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• Aid groups warn of looming Kenyan humanitarian crisis

  - 2008-01-06

  NAIROBI AFP — Aid groups on Sunday warned of a looming humanitarian emergency after post-election violence in Kenya as teams struggled to access tens of thousands of displaced civilians across the country. With widespread insecurity and supplies close to depletion, field teams said their worst fears were mainly for...

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• Saudi leads relief efforts for cyclone-hit Bangladesh

  - 2007-11-19

  RIYADH AFP — Oil-rich Saudi Arabia led relief efforts for cyclone victims in Bangladesh Monday, pledging 100 million dollars in aid as US ships powered to the disaster zone with dozens of helicopters for evacuations. Saudi King Abdullah also ordered the dispatch of food, medical and other relief assistance...

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• Over 1,000 dead or missing in Philippine mudslides

  - 2006-12-04

  LEGASPI, Philippines AFP — The Red Cross sent out an urgent plea for water, food and medicine as Philippine officials said more than 1,000 people were dead or missing after mudslides swallowed whole villages. The government's National Disaster Coordinating Centre NDCC in its evening report Monday confirmed 450 dead from...

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• 1,000 dead or missing in Philippine mudslides: officials

  - 2006-12-03

  LEGASPI, Philippines AFP — The Red Cross has sent out an urgent plea for water, food and medicine as Philippine officials said more than 1,000 people were dead or missing after mudslides swallowed whole villages. The government's National Disaster Coordinating Centre NDCC confirmed 425 dead from the mudslides around Mayon...

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• Emergency operations head to flood-hit Somalia as toll hits 73

  - 2006-11-22

  NAIROBI AFP — The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday launched emergency operations to help hundreds of thousands hit by killer floods in lawless Somalia as the death toll climbed to 73. Islamic leaders said 16 people drowned in Middle Shabelle region, where the...

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• Aid ship docks in northern Sri Lanka as five dead in clashes: military

  - 2006-08-25

  COLOMBO AFP — A food relief ship has begun unloading in northern Sri Lanka, lifting a two-week siege of the Jaffna peninsula as fresh clashes left five rebels dead, the defence ministry said. Workers began the slow task of unloading 1,500 tonnes of food for the 350,000 civilians trapped by...

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• Aid arrives in northern Sri Lanka as five die in clashes

  - 2006-08-25

  COLOMBO AFP — A food relief ship has begun unloading in northern Sri Lanka to lift a two-week siege of the Jaffna peninsula as fresh clashes left five rebels dead, the defence ministry said. Workers began the slow task of unloading 1,500 tonnes of food for the 350,000 civilians trapped...

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• Aid groups sound famine disaster warning for northern Kenya

  - 2006-01-05

  NAIROBI AFP — International aid agencies stepped up appeals for urgent intervention in drought-hit northern Kenya, warning of mass starvation and major famine in the region where dozens have already succumbed to hunger and related illness. At least three foreign relief organizations -- the International Federation of Red Cross...

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• A long road from New Orleans to Chicago for displaced Katrina victims

  - 2005-10-28

  CHICAGO AFP — The road from New Orleans to Chicago has been a long one for bartenders Webb Rhodes and Fritz Voght. Two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their city and destroyed their way of life, the longtime friends are still scrambling to find work and a place to...

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• Tsunami death toll climbs past 80,000, disease threatens to push it higher

  - 2004-12-29

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia AFP — Confirmed deaths from Asia's tsunami catastrophe pushed past 80,000, with experts predicting much worse to come as the world's biggest ever relief operation stuttered into life against enormous odds. With 80,763 dead, rotting corpses, smashed sewers, contaminated water and a lack of food and...

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