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4/29/2021 8:38:21 PM
One of the two refugee camps in northern Kenya, Dadaab, close to the sensitive border with war-racked Somalia, was set up in 1991. In 2011, amid famine and chaos in Somalia, it was the world's largest camp
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4/8/2021 11:16:15 PM
The funding brought the total US contribution for Tigray to $305 million and that the contributions, along with a US team on the ground, would support food, water, shelter and medical care to more than three million people
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3/23/2021 6:09:32 PM
'Famine, driven by conflict, and fuelled by climate shocks and the COVID-19 hunger pandemic, is knocking on the door for millions of families,' said Beasley said
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3/17/2021 2:47:17 PM
The intensified fighting has come amid an international and regional diplomatic push to end the conflict which began with the 2014 takeover of the capital Sanaa by the Iranian-backed Houthis
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3/13/2021 9:40:26 AM
‘Tragically, and somewhat confusingly for me, it appears that the Houthis are prioritizing a military campaign’ to seize central Marib province, US envoy Tim Lenderking said
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3/11/2021 6:18:19 PM
"Without immediate action, millions of people will reach the brink of extreme hunger and death," Guterres told the Security Council during a meeting on the links between food and security.
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3/10/2021 5:23:00 PM
A pledging conference last month raised a little more than half from the international community of what was needed to continue food aid services for the next year
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3/1/2021 8:16:55 PM
The United Nations has been seeking $3.85 billion to avert a large-scale famine in Yemen
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2/28/2021 4:47:32 PM
The response to the UN appeal is unlikely to meet expectations, given that the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating consequences hit economies around the globe
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2/27/2021 12:11:52 PM
They are among some 16 million Yemenis - more than half the population of the Arabian Peninsula country - that the UN says are going hungry. Of those, five million are on the brink of famine, UN aid chief warns
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2/16/2021 12:52:03 PM
The name alone is enough to stir biblical fears of devastation and famine -- an insect foe that breeds prolifically and eats its own weight in food every day
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2/7/2021 6:37:43 PM
The revocation will provide profound relief to millions of Yemenis who rely on humanitarian assistance and commercial imports to meet their basic survival needs.
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1/14/2021 6:38:09 PM
Stressing that the decision has companies pulling back from dealing with Yemenis, Lowcock warned that famine will not be prevented by the licenses US will introduce so humanitarian aid and imports can continue to reach Yemen.
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1/11/2021 12:56:29 PM
Yemen is mired in a disastrous humanitarian crisis, with millions of people in wide swaths of the country on the brink of famine as a result of six years of civil war
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1/1/2021 2:23:06 PM
The waters began rising in June, washing away crops, swamping roads, worsening hunger and disease in the young nation and making famine a threat
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12/14/2020 6:11:33 PM
An estimated 50,000 people will be living in famine-like conditions in the war-ravaged Arab country during 2021
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12/11/2020 4:45:06 PM
``Considering all the evidence available, famine is most likely ongoing, and we expect a high rate of death in that area,'' UN WFP Program staffer announces
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11/30/2020 4:39:47 PM
Ethiopian authorities said on Saturday that the military operation in Tigray was over, they controlled the regional capital Mekelle, and a hunt for the rebel leaders was under way
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11/14/2020 10:05:22 PM
The UN rights chief warned of possible war crimes in Tigray, while aid workers fear the region faces a major humanitarian crisis as over 20,000 Ethiopians have fled as refugees into Sudan, with numbers continuing to grow
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11/12/2020 10:45:21 PM
More than 16,000 Ethiopians had crossed into Sudan by Thursday to escape the week-old conflict in the northern region of Tigray, officials said, as the UN refugee agency warned arrivals would likely 'rise sharply'.
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