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Coronavirus: Five of the countries most at risk from famine in 2020
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22.4.2020 |
BBC: World |
| As the World Food Programme warns of the worst crisis since WWII, which countries are most vulnerable? |
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[newstrust :: Refugees]
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Will genocide charge against Sudan's Bashir stick?
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14.2.2020 |
BBC: World |
| A lot of work is needed before Sudan's ex-dictator faces an international court, argues Alex de Waal. |
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Africa's year in pictures 2019
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31.12.2019 |
BBC: World |
| A selection of the best photos from across Africa this year. |
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Medicaid Tweak Might Offer Means to Improve US Reproductive Health
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18.11.2019 |
Truthout.com |
 The U.S. is one of only three countries where deaths related to pregnancy and birth are on the rise. |
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
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Medical Professionals Must Be Advocates for Migrant Patients
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10.11.2019 |
Truthout.com |
| We honor the Hippocratic Oath when we work to ensure that U.S. policies don't add to migrants' ... |
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
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Sudan crisis: The ruthless mercenaries who run the country for gold
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20.7.2019 |
BBC: Front Page |
| Accused of widespread abuses, the Rapid Support Forces sprang from "Janjaweed" militias linked to genocide in Darfur. |
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How the Upheaval in Khartoum Affects One of Sudan’s Longest-Running Crises
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17.6.2019 |
Truthout.com |
| Civilians’ futures are dependent on what transpires in Khartoum. |
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
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Trump-Supported Autocrats Meet Popular Grassroots Resistance
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2.5.2019 |
Truthout.com |
| Eight years after the Arab Spring, there has been a new set of popular uprisings in northern Africa.
The post Trump-Supported Autocrats Meet Popular Grassroots Resistance appeared first on Truthout. |
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[newstrust :: Intifada]
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[newstrust :: Sanctions]
[newstrust :: Chinese]
[newstrust :: China and oil]
[newstrust :: UN]
[newstrust :: Israeli Politics]
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A little optimism, a lot of pessimism: The 2019 outlook for humanitarian crises
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24.1.2019 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Law & Justice |
An annual report from the U.N. humanitarian agency looks at the challenges ahead. |
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[flenvcenter :: Access]
[flenvcenter :: Social Justice]
[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
[newstrust :: Refugees]
[newstrust :: UN]
[newstrust :: Civil Society]
[irge304 :: Tsunami]
[newstrust :: Third World Poverty]
[newstrust :: Health]
[flenvcenter :: Wells]
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Sudan's military stands by president as violent street protests seeking his resignation continue
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24.12.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| Sudan's military on Sunday pledged to stand by President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, according to a tweet by the country's state news agency, during ongoing street protests decrying worsening economic conditions and demanding that the autocratic leader step down. "The armed forces assert that it...  |
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[flenvcenter :: Unions]
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Central African Republic: 'Why a grenade couldn't stop our music'
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18.10.2018 |
BBC: World |
| A deadly attack at a gig nine months ago has only made this band from the Central African Republic more determined. |
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[newstrust :: Peacekeeping]
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[newstrust :: UN]
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Trump is reassessing aid to South Sudan. Observers say cuts would be a disaster.
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11.5.2018 |
Washington Post: World |
| its government has been accused of blocking critical humanitarian aid and prolonging endemic violence in the country. |
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
[newstrust :: Refugees]
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Doctor saves lives in region under siege in documentary 'The Heart of Nuba'
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20.4.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| The title of the gripping, inspiring documentary “The Heart of Nuba” describes Catholic missionary Tom Catena, an American doctor running the Mother of Mercy Hospital in southern Sudan’s remote Nuba Mountains. Since 2011, the oil-rich, rebel-held region has been targeted for aerial bombings by...  |
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The collapse of the U.S.-led world order has done more harm than we realize
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16.4.2018 |
Washington Post: Op-Eds |
| In multiple miserable corners of the world, where U.S. envoys and aid would normally be, there is a void. |
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[newstrust :: Refugees]
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[newstrust :: Chinese]
[newstrust :: UN]
[flenvcenter :: Refugees]
[norgay :: Refugees]
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Caught in Congo’s tides of war: 40,000 have crossed a lake seeking refuge
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7.4.2018 |
Washington Post |
| Nearly 400,000 people have been displaced by renewed violence, according to the United Nations. More than 40,000 have crossed Lake Albert in rickety boats to Uganda, where they have been resettled in an ever-expanding refugee camp. |
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[flenvcenter :: Access]
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[newstrust :: Refugees]
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[newstrust :: Pro-Govt Militia]
[newstrust :: UN]
[flenvcenter :: Homelessness]
[flenvcenter :: Refugees]
[flenvcenter :: Warfare]
[flenvcenter :: Non-Motorized Recreation]
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Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land
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1.4.2018 |
Hindu: International |
| U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Federica Mogherini, the European Union's foreign policy chief, and other leaders have called for an independent investigation into the bloodshed. |
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[caste :: Dalits]
[iihs_blore :: Urban Economic Growth and Development]
[iihs_blore :: Urban Housing and Land]
[kisansanchar :: Agriculture]
[newstrust :: Greater Middle East]
[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
[newstrust :: UN]
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[sdeepak :: Religious People]
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They aim to help people in distress, but each year scores of aid workers are killed on the job worldwide
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12.3.2018 |
LA Times: Commentary |
| The recent killings of three humanitarian aid workers in Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants have sent shock waves throughout the humanitarian aid community and illuminated the increasingly precarious landscape such personnel must navigate to help people in areas of conflict and instability. ... |
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[newstrust :: International Islamic Terrorism]
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
[newstrust :: Refugees]
[newstrust :: UN]
[newstrust :: Civil Society]
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Tillerson cancels day's events in Africa due to illness
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10.3.2018 |
AP Politics |
| NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has canceled a day of events in Kenya due to illness.... |
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Famine again a threat in South Sudan, new report says
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26.2.2018 |
Hindu: International |
| A new report by the United Nations and South Sudan’s government says more than six million people are at threat without aid, up about 40 % from a year ago. |
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[newstrust :: Darfur Crisis]
[newstrust :: UN]
[indiatogether :: Internal conflicts]
[indiatogether :: Hunger]
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US after supporting South Sudan’s leader calls him ‘unfit’
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25.1.2018 |
Washington Post: World |
| U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says Washington is giving up on South Sudan President Salva Kiir after investing over $11 billion since the country’s independence in 2011, calling him “an unfit partner” in the pursuit of peace and urging an arms embargo on the conflict-wracked nation. |
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