MYANMAR: Nargis recovery needs more funds
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| Fri 30 Apr, 2010. |
Two years after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta, funding remains key in sustaining ongoing recovery efforts, the UN says. Read more...
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GLOBAL: Equipping humanitarians for emergencies
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| Fri 30 Apr, 2010. |
Field officers of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) need special skills to harmonize complex relief efforts; an in-house course is designed to equip them with the expertise to ensure the most efficient delivery of services to communities in crisis. Read more...
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SOMALIA: IRIN Radio gets the thumbs up
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
A new independent audience survey commissioned by IRIN shows that 72 percent of Somali radio listeners in Somalia and the refugee camps in Kenya listen regularly, if not daily, to IRIN Radio’s Somali service. Read more...
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YEMEN: IDP food rations to be halved from May
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will cut food rations to some 250,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Yemen by 50 percent from the beginning of May. Read more...
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YEMEN: Car-jackings hamper relief work in Amran Governorate
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
Five young men block the road, their guns pointed at the approaching vehicle. The driver from NGO Islamic Relief (IR) slows down and stops by the makeshift checkpoint on Amran Road, which connects the Yemeni capital Sanaa with the northern province of Saada. The gunmen, aged 13-18 tell the IR staff to get out of the car. In the distance a World Food Programme (WFP) truck approaches. It, too, is stopped by the tribespeople. Both vehicles are seized but the personnel are released. Read more...
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SWAZILAND: Not much benefit in preferential trade agreement
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
A decade after the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), a preferential US trade agreement, became law on 18 May 2000, there are questions over the benefits, if any, derived from the initiative. Read more...
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Analysis: Beyond the crisis in Niger
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| Thu 29 Apr, 2010. |
Most NGOs and UN agencies in Niger agree that in 2010 humanitarian actors are better geared to respond to the food security crisis than they were in 2005, but some say there is a risk of repeating mistakes in information-sharing, planning appropriate responses, and raising funds more quickly. Read more...
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GLOBAL: Development aid up but "increasingly off-track"
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| Wed 28 Apr, 2010. |
Members of the Organisation for Economic Coooperation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) gave US$121.5 billion in bilateral aid in 2009, reaching a historic high, but the gap between commitments and promises made in 2005 is widening, says the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Read more...
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