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Aid Parcels Flown From UK To Famine Victims In East Africa

Press Association | Press Association | Posted 02.10.2011 | UK
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PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Aid parcels aimed at saving the lives of thousands of malnourished children in Africa have been flown out of Britain as the Unite...

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Unicef Reports Sharp Rise In Number Of Starving Somalis

The Huffington Post | Chris Wimpress | Posted 17.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Video, Dec, Famine, East Africa, Somalia, Unicef, Un, UK News

The United Nations has begun airlifting food supplies into the rebel-held areas of Somalia, amid reports that half a million children in East Africa h...

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Kenya: The International Community Must Work Together to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe

Andrew Mitchell | Posted 15.09.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: Drought, Foreign Aid, UK World, Kenya, UK Politics, Dec, Foreign Affairs, Africa, Andrew Mitchell, UK Politics News
Andrew Mitchell

My visit to the Dadaab refugee camp and a hospital for malnourished children in Wajir, Northern Kenya, today was both enormously upsetting and powerfully motivating. The women I met at Dadaab, their feet bloodied by weeks of walking to reach this refuge, told me harrowing stories of their journeys. Some had been robbed, others encountered violence. Some had even lost their children to hunger on the way. The international community - countries, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations - must now work together to prevent what is already a terrible crisis becoming a humanitarian catastrophe which engulfs this whole region of Africa.

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Aid Agencies Justify Drought Appeal

Posted 08.09.2011 | UK
Read More: Age UK, Dec, Charities, British Red Cross, Drought, East Africa, Oxfam, Save the Children, Somilia, UK News

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Aid agencies have spelled out why they believe the crisis in East Africa would become catastrophic without a big push in internat...

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