeria, hit by a seven-year insurgency by Boko Haram Islamist militants, a study backed by U.N. and other aid agencies suggests famine occurred in 2016 and could be ongoing.
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The "Big Shift Global" coalition of aid agencies and climate justice campaigners said the World Bank Group's new commitment signaled that developing countries should receive far more support to tackle climate change.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Tanzanian government and aid agencies have dispatched medical workers, food and shelter materials to the northwest region where an earthquake at the weekend killed 16.
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While the government ensures cheap prices for bread in the areas under its control and aid agencies offer supported prices in some areas, Syrians elsewhere complain of bread shortages and high prices.
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Hong Kong is one of the most important Catholic cities in Asia, home to an extensive network of aid agencies, missions, scholars and media that have supported Catholics in China and elsewhere.
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And with natural disasters expected to grow in frequency and intensity as the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt, governments and aid agencies have been seeking alternative funding to provide help.
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Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in camps in Bangladesh began a protest, demanding that Bangladesh recognize their ethnicity as Rohingya and that officials and aid agencies stop sharing their family information with Myanmar.
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Kamara is one of thousands who lost everything in the mudslide and is now living in one of several camps set up by the government with the help of international aid agencies.
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Doctors, universities and aid agencies must respond by sharing experience and expertise, and by adapting research and medical practices, said Abu-Sittah and other participants at a conflict medicine conference at AUBMC.
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However, the opposition and aid agencies decry that policy as one of "starve or surrender", saying it will make it harder in the long run to heal wounds of the civil war.
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The army did not immediately comment on the aid agencies' statement, but a security source said the military had been carrying out checks to make sure refugee dwellings were sticking to regulations.
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As Boko Haram has been forced back, the government and aid agencies have been able to assess for the first time the extent of the humanitarian disaster left in the jihadists' wake.
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Unlike aid agencies and relief groups, which are regulated by national laws, the U.N. can withold information from governments or the public and can essentially play by their own rules, she said.
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Here are what some aid agencies are anticipating: STEPHEN O'BRIEN, U.N. UNDER SECRETARY GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Families are at extreme risk of being caught in cross-fire or targeted by snipers.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Environmentalists and aid agencies urged executives of the world's top oil companies attending a Vatican conference on climate change on Friday to heed Pope Francis's warnings about global warming.
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Aid agencies that work with refugees have cited concerns over the loss of property and conscription into the Syrian army as big reasons discouraging Syrians from returning, along with fear of reprisals.
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He was speaking ahead of the release of an updated action plan by aid agencies for the region, which also looks at how to stop the next major drought becoming a crisis.
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The United States military estimates that between 500 and 1,000 Islamic State fighters remain in Falluja, and aid agencies have estimated the civilian population left in the city at 50,000 to 100,000.
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To tackle the stigma, several aid agencies have set up menstrual hygiene clubs at schools across the country where girls can make their own reusable cotton sanitary pads with removable waterproof linings.
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Aid agencies working in developing countries to reduce the risks of disasters said the partnership must also look at ways to help vulnerable communities prepare better for climate threats, besides providing insurance.
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The gathering of governments, aid agencies and private companies in Istanbul on May 21-2700 comes as officials warn of ever-increasing humanitarian needs due to conflicts, natural disasters and climate change.
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Since Monday, Riyadh has prevented aid agencies from landing planes in the country and docking at Yemen's ports, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation, said UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock on Wednesday.
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Government and aid agencies prepared for the threat of Typhoon Haima, coming days after another storm, Typhoon Sarika, dumped heavy rains and lashed the northern part of the country with fierce winds.
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The aid agencies, which also included Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, Danish Refugee Council and International Rescue Committee, also said that Syria's shattered infrastructure could not support an influx of returnees.
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Daraya, only 12km (seven miles) from Damascus, has been besieged by the government since 2012, but aid agencies gained access to the town during a humanitarian cessation of hostilities earlier this year.
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A parliamentary watchdog and aid agencies criticized plans by Britain's foreign aid agency, the Department for International Development (DFID), to focus on "trade as an engine for poverty reduction", announced in January.
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"(Aid agencies) know that in certain situations such as disasters, the negative imagery works," said David Girling, a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia and lead author of the report.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations aid agencies welcomed a migration deal reached by European Union leaders on Friday but urged the bloc to prioritize the lives and safety of migrants in its approach.
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On Wednesday morning, humanitarian aid agencies and government officials were scrambling to supply help to Haiti's southwest and coastal towns after a major bridge between Port-au-Prince and the south collapsed.
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Cyclone Idai: The widespread destruction from the huge storm was being called the worst disaster in southern Africa in two decades as rescuers and aid agencies tried to reach countless people marooned.
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On Sunday, rescue workers from domestic aid agencies trickled into Palu, having driven at least 20 hours from the nearest major airport to set up their command centers in the devastated city.
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They have crossed land borders, rivers and treacherous seas to seek refuge in crowded camps in Bangladesh, itself a poor country struggling, along with international aid agencies, to cope with the influx.
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In a statement, MSF's head of mission in Chad, Rolland Kaya, called for more aid agencies to step in to improve water sanitation in the region amid mounting cases of the disease.
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But in this particular incident, aside from harsh words from the UN and aid agencies and the US calling for an investigation, most of the world's capitals have had a muted response.
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After that trip, Nott took long periods of unpaid leave from his jobs at various London hospitals to volunteer for humanitarian-aid agencies in other areas afflicted by war and natural disaster.
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Central African Republic is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for aid agencies, with at least 33 attacks on aid workers in the first quarter of 2017, OCHA says.
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Communities are working with aid agencies to provide assistance and evacuate residents in affected areas, the government's Commissioner for Disaster Preparedness and Management Martin Owor told Nile Broadcasting Television Services on Friday.
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On Wednesday morning, humanitarian aid agencies and government officials were scrambling to supply help to Haiti's southwest and coastal towns after a major bridge between Port Au Prince and the south collapsed.
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President Bashir's decree that aid agencies inside the rebel-held Blue Nile would be considered opposition supporters—combined with the regular bombings of public spaces—motivated humanitarian organizations to leave the area.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Southern African governments and donors must respond swiftly to the regional drought emergency triggered by El Niño, aid agencies said on Thursday, with millions in the region facing hunger.
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Aid agencies involved in the evacuation plans were told by Syrian authorities to leave the area on Friday, with no explanation given, Elizabeth Hoff, the World Health Organization's representative in Syria, told reporters.
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Roadblocks set up by the UPC and rival armed groups have rendered the city and nearby villages almost totally inaccessible to international aid agencies and leave IDPs unable to their lives and work.
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In 2011, when Somalia was last hit by drought, the declaration of famine forced America to change the rules that were stopping aid agencies from supplying food to territory held by al-Shabab.
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The use of drone footage of refugees entering Bangladesh has boosted donations for medical care, water and food, according to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an alliance of 13 leading British aid agencies.
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JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday promised aid agencies safe access to hunger-stricken civilians, a day after his government declared a famine in parts of the war-ravaged country.
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While aid agencies have swooped in to help migrants still stranded in the town, local people feel increasingly marginalized, said Ottilia Maunganidze, a migration analyst at the Africa-based Institute for Security Studies.
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Inside ISIS-held Mosul: Resistance defying occupation Both the aid agencies and military commanders say the priority is to keep people in their homes or accommodate them in liberated parts of the city.
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The majority of Syrian refugees have no legal status in Lebanon due to the complications and costs of obtaining or renewing residency rights under rules imposed by the Lebanese government, aid agencies say.
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Around three million people in Mali do not have enough to eat, and some 500,000 in conflict-hit areas in the north need urgent food aid, according to aid agencies in the region.
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To relieve pressure on the morgue, authorities and aid agencies were preparing to bury the bodies in four different cemeteries across Freetown, said Idalia Amaya, an emergency response coordinator for Catholic Relief Services.
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This month, we are asking aid agencies across the world to fund a total of 1 million school places for Syrian refugees across Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey at a cost of $500 million.
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For Nigeria, aid agencies working on the crisis have so far received only 19 percent of the money appealed for, according to Peter Lundberg, the U.N.'s deputy humanitarian coordinator for the country.
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Access in Rakhine state remains limited for aid agencies, leaving tens of thousands cut off from much-needed healthcare and other life-saving services - as pressure on Rohingya to return to Myanmar mounts.
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BBC reports that aid agencies have been struggling to access affected areas due to damage at Palu's main airport, roads cut off by landslides, and power is out across much of the region.
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Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from mainly Buddhist Myanmar's northern Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh following a military response to Rohingya insurgent attacks, the United Nations and aid agencies have said.
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Although aid agencies are offering much more mental health care in emergencies than just a few years ago, the gap between what is in place and what is needed remains huge, he said.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An influx of thousands of people fleeing Islamic State has created "dire" conditions at the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, the aid agencies working there said on Tuesday.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five international aid agencies have temporarily suspended their operations in northern Central African Republic due to attacks on aid workers by armed groups, the United Nations said on Friday.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International aid agencies in Central African Republic have suspended operations in three towns amid escalating violence between armed factions and attacks on humanitarians, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A big influx of returnees from Pakistan and Iran would challenge the government and aid agencies, as Afghanistan is already struggling with large numbers of internally displaced people, the United Nations has said.
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Britain's Start Network, which includes 42 leading aid agencies such as Oxfam, Care International and Save the Children, has teamed up with social enterprise start up Disberse to use blockchain, the network said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens of migrants are at risk of freezing to death in Europe after heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures hit Greece and the Balkans, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
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Between 35 and 2017, 34 out of 57 aid agencies working in southern Chad pulled out due to a lack of funding, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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Humanitarian assistance to North Korea is excluded from the punitive measures levied against Pyongyang, but aid agencies have said the process of receiving an exemption can be onerous and full of red tape.
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Aid agencies and most governments do not pay ransoms, he said, but payments are sometimes made by third parties such as businessmen with connections to the country where a hostage is being held.
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This report comes weeks after a preliminary report found over 500 allegations of sexual abuse were received by lead aid agencies like OXFAM and CARE in 2018, a 13 percent increase from 2017.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food shortages and a jihadist uprising in northern Burkina Faso risk plunging the region into a humanitarian crisis if urgent action is not taken, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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But escalating violence will make it difficult for aid agencies to help in the remote area about 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of capital Ouagadougou, the Red Cross and the United Nations said.
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Aid agencies are ramping up their responses as fast as they can, but with thousands more refugees arriving every day, it's a race against time just to keep people in these camps alive.
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Representatives of aid agencies and human rights organizations tell VICE News that U.S. defense officials have been trying to sell the offensive to them as an opportunity to improve humanitarian access to Yemen.
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Zeid also noted that the recent sanctions have caused difficulty for aid agencies on the ground, specifically the stringent banking restrictions, and asked the Security Council investigate the human rights impact of sanctions.
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International aid agencies say they have heard reports that hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh to escape the crackdown and that others were shot dead as they headed for the border.
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And it wants Mr. Sisi to rescind a draconian law regulating aid agencies that he signed last year, which could make it virtually impossible for many international aid groups to work in Egypt.
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Reuters reported last week that North Korean officials had asked aid agencies for supplies such as masks and testing kits, though such supplies were reportedly awaiting entry on North Korea's heavily protected border.
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U.N. aid agencies are ready to deliver life-saving aid and evacuate critically wounded from the rebel-held Damascus enclave of eastern Ghouta, where 400,000 people have been living under siege, Guterres said.
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Emergency responders from the U.S. Coast Guard, aid agencies, and the British Navy have been rescuing those stranded on the islands, as well as delivering food and drinking water to those in need.
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It is part of a much broader European Union strategy to keep migrants from its shores, including paying billions of euros to Turkey and more than $100 million to aid agencies in Sudan.
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Last month the government of Myanmar accused aid agencies of colluding with Rohingya militants, a claim that Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, called unsupported and irresponsible.
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After lingering off the coast for days, gathering strength, Idai finally dumped a huge amount of water on Beira -- a city of 500,000 people -- destroying "90%" of the area, according to aid agencies.
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We ate some fast food, moved tables, wrote the phone numbers of legal aid agencies on our arms in surgical marker in case we were arrested, and hung up "Black Lives Matter" signs.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria is in the throes of its worst fighting since the battle for eastern Aleppo last year, with heavy air strikes causing hundreds of civilian casualties, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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The Damascus government subsidises bread for the areas it controls and aid agencies offer supported prices in some areas, but Syrians in other parts of the country suffer bread shortages and high prices.
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Aid agencies and Serbian authorities have different explanations for why the migrants are sleeping rough, rather than in the better-appointed – albeit nearly full to capacity – government-run asylum centers across the country.
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Vancouver has asked the British Columbia provincial government for more money for refugee aid agencies, said city spokesman Jag Sandhu, and the province has promised C$6 million a year over three years.
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The death toll is likely to rise, according to the Union of Medical Care Organizations, a coalition of international aid agencies that funds hospitals in Syria and which is partly based in Paris.
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And as EU authorities cut funding for aid agencies working to help refugees, there will be even less support available to many when they do make it to a place of relative safety.
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Abdi Farah, an official at the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) in Maiduguri told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that some areas still controlled by Boko Haram are out of the reach of aid agencies.
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The U.N. on Wednesday called on Myanmar to give aid agencies unhindered access to camps it has built for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees after agreeing a deal with Bangladesh on their return.
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Italy says more than 36,000 have been rescued this year, up 44 percent on the same period of last year, while aid agencies estimate that up to 1,000 have died, including about 150 children.
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The lack of security and accessibility, inadequate funding and the proliferation of weapons are just a few of the overlapping crises in CAR, making the delivery of aid a constant headache for aid agencies.
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Once a migrant has made it across a border, by whatever means, governments and aid agencies will attempt to monitor his movements by adding him to one of a number of increasingly sophisticated databases.
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But Sarah Jackson, Amnesty's deputy regional director for East Africa, the Horn, and the Great Lakes, said in a statement that the scale of the emergency had overwhelmed governmental and international aid agencies' efforts.
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A local relief committee that interacts with aid agencies reported that 32 people had died from hunger in the past month, Bettina Luescher, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, told reporters in Geneva.
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WFP and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) are among only a few aid agencies with access to North Korea, which suffered a famine in the mid-1990s that killed up to 3 million people.
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The EU-Turkey deal, which has drawn fire from rights groups and aid agencies, was designed to close off the main route into Europe, used by around a million refugees and migrants last year.
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They threatened to riot for fear that the census would show fewer people in the camp than previously — which, in turn, would lead to aid agencies cutting back the amount of food they delivered.
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Aid agencies have become alarmed about civilian suffering in a city that has been under siege for six months, and the United Nations has urged combatants to protect inhabitants trying to escape the fighting.
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"Despite efforts by the refugees and aid agencies to strengthen huts, build safer infrastructure, and develop safety plans, the camps and their residents have remained highly vulnerable to catastrophic weather conditions," the report adds.
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Some required urgent medical assistance, and the Libyan coast guard has allowed international aid agencies to provide treatment and food supplies on board, said Julien Raickman, Libya mission head for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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Aid agencies mostly rely on the army and its convoys for access to other parts of the state and in many camps for displaced people it is the military distributing food and medical supplies.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Fijian government and international aid agencies began delivering much needed aid on Wednesday to the Pacific nation's remote islands and coastal villages devastated by a powerful cyclone that killed 42 people.
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Just a few hundred meters from the glitzy offices of embassies and aid agencies, flies swarm over mountains of plastic bags, rotten food and other waste, which locals have named after Africa's highest peak.
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Responders face twin obstacles: resistance from communities who believe that Ebola is a conspiracy made up by aid agencies and the government, and from armed groups seeking to stoke instability for their own gain.
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Exhausted, hungry, and many of them injured, they rely on aid agencies and sympathetic locals to hand out food supplies to them But after dusk, with the cloak of darkness, thousands make their move.
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Across the camps, teenage boys can be seen playing football and volleyball on flattened areas of ground, while aid agencies have set up youth clubs, community centers and art projects to get them involved.
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"They (aid agencies) will face difficulties in continuing to provide lifesaving health services at the scale that is required as a result mainly of the declining humanitarian funding," he said in a phone interview.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian state media reported on Thursday that a ceasefire had been agreed in the last rebel bastion in the country, the northwest, where aid agencies say a government offensive is growing bloodier.
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In some instances, aid agencies have turned to a powerful Shiite militia, Kataib Hezbollah, which is controlled by Iran and in charge of an important checkpoint in Anbar, to get aid to the displaced.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled an economic and political crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.
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Aid agencies said they were concerned cyclone Winston could cause severe damage after it hit northern islands earlier this week, especially after a prolonged El Nino-induced drought weakened livestock and crops across Tonga.
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Osotimehin urged world leaders and aid agencies gathering for the first humanitarian summit in Istanbul, Turkey, later this month to make women's and girls needs a key part of the humanitarian response as standard.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi tweeted Monday that he "instructed civil defense teams and health and aid agencies to do all that they can to provide assistance" to those affected by the quake.
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The United Nations and aid agencies have warned of a new humanitarian catastrophe in northwest Syria, as hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes since the government's offensive began in late April.
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The initiative, led by aid agencies Farm Africa and Mercy Corps, is part of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) program, funded by the UK Department for International Development.
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The government is investigating allegations of food aid being stolen and sold by state officials in Borno, and has said that aid agencies are exaggerating hunger levels to get more funding from international donors.
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Under the pact, African nations hosting refugees would be able to access funds from Western nations, the private sector and international financial institutions to support those who have been forcibly displaced, aid agencies said.
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Accordingly, the Myanmar government has blocked aid agencies' access to Rohingya still trapped in Myanmar — about 120,000 confined to camps in central Rakhine and tens of thousands more in desperate conditions in the north.
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For months, aid agencies have feared the arrival of coronavirus in the world's largest refugee settlement, the sprawling camps of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where about 855,000 people live in overcrowded and dirty conditions.
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International and local aid agencies, which run most of Afghanistan's humanitarian and social programs and many schools and hospitals, have been forced to take snap decisions on whether or not to continue providing aid.
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First, at the Leona Vicario shelter in Juarez, Mexican authorities and international aid agencies care for hundreds of asylum seekers, bereft of resources, and fleeing gang violence under the government's "Remain in Mexico" protocol.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Young girls in southern Africa are selling sex - sometimes for less than the cost of bread - to survive a hunger crisis ensnaring tens of millions, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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Aid agencies seek police protection Katwa and Butembo are in North Kivu, a province grappling with a long-term conflict and dozens of armed groups causing intermittent violence, according to the World Health Organization.
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"Our target audience is not simply national governments but also aid agencies and donors who are substantially underinvesting in non-communicable diseases relative to the amount of ill health that they cause," Ezzati said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Twelve aid agencies in the Yemeni town of al-Dhalea have stopped work after attacks on their buildings that the United Nations called an "alarming escalation" amid media campaigns against aid organizations.
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Northern Aceh province bore the brunt of the disaster, where a total of 128,858 were killed and another 37,087 are still listed as missing, according to data compiled by the government and aid agencies.
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The deadline runs out at the end of today but aid agencies have told VICE News that they now believe they may be given until Monday to clear the area before bulldozers come in.
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Jordan has been a big beneficiary of foreign aid because of its efforts to help refugees but has drawn criticism from Western allies and aid agencies over the humanitarian situation at Rakban, diplomats say.
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Yet several aid agencies such as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Plan International have been forced to temporarily suspend their operations in recent months, as militants loot humanitarian compounds, attack staff and raid health facilities.
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Aid agencies have traditionally supported these displaced populations by providing food, but today, the programs range from irrigation and agriculture efforts—including seed germination—to wheat milling, rebuilding destroyed mills, and providing flour to bakeries.
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"Alarmed by the huge and unexpected surge in recent months in the number of new cases, a number of aid agencies and implementing partners have expressed concerns over many aspects of the response," it reads.
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Some Rohingya communities have also been off-limits to aid agencies on security grounds for more than two months, raising fears about the welfare of a population that was already experiencing high rates of malnutrition.
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Mmaphaka Tau, deputy director general of South Africa's National Disaster Management Centre, said his country planned to implement the guide's recommendations with the help of aid agencies, as a basis to make communities more resilient.
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Aid agencies may try during the ceasefire to reach families trapped in towns and villages where fighting and coalition-imposed travel curbs have left people short of food and in need of vital medical supplies.
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Aid agencies say the crisis is a "mega-disaster" and are trying to raise over $2 billion to respond but Congo's government has accused them of exaggerating the situation and boycotted a recent donor conference.
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DAKAR, May 473 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four international aid agencies have temporarily suspended their operations in northern Central African Republic due to attacks on aid workers by armed groups, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Aid agencies have become increasingly alarmed about civilian suffering in a city that has been under siege for six months, and the United Nations has urged combatants to protect inhabitants trying to escape the fighting.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's expulsion of 18 international aid agencies will hurt 11 million aid recipients in a South Asian nation grappling with perilously low standards of education and healthcare, two Western diplomats said on Tuesday.
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The campaign that began in earnest late last month has also killed dozens, destroyed hundreds of civilian homes, more than a dozen hospitals and food stores, according to opposition-based rescuers and Western aid agencies.
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He also declined to say if he thought aid agencies were getting proper access to the conflict zone in Myanmar, though he said it was important to ensure that people were safe where they were.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After a year of record humanitarian needs, 2017 looks set to be even more challenging for aid agencies as they brace for the fallout from protracted conflicts and other escalating crises.
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"Aid agencies are not necessarily being targeted, but criminality prevails in some areas where they are acting," Anouk Desgroseilliers, public information officer for OCHA, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from the capital Bamako.
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Cholera epidemics usually subside once the disease passes through a population, but aid agencies say the Yemen epidemic lasted longer and spread wider than they initially expected because of the war's toll on health care.
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Serving companies, aid agencies and even churches, the Congo Call Center (CCC) handles queries from 8,22012 people each day on everything from problems with phone bills to spiritual anxiety and domestic abuse or sexual violence.
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Yet Faye has argued that it can, at the very least, serve as a benchmark against which to measure the impact of other interventions, requiring aid agencies to collect data and justify many longstanding approaches.
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They are worse off than the tens of thousands of refugees from Myanmar who live in camps in Thailand where they are registered with the UNHCR and served by aid agencies, activists and analysts say.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two years after pro-Islamic State militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, tens of thousands of people remain uprooted and rebuilding is slow, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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Minutes of a meeting of U.N. aid agencies in Damascus on March 16, including representatives of WFP and the U.N. humanitarian agency UNHCR, suggested aid convoys could soon take advantage of the new land route.
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Yemen has been locked in civil war for the past three years, with aid agencies warning that the country is in danger of tipping into famine if fighting continues to disrupt imports of food aid.
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Aid agencies have reported 80 cases where they have caused harm, or a risk of harm, to the Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales, since the sexual abuse scandal broke last month.
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Earlier on Thursday, medical sources and aid agencies said an air strikes by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia on a fishing port and fish market in Hodeidah killed 26 people and wounded 50 others.
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RAIN-DRENCHED CAMPS Aid agencies have warned of a malnutrition crisis with about 281,0003 people in Bangladesh in urgent need of food, including 145,000 children under five and more than 50,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women.
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Militants have looted humanitarian compounds and attacked health facilities, halting the work of aid agencies such as the International Rescue Committee and Plan International, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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African nations do not have the resources to ramp up infrastructure spending on their own, even with backing from aid agencies and multilateral donor institutions, Heathcote said, and so attracting private sector investment is essential.
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At least 313,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled across the border to Bangladesh since fighting broke out on August 25, according to the Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) in Bangladesh, which represents UN and aid agencies.
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"It doesn't come later, it comes now," she said, urging governments and aid agencies to help people deal with the changing weather by giving them better data about rainfall and support to change their livelihoods.
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Despite the alarming numbers at the berm, aid agencies and the government have been wary of speaking publicly about the refugee situation on the border because they did not want to anger the Jordanian government.
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"Counterfeit antimalarials are a billion-dollar industry, and new technologies are needed to stay ahead of criminal networks," said Wilson, adding that the tool could soon be adopted by state inspectors, pharmacies and aid agencies.
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Poor infrastructure and a lack of flood prevention measures such as coastal embankments and drainage systems, along with widespread deforestation, are likely to magnify damage from Irma as they did with Matthew, aid agencies say.
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A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll of 221 aid agencies, including large revenue-generating charities headquartered in the United States and Britain, also revealed scepticism that local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can meet donors' compliance standards.
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Aid agencies are providing machinery to keep roads clear to allow food and medicine to get through, setting up emergency medical centers and moving latrines to higher ground to prevent floods spreading disease, she said.
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As many as 14 million Yemenis are suffering severe food shortages, aid agencies say, while an estimated 0003,000 children under the age of 5 may have already died of starvation, according to Save the Children.
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Mr. de Mistura emphasized, though, that the success of any peace talks required a reduction of violence and improved access for aid agencies delivering food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of besieged civilians.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After enduring three years of war, hunger and disease, Yemenis could now be at heightened risk of catching malaria due to a collapsing health care system, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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While the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) has managed to quell the fighting and improve security, there has been a heavy spell of attacks on aid agencies, said Fabrizio Hochschild, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the country.
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And in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world's largest refugee camps—a complex of four in total—high speed internet called DadaabNet allows refugees to connect with aid agencies and other refugees, friends, or family.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly 9,000 mainly African migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean this past long weekend after being put by smugglers in Libya onto unseaworthy boats heading toward Italy, U.N. aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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With a lack of communications preventing a clear assessment of damage, aid agencies had not yet begun relief efforts, said Udaya Regmi, head of the International Red Cross in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby.
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The appeal on Saturday came as the Afghan government and aid agencies began delivering assistance to Ghazni, a city 90 miles south of the capital Kabul which was under a Taliban siege for several days.
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Millions are dependent on humanitarian aid in Yemen, but aid agencies in recent months have increasingly complained of interference and obstruction from Houthi authorities and threatened to scale down aid if conditions did not improve.
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As signs of a similar drought-heralding El Nino weather pattern formed five years later, aid agencies moved quickly and averted another famine and widescale loss of lives during a drought in 2016 and 2017.
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Millions are dependent on humanitarian aid in Yemen, but aid agencies in recent months have increasingly complained of interference and obstruction from Houthi authorities and threatened to scale down aid if conditions did not improve.
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The U.N. on Wednesday called on Myanmar to give aid agencies unhindered access to camps it has built for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees after agreeing to a deal with Bangladesh on their return.
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The attacks have killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds, and led to tens of thousands of people fleeing frontline areas to camps and towns closer to the Turkish border, rescuers and aid agencies said.
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Citing multiple aid agencies, a second report by The Times on Saturday said Oxfam failed to warn NGOs about the allegations, allowing some of those accused of sexual misconduct to secure employment with other organizations.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The United States said it would approve humanitarian assistance to North Korea to help international aid agencies fight the coronavirus there, amid fears that the impoverished country may be hiding an outbreak.
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Aid agencies like the World Food Programme (WFP), the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and UNICEF are among the last stabilizing forces left in a country that has been consumed by chaos for half a decade.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving more food aid in Ebola-struck parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could help stop the spread of the second-biggest outbreak in history, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
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Amnesty International called on foreign governments and international aid agencies to "ramp up" resources and assistance for thousands of people who have been displaced, and those who are trapped in the aftermath of the disaster.
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Representatives of four charities placed the image top in a survey asking aid agencies to rank the five most powerful photos related to a humanitarian issue, while several others had it in their top five.
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DAKAR, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food shortages and a jihadist uprising in northern Burkina Faso risk plunging the region into a humanitarian crisis if urgent action is not taken, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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In November, aid agencies Doctors Without Borders and Secours Catholique took legal recourse to demand improvements, causing a Lille court to order Pas-de-Calais authorities to begin working to identify unaccompanied minors in distress.
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Residents and local and international aid agencies that support the rebel-held areas say the sustained campaign that has bombed schools and knocked down medical centers was to smash the spirit of civilians in opposition areas.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cholera outbreak in overcrowded refugee camps in Uganda has killed about 40 people and infected more than 2,000 as health workers rush to stem the spread, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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The Nigerian government's rules about where aid agencies can go are simply accepted, even though starvation has been a weapon of choice for defeating insurgencies in Nigeria since the war over Biafran secession in the 1960s.
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Oil company Santos said on Sunday that it will donate US$200,000 to aid agencies in PNG for disaster relief on top of a US$1 million donation it has already provided to Hela Provincial Hospital.
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While the most severe cases - from schizophrenia to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - are referred to the one mental health facility in the northeast, millions of people suffering from trauma are going untreated, aid agencies say.
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The conventional wisdom for the humanitarian aid sector had been that most conflicts would be short-lived — and that aid agencies could rely on voluntary contributions from a handful of rich nations to meet those needs.
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The flow of returnees from not only Pakistan, but also Iran, is straining the capacity of the government and aid agencies as yet more Afghans are uprooted by the war between Taliban insurgents and Afghan troops.
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Britain will stop funding overseas aid agencies if they fail to learn the lessons from Oxfam's sex abuse scandal, and the government will discuss possible prosecutions with law enforcement, the British development minister said on Wednesday.
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It's the last resort for the farmer, who started selling his cattle after realizing his family could not survive only on vegetables from the garden or rely on food-for-work programs run by aid agencies.
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You may take a holiday overseas and find fear and loathing directed at you from people angry that services once provided by the US Agency for International Development or other foreign aid agencies no longer exist.
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More than two thirds of its health facilities have been damaged or destroyed by the violence since 2013, when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, triggering reprisals by Christian "anti-balaka" militias, according to aid agencies.
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And as fighting between the militants and the Nigerian army forces people to flee their homes, aid agencies are concerned that the virus could spread to neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon, and nearby Central African Republic.
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The total aid requirement to be presented in London amounts to nearly $2017 billion, including a U.N.-coordinated appeal by dozens of aid agencies for $228 billion and a $22015 billion request by regional host governments.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The outgoing head of the United Nation's food aid agency voiced concern on Monday that the Trump administration's proposed cuts for U.N. aid agencies would leave children hungry in crisis-hit areas.
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The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the region said on Friday that tens of thousands of people are dying of hunger because insecurity has prevented farmers tilling the land and made access for aid agencies almost impossible.
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Days after aid agencies were allowed to deliver food to the besieged Syrian town of Daraya for the first time since 2012, Francis said preventing supplies from reaching war zones was a violation of international law.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies could save more than $500 million by choosing clean energy over fossil fuels in war zones and disaster areas, global think-tank Chatham House said in a report on Monday.
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The northwest offensive has prompted warnings by the United Nations and aid agencies of a new humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people having fled the violence to seek shelter at the border with Turkey.
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Conditions in the border camps are bleak, with aid agencies struggling to provide enough food, shelter and healthcare in what the UN has described as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis and a major humanitarian emergency.
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Several aid agencies last month told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that Nigeria's rainy season could spread disease in already unsanitary displacement camps, and 350,000 uprooted children aged under five are at risk of cholera, UNICEF said.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 300,000 Congolese forced out of Angola have flooded into a conflict-prone region where they have no food or shelter, aid agencies said on Wednesday, warning of an emerging crisis.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies are reinforcing shelters, moving latrines and providing search and rescue training in the world's biggest refugee settlement in Bangladesh before monsoon rains strike in April, bringing deadly landslides and floods.
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Aid agencies are starting to provide mobile education in the remote cattle camps amid fears that South's Sudan's latest civil war is creating another "lost generation" of uneducated adults and country risks becoming a failed state.
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While aid agencies operating in North Korea need to be restrained in their reporting of the situation on the ground, eyewitness accounts from dissidents and others support evidence that many outside privileged circles have difficulty surviving.
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Aid agencies are coordinating with the government to distribute food and to monitor dengue outbreaks in Daru island off the southern coast near Australia, and probable cases in Kiunga in the west, near the Indonesian border.
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Aid agencies said this week that Yemen "faces a risk of famine" if there is prolonged and significant disruption to imports through its two key Red Sea ports, which also push food and fuel costs higher.
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Egeland said aid agencies need sustained access to civilians, rather than the familiar "stop-go" situation whereby Syria's government switches approvals for convoys on and off and some aid convoys get only conditional or partial clearance.
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NEW DELHI — Expressing concern about foreign influence on its policies, India is turning away from a decades-old practice of filling gaps within its health system with consultants hired by foreign aid agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
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LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - More aid agencies helping refugees and migrants arriving in Greece said they were joining a boycott of detention centers on Wednesday, angered at an EU deal they say runs roughshod over human rights.
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NGOs and aid agencies are lobbying Western governments with close ties to the Saudis to prevent the offensive, but the Trump administration has signaled an eagerness to push back against Iranian interference in the Middle East.
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With a record 65.3 million people uprooted by conflict or persecution worldwide in 2015, and urban populations booming across the globe, aid agencies say innovation is key to improving water and sanitation for camps and communities.
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Humanitarian charities have been shaken by reports of Oxfam staff using prostitutes in Haiti, the exploitation of Syrian women in return for aid, and the harassment of women in the head offices of global aid agencies.
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The Mozambique health ministry and aid agencies are collaborating on a campaign using radio and local health workers to tell people to seek help at the first sign of diarrhea and to be vaccinated against cholera.
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Aid agencies struggling to cope with high levels of malnutrition among children are now battling an outbreak of diphtheria, which the World Health Organization reported on Tuesday had struck more than 770 people and killed nine.
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"There is a big gap in health care facilities in the area, the government is not doing its work, which is why international and foreign aid agencies come in to fill the void," Dr. Rahman said.
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In the past, governments and U.N. officials said poor farmers move into the forest and grow cocaine because they lack better economic alternatives - prompting aid agencies to develop programs to encourage farmers to produce different crops.
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Another factor in the decision to limit funding to Egypt is the draconian law regulating aid agencies — particularly those funded by Western governments and organizations — which was signed into law by Mr. Sisi in late May.
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Sweden, Denmark and France also started checking documents of people attempting to enter at some border posts, following the arrival of more than a million refugees to Europe in 2015, according to estimates from aid agencies.
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Many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, aid agencies and Rohingya say, as their chances of resettlement in a third country evaporate amid anti-refugee sentiment in countries such as the United States.
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In Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, aid agencies are scrambling to prepare for what they say could be one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II. • The cost of a battle in Iraq.
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U.S.-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces are advancing on Mosul - Islamic State's de facto capital 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad - ahead of an offensive which aid agencies expect could happen in September or October.
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Armed with heavy weaponry and destroying bridges and roads, the militias are becoming emboldened and unpredictable, spreading fear among civilians and making it harder to support the displaced and those most in need, aid agencies say.
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Already battling against bad weather, tough terrain and obstructive bureaucracy, the Red Cross also ran into an angry mob, who believe the foreign aid agencies have ignored the suffering of Rakhine Buddhists in Myanmar's poorest state.
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But Human Rights Watch, in a report based on interviews with aid workers and experts, said that U.N. and other aid agencies had been forced into complicity in selective distributions in order to access some areas.
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Some survivors have taken refuge at churches and centers offering temporary shelter as they deal with the trauma of their losses while private citizens, international aid agencies and the government rushed humanitarian aid to affected areas.
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Bangladesh faces a challenge in managing refugee camps in its southern district of Cox's Bazar, flooded by more than 700,000 people who fled violence in Rakhine State since late August, the United Nations and aid agencies say.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Conditions for refugees in Greece are worsening and arrival numbers rising but the safeguards needed to start returning some of them to Turkey next week are not yet in place, aid agencies said on Friday.
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The International Medical Corps, which has been assisting Libyans who have fled Sirte, said once Islamic State was ousted from the city, government and aid agencies would face a huge challenge rebuilding infrastructure and re-establishing services.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A surge in violence in northern Mali and a spike in attacks on aid workers are hindering the delivery of food, water and healthcare to millions of people, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
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Yet his defeat and the promises of president-elect Barrow to revive the economy, end rights abuses, and establish democracy represent a watershed moment for Gambia and its development, according to academics, aid agencies and diplomatic sources.
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"We are in continuous discussion with international aid agencies regarding this issue, and we continue to emphasize Jordan's legitimate security concerns, and the best way that aid can be delivered," said Mohammed al-Momani, Jordan's government spokesman.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 300,000 people have fled inter-ethnic violence in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since early June, complicating the tracing and treatment of patients at risk from Ebola, U.N. aid agencies said on Tuesday.
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DAKAR, Feb 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More babies are dying each year in West and Central Africa even as child health improves overall, aid agencies said on Tuesday, calling the region's newborn death rate a "hidden tragedy".
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International aid agencies and the United Nations have warned the assault could shut down the vital aid route for some 70 percent of Yemen&aposs food, as well as the bulk of humanitarian aid and fuel supplies.
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The pace of displacement has accelerated in recent days as fighting approaches the most densely populated parts of western Mosul, and aid agencies have expressed concern that camps to accommodate people fleeing the city are almost full.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A spate of attacks by Boko Haram in southeastern Niger in recent months is hindering the delivery of aid to more than 0003,000 people forced from their homes, aid agencies said on Thursday.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The destruction of crops by a powerful typhoon will push people in the Philippines deeper into poverty and prolong recovery efforts, aid agencies said as they called for more assistance for farmers.
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LONDON, Jan 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies should stop shipping in mass-produced, pre-fabricated shelters after disasters and help people rebuild their villages with local materials like mud and bamboo, a leading Pakistani architect says.
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Bangladesh's Humanitarian Coordination Task Team - made up of government and U.N. experts, aid agencies and donors - estimates that some 8.373 million people in 28.37 districts have been affected by the recent floods which began in mid-July.
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Last week aid agencies warned of a looming humanitarian crisis after heavy shelling between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists cut off power and water supplies to tens of thousands on both sides of the front line.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Somali government responded to widespread criticism by aid agencies on Wednesday, promising to investigate reports that thousands of families fleeing drought and conflict were forcefully evicted from more than 20 informal camps.
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As many as 14 million Yemenis are suffering severe food shortages, aid agencies say, while an estimated 85,000 children under the age of 5 may have already died of starvation or disease, according to Save the Children.
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Though there are many nonprofits and aid agencies working in Bethlehem, Khoury's effort is different, observers said, because of its breadth, Khoury's business acumen, the money behind it and the expertise CCC is putting to the task.
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Longstanding antipathy among ethnic Rakhine Buddhists - who say the UN and nongovernment bodies favor the Rohingya with aid deliveries – spiked in August, with protesters demanding that aid agencies leave and the U.N. warning staff against rising hostility.
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"We are talking about people who truly are marching toward starvation if we are not here to help them," Beasley told diplomats, aid agencies and government officials at the launch of Zimbabwe's humanitarian appeal to international donors.
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Yemen's government said the move was designed to "cut off Iran's hand" that had been supplying weapons to Houthi rebels, but aid agencies warned the attack threatens the lives of up to quarter of a million citizens.
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More than a million are living in Colombia, where the government and aid agencies have scrambled to provide housing, food and healthcare to an ever-growing influx of migrants arriving in already-poor and violent border regions.
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Those who cannot flee are trapped and hungry in northern Rakhine, according to anecdotal evidence collected by international aid agencies, which the government has largely prevented from delivering relief supplies or even assessing need in the region.
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Though the decision was reversed within days, in October 20073, Pakistan announced a new policy for international aid agencies, canceling all previous no-objection certificates and ordering organizations to register again with the government within 60 days.
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During earlier outbreaks, various news organizations, including The Guardian and The Washington Post, reported that unnamed Ethiopian officials were pressuring aid agencies to avoid using the word "cholera" and not to report the number of people affected.
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This influx has strained aid agencies and communities across eastern Cameroon, where more than 220,22013 child refugees are out of school, and prey to violence, sexual abuse and early marriage, according to the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF).
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Dwindling humanitarian funding for Cameroon, and the prospect of huge waves of arrivals if Central African Republic plunges back into full-blown conflict, are stoking fears among aid agencies for the future of the country's young refugees.
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The Iraqi military believes several thousand militants, including many foreigners, are hunkered down in Mosul among the remaining civilian population, which aid agencies estimated to number 750,000 at the start of the latest phase of the battle.
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UNITED NATIONS — A month ago, the secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, warned that 20 million people would fall into famine if his aid agencies could not corral $4.4 billion by the end of March.
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Death and infection rates in Samoa started to slow in mid-December after a vaccine drive pushed immunization rates towards 95%, the level aid agencies say is effective in creating "herd immunity" that can contain the disease.
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There were more aid agencies, more services, and better facilities across the maritime border than there were in Congo, but the privation was still profound and the stories of survivors echoed what I'd heard across the lake.
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The Saudi government has sent letters to the United Nations and to aid agencies operating in Yemen, stating that they should leave areas under Houthi control in order to be safe from bombing, VICE News can reveal.
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The report, published today by the human rights organisation, also claims that "governments and aid agencies are failing to provide even basic protections to women refugees traveling from Syria and Iraq" in order to keep them safe.
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The Iraqi military believes several thousand militants, including many who traveled from Western countries, are hunkered down in Mosul among the remaining civilian population, which aid agencies estimated to number 750,000 at the start of the latest offensive.
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The Nigerian Senate last week launched an investigation into allegations of food aid being stolen and sold by state officials in Borno state, where aid agencies have warned of starvation, malnutrition and dwindling food supplies for the displaced.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in camps in Bangladesh began a protest on Monday, demanding that Bangladesh recognize their ethnicity as Rohingya and that officials and aid agencies stop sharing their family information with Myanmar.
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The drought in Ethiopia has left 10.2 million people in need of food aid and aid agencies say that figure could rise to more than 15 million by August out of the country's total population of 90 million.
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Before ISIS unleashed its carnage last week, Jordan had let aid agencies truck water, food and medical aid to the asylum seekers and had slowly admitted some of them into a closed camp for security and refugee screening.
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Comparing the impact of last year's Hurricane Matthew on Haiti where up to 1,000 were killed while mass evacuations in Cuba avoided deaths, Cotte said greater cooperation between governments, business and aid agencies in the region was key.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health workers are rushing to the site of a fresh Ebola outbreak in Guinea to bolster efforts to contain the virus and prepare for the likelihood of more cases, aid agencies said on Friday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of people are suffering from an outbreak of diarrhea, malaria and dengue in Bangladesh and Nepal as the waters from the worst floods in a decade recede, officials and aid agencies said on Wednesday.
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"The Somali health system is at the moment in a state of crisis," said Abdurahman Sharif, director of the Somalia NGO Consortium, a group of local and international aid agencies including Save the Children and Norwegian Refugee Council.
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The Jordanian government responded to the attack last week by sealing its borders with Syria, and aid agencies said that 60,000 refugees living in makeshift camps on the border had received little or no food and water since.
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces quickly entered central areas of Falluja on Friday after weeks of battling the Islamic State, fighting that had forced thousands of civilians to flee and overwhelmed the ability of aid agencies to care for them.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A record 5,000 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this year, following two shipwrecks on Thursday in which some 100 people, mainly West Africans, were feared dead, aid agencies said on Friday.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With millions of Bangladeshis hit by devastating monsoon floods in the past month, the government and aid agencies are helping them with emergency food and shelter, while working to improve protection against future disasters.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of volunteers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have set out on foot and motorbike to teach Ebola safety in a drive aid agencies say could be key to containing a deadly outbreak.
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Under nutrition among children costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year - 6.4 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) - according to a study led by the African Union and backed by U.N. aid agencies and the African Development Bank.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The evacuation of wounded and civilians from eastern enclaves of Aleppo was aborted on Friday and aid agencies and vehicles were told to leave the area without explanation, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Two aid agencies said on Wednesday they were following the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and aid organization Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a major contributor to the relief effort, which both announced on Tuesday they would cut back assistance.
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Yemen has been locked in civil war for the past three years, with aid agencies warning earlier this year that the country is in danger of tipping into famine if fighting continues to disrupt imports of food aid.
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Idcol is a profitable private company, but its renewable energy division has received support from the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, Global Environmental Facility and the aid agencies of the United States, Germany, Britain and Japan, among others.
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International aid agencies are demanding unhindered and sustained access to be able to respond to the needs of the nearly 400,000 people in an enclave that has been largely isolated for years, and completely cut off for months.
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Dozens of people in the Bahamas took to Facebook to search for missing loved ones, and aid agencies estimated that tens of thousands of people out of the Bahamas population of 5003,000 would need food and other support.
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TUNIS, March 28 (Reuters) - Two new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in Libya, authorities said on Saturday, after the first was detected earlier this week, with international aid agencies warning of a disaster if it spreads.
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The northwest offensive, in which non-governmental organizations and rights groups have accused the Russian-led alliance of using "scorched earth" bombing tactics, has prompted warnings by the United Nations and aid agencies of a new humanitarian crisis.
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His adviser, Lawrence O. Gostin, the director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, called attention to Ethiopia's long history of denying cholera outbreaks even as aid agencies scramble to contain them.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 15,000 Syrian children will be at risk of homelessness if the Lebanese government goes ahead with the planned demolition of "semi-permanent structures" built by refugees in eastern Lebanon, aid agencies warned on Tuesday.
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Human rights workers and around 60 migrants, nearly half under 553, told Human Rights Watch of daily identity checks, shortened hours for aid agencies to distribute food and unsanitary conditions caused by a lack of toilets and water.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies urged the United States not to turn its back on refugees as President Donald Trump prepared to sign an executive order on Friday to temporarily halt arrivals from some Muslim-majority nations.
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The government has raised $29 million, half from private companies and foreign aid agencies, out of a target of $64.1 million needed for vaccinations, drugs, clean water and better water and sewer pipes, said Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The photograph of a drowned Syrian child lying face down on a Turkish beach has been ranked the most powerful of recent times in a survey of aid agencies by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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But escalating attacks by a local armed group will make it difficult for aid agencies to help in the remote area about 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of capital Ouagadougou, the Red Cross and the United Nations said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only five child migrants who reached Italy and Greece without their parents were transferred to Britain in 2016, aid agencies said on Thursday, warning that many others risked falling prey to traffickers and smugglers.
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Amid the politicking over coronavirus, aid agencies have warned against the stigmatization of refugees, whose harsh living conditions make them vulnerable if they become infected, but who are no more likely to be carriers than any other group.
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Britain pledged about 10 million pounds ($12 million) to fund humanitarian programs in Libya, including training coastguards to intercept migrants attempting sea crossings, working with aid agencies to improve detention centers, and providing "human rights focused training" for guards.
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The tremor, shortly after midnight local time, struck just 31 km (19 miles) southwest of the epicenter of last Monday's magnitude 7.5 quake that has left government and aid agencies scrambling to provide emergency supplies to the remote region.
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About 76,000 Nigerians who had fled fighting were living in the town and dependent on aid agencies for food and health services including nutrition therapy for starving children, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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The same month, President Bashar al Assad's regime had cut off access to the main road from Aleppo to the Turkish border, hampering movement of rebels fighting his government and aid agencies trying to bring supplies to the city.
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In Madagascar, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) and other aid agencies already are helping with food distributions, projects to help farmers cultivate what they can, and efforts to provide food in exchange for clearing land or fixing roads.
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Both the Peshmerga and Iraqi army have organized screening points to prevent ISIS members from escaping, but aid agencies say that if the outflow exceeds 150,000 people, the systems in place to process and accommodate people will be overwhelmed.
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There has been a resurgence of violence against aid agencies in recent months, with 10 attacks recorded in April and May after just three in the first three months of this year, according to data from the United Nations.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies expect reports of sexual misconduct to rise and more staff to be fired this year as they crackdown on staff offences after a sector-wide abuse scandal, an exclusive survey revealed on Thursday.
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Since then, one delivery of food aid has been made to the camp's tens of thousands of residents, with aid agencies, banned from entering the no's man land, required to drop supplies into the camp using cranes, Amnesty said.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies have hailed the passage of a U.S. bill that aims to eliminate hunger and poverty around the world by helping smallholder farmers, especially women, with investments targeted at increasing productivity and improving nutrition.
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A U.N.-led group of aid agencies involved in protection of civilians in Libya put the number of people still displaced from Benghazi inside Libya at 27,000 but Orafi said others had gone abroad like Sagizly, many to Turkey.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese military units demolished at least 20 refugee homes early on Monday, a group of international aid agencies said, warning that they feared more demolitions would follow and that thousands of people including children could be affected.
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Access to Rakhine is heavily restricted, which prevents accurate reports on the situation, so the U.N. and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have urged the Myanmar government to allow aid agencies and independent journalists to enter and investigate rights violations.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - As forces of the Saudi-led military coalition close in on the main Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, aid agencies fear a major battle that will also shut down a vital lifeline for millions of hungry civilians.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - An eight-year-old girl was killed on Friday in a landslide at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, the first of what aid agencies expect will be hundreds of casualties during the monsoon season.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labor and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe.
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The Iraqi military believes several thousand militants, including many who traveled from Western countries, are hunkered down among the remaining civilian population, which aid agencies estimated to number 750,000 in western Mosul at the start of the latest offensive.
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The Nobel Peace Prize laureate established the body amid growing international pressure to investigate allegations that Myanmar soldiers had killed and raped civilians and burned down their homes, as well as to allow aid agencies to reach the area.
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Aid agencies now face a double challenge: to think beyond traditional aid and find ways to help host communities cope with the ongoing pressure on their resources; and to assist the displaced planning to rebuild their lives back home.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ebola's spread to a new part of Democratic Republic of Congo is a disturbing sign that health workers are failing to keep track of high-risk people on the move, aid agencies said on Friday.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Haitian authorities and aid agencies were scrambling on Wednesday to prepare for Hurricane Irma, the strongest Atlantic storm on record, warning it could devastate the country still reeling from drought and last year's Hurricane Matthew.
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Many of the girls were forced into early marriages or transactional sex, and over a tenth had been pregnant, according to the results, released as aid agencies, governments and donors met in Berlin on Monday to discuss the conflict.
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Aid agencies have boosted security in recent years, but it eats into resources that could be spent on assistance, and armed escorts and fortified offices create a distance between aid workers and the people they are trying to help.
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"Dozens of civilians, mostly children, were killed or injured in an airstrike on Thursday by U.S. allies on a bus in a crowded market in northern Yemen, according to health officials and international aid agencies," The Washington Post reports.
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