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27 Nov 2009 14:30:00 GMT
Food crisis looms around eastern Sahel in Africa -WFP
Several million people are likely to face a serious food crisis next year in West Africa's eastern Sahel region notably in Chad and Niger , the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

Late and erratic rainfall in September and October, a period critical to crop development, has meant there will be a shortfall of food in this region that is between the Sahara desert and the forest parts of sub saharan Africa.

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26 Nov 2009 10:30:00 GMT
WFP to give out food aid to thousands fleeing ethnic conflict in Congo
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The United Nations' World Food Programme next week will start distributing food aid to more than 50,000 people driven out of their homes by ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The fighting - unrelated to simmering rebel violence in the mineral-rich east - erupted at the end of last month in the village of Dongo in Equateur province. It has forced more than 38,000 people to flee across the border into neighbouring Congo Republic and displaced 14,000 others internally, the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement.

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23 Nov 2009 15:56:00 GMT
Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on Monday they had relocated 12 expatriate aid workers following a deterioration in the security situation.

Rebel group Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu. The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout Somalia.

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18 Nov 2009 17:52:00 GMT
Victims of Senegal floods face dire conditions two months on
DAKAR (AlertNet) - Crouching on the roof of her house, 48-year-old Ossida Diatta pins up a mosquito net in a shelter made of used sheets and plastic bags. The makeshift dwelling is home to Diatta and her eight children, along with her late husband's second wife and her seven offspring.

They have been living on the roof since August when heavy rains flooded their neighbourhood in Pikine, an impoverished suburb of the Senegalese capital Dakar.

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18 Nov 2009 13:39:00 GMT
Q+A-How can we make humanitarian aid more effective?
LONDON (AlertNet) - For decades experts have been debating how humanitarian aid money donated by governments can be stretched further and provide better assistance to survivors of wars and natural disasters.

These questions are becoming increasingly important as climate change causes more frequent droughts and floods and as the global recession puts aid funding under pressure.

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