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20 August 20200 329
COVID-19 Pandemic Will Double Number of People Facing Hunger, Aid Group Says
A report by U.S.-based CARE says the number of people around the globe facing severe food insecurity or a food…
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As schools worldwide struggle with reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 per…
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Recent armed violence in Jonglei State and Greater Pibor Administrative Area has forcibly uprooted thousands of people from their homes…
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20 August 20200 328
COVID-19 and conflict collide in Libya, deepening the humanitarian crisis
COVID-19 cases in Libya have risen more than 15-fold in less than two months, spiking from 571 in June to…
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20 August 20200 393
DR Congo: WHO rings alarm as Ebola cases
The Ebola virus has so far affected some 92 people in Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Equateur province, the World…
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20 August 20200 260
Ethiopia: Adapting operations during COVID-19 to meet humanitarian needs
The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been present in Ethiopia since the beginning of the 1977…
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19 August 20200 241
Turkmenistan becomes latest country to champion universal birth registration
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a new law in Turkmenistan which will help ensure that all children born in…
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19 August United Nations (UN) World Humanitarian Day. What it means is to draw attention to the activities of workers…
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19 August 20200 241
UN salutes real-life heroes doing ‘extraordinary things, in extraordinary times’
UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged everyone to applaud and support the humanitarians, health workers and first responders working selflessly amid…
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19 August 20200 361
Across the World, Humanitarian Workers Grapple With Effects of Coronavirus
As a child in Somalia, Mohamed Mohamud proudly tended to several dozen small tomato plants. He had seen his grandmother…
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