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Paris, le 5 août 2005 - Le Secours Catholique-Caritas France vient de porter à 321 000 € le montant des fonds destinés à lutter contre la crise alimentaire dans la zone sahélienne. 50 000 € supplémentaires pour soutenir les…
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[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] DAKAR, 5 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - After the news cameras are switched off and the world's journalists leave Niger, what is almost certain is that next season the…
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[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] SAKABAL, 5 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - Tuareg nomad Amadou Ibrahim stands amid the orange dust, his white robes streaming out behind him, and kicks himself for not having…
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NEW YORK/NAIROBI - Lack of significant rainfall in the 2004 planting season coupled with a massive infestation of desert locusts has created conditions of acute malnutrition for approximately 3.5 million people, a third of them children, in vast parts…
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Tuesday 2 August Once the distribution was up and running yesterday, it was back on the road south to Maradi, another of our main feeding centres. I drove down with Dr Guy Zimmerman, a Red Cross doctor from Geneva…
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NIAMEY, Aug 5 - The first three of nine Red Cross flights carrying urgently needed food aid and equipment began arriving in Niger on Friday. An IL-76 carrying 41 metric tonnes of Unimix (an enriched flour) and oil supplied by…
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What the Agencies are doing: NIGER Food distribution The immediate focus of the DEC member agencies is on supplying food to keep as many people alive as possible. - Three British Red Cross flights have arrived, carrying food for 23,000 malnourished children…
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In only 72 hours the DEC has received over £8 million via phones and online from generous donors throughout the UK for the Niger Crisis Appeal. More funding is urgently needed to ensure charities can expand their emergency work in…
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Episcopal Relief and Development is partnering with Lutheran World Relief, through Action by Churches Together International, to provide both short and long-term assistance to help alleviate the food emergency in Niger. A severe food security crisis in some pastoral…
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Vatican City, 5 August 2005 - Fr Pierre Cibambo, the Africa desk officer at the Caritas Internationalis General Secretariat in the Vatican, reports on an increasing humanitarian disaster in Niger where he arrived Wednesday. He says: "Caritas Niger has been…
