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Africa
6/15/2021 4:11:24 PM
In parts of Ethiopia's northernmost Tigray region inaccessible to humanitarian workers, the 33000 children without aid will die, these children are among more than 2.2 million in northern Ethiopia who are acutely food insecure
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Africa
6/15/2021 1:17:28 PM
Opposition parties in other pivotal regions are boycotting the election, the sixth since the end of military rule in Ethiopia 30 years ago
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Africa
6/13/2021 1:23:15 PM
Francis said he was thinking of the people of Tigray who have been 'struck by a grave humanitarian crisis that has exposed the poorest to famine. Today there is famine! There is hunger!'
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World
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Africa
6/12/2021 10:42:40 AM
More than 350,000 of Tigray's nearly 6 million people are living in famine conditions, according to an analysis by UN agencies and global aid groups
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World
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Africa
6/11/2021 2:33:15 PM
'Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are at high risk of death,' UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva
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Africa
6/10/2021 5:46:01 PM
'We are witnessing a humanitarian nightmare ... We cannot let Ethiopia starve. We have to act now,' US ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, labelling the emergency "man-made'
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Africa
6/10/2021 10:05:51 AM
Lowcock has said the war destroyed the economy along with businesses, crops and farms, and there are no banking or telecommunications services in Tigray
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Africa
6/5/2021 11:20:13 AM
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday that famine is imminent in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region and the country's north and there is a risk that hundreds of thousands of people or more will die
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World
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Africa
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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Africa
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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Africa
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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Region
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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Region
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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International
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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World
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Region
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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World
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Region
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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Region
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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Region
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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World
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Africa
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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World
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Region
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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