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UN says 14 million in Africa's Horn need food aid
Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day - pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.  Haiti food aid lags, hunger deepensEvery inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying for so long in the hospital malnutrition ward that his mother no longer tried to console him.
EU proposes $1.6B food crisis fund
The European Union on Friday proposed a $1.6 billion two-year emergency fund to help poor countries cope with the global food crisis.
UN to end Myanmar aid flights on Aug. 10
A United Nations decision to end aid flights to Myanmar next month could hurt relief efforts already struggling to reach millions of survivors with adequate food and water, humanitarian groups said Friday.
Somalia: 5th World Food Program worker slain
A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency's workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults.
Food aid to Bangladesh after rat plague
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh's southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations' food agency said Sunday.
3 Somali aid workers shot in 24 hours
Gunmen shot and killed two Somali aid workers and wounded a third within 24 hours, witnesses said Saturday, in the latest sign of spiraling violence against workers struggling to deal with the war-ravaged country's humanitarian crisis.  7 peacekeepers killed in ambush in DarfurIn a brazen attack on horseback and from SUVs mounted with anti-aircraft weapons, some 200 gumen ambushed peacekeepers from a joint U.N.-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, killing seven in fierce battles that lasted more than two hours, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
Somalia: UN agency driver killed
The U.N. food agency says Somali gunmen have shot and killed one of its drivers in southern Somalia. |
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