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We, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, would like to extend our gratitude to the Office of the United…

New Zealand has approved $5.2 million in humanitarian funding to address significant humanitarian needs in South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The ongoing conflict in South Sudan, and prolonged drought, recent heavy rains and pockets of violence in…

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has announced that New Zealand will provide $3 million to support emergency famine relief and prevention efforts in Africa and Yemen. “More than 20 million people are currently facing famine conditions or severe…

Effective and cooperative action to secure long-term food security and improved nutrition in developing countries is a priority shared by all Commonwealth countries, as reflected in the Perth Declaration on Food Security Principles. The humanitarian crisis…

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has announced New Zealand will donate NZ$3 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in response to an urgent international request for increased humanitarian assistance in Africa. “The United Nations…

Foreign Minister Murray McCully has today announced New Zealand will provide a total of NZ$2 million in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa due to severe drought. “Up to 10 million people…

Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister Helen Clark today announced that $1.5 million has been allocated to international organisations responding to natural disasters through NZAID (New Zealand's international aid and development agency). "As a concerned member of the international community it…

The food supply situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated sharply in recent years. It has been estimated that 3.8 million people in Zimbabwe presently need food assistance, with this number expected to rise to 5.1 million by January. "Zimbabwe has limited…

Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that New Zealand's commitment to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNMIS) is to be extended for one further year, to 1 October 2009. "The UN Mission in Sudan is a major peacekeeping…

New Zealand is to contribute to the international response to severe flooding and landslides in eastern Uganda, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced today. "Many thousands of people in eastern Uganda have been affected by severe flooding and landslides after months of…