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First WFP aid ship in four months docks in Yemen as needs soar
Source: World Food Programme
Country: Yemen
The MV Han Zhi, with 3,000 metric tons of food – enough to feed 180,000 people for one month – docked at Aden. It will provide much-needed assistance for contested southern…
Latest Global Emergency Overview highlights humanitarian crises in Iraq, Yemen and Ukraine
Source: Assessment Capacities Project
Country: Afghanistan, Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea,…
Child malnutrition levels soar in Tanzanian refugee camp as Burundi election nears
RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: Save the Children
Country: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania
An estimated 25,000 people have fled to the Tanzanian border camp in the last month, bringing the total number of…
Lack of funds closes 28 per cent of WASH programmes
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Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Iraq
Additional 12 per cent to close within two weeks. Provision of an effective WASH response across the country remains severely…
UNICEF's U-Report social platform hits 1 million active users
RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: UN Children's Fund
Country: World
Young people mostly in Africa are using U-Report every day to voice their opinions, connect to their leaders, and help change the conditions in their communities.NEW YORK, 16…
Five ways aid agencies can better communicate with those they help
RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: IRIN
Country: World
By Jessica Alexander
GENEVA, 20 July 2015 (IRIN) - International aid agencies have historically been criticized for failing to seek the views of those they are trying to help, providing them…
More people flee to Mauritania to escape insecurity in northern Mali
RELIEFWEB.INT - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Mali, Mauritania
MBERA CAMP, Mauritania, July 20 (UNHCR) – Almost 400 people fleeing a renewed outbreak of fighting in northern Mali have sought refuge in Mauritania over…
Food distribution by ICRC in Somalia
The ICRC in Somalia marked this year's Ramadan by distributing food and volumes of the Quran to detention centres in Somalia. Among the food items distributed were palm dates, meat, sugar, tea leaves and milk.
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Towards a better understanding of food security, gender equality and peace-building
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization
Country: World
IDS and FAO want to understand how addressing the specific priorities of men and women in food and nutrition interventions could shape conflict mitigation and…
Falck supports and sponsors the EMS 2016 Congress in Copenhagen
Falck will be a main sponsor for the first European congress on emergency medical services, EMS 2016 in Copenhagen
For the very first time EMS Copenhagen, part of the Capital Region of Denmark, will host an international congress on…