U.N. seeks $3.9 billion for 2007 humanitarian crises
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The United Nations appealed to the world's prosperous nations on Thursday for $3.9 billion in donations next year to address humanitarian emergencies touching 27 million people in 29 countries, with most of the money targeted at Africa.
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U.N. aid groups are asking for a record $450 million to staunch a deepening Palestinian humanitarian crisis, saying Wednesday that international sanctions and Israeli limits on Gaza exports have devastated the Palestinian economy.
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The U.N. Security Council called  on Wednesday for more funds for a hard-pressed African Union  peacekeeping force in Somalia and asked the U.N.  secretary-general to keep planning for a U.N. force there.
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The U.N. humanitarian chief who complained after the Dec. 26 tsunami that Western nations were often "stingy" said Tuesday the unprecedented outpouring of aid should mark the end of the world's record of giving too little, too late to help disaster victims.
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New York - About $500m has been pledged for victims of the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, including a $250m commitment from the World Bank, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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The United Nations said that it had secured concrete aid of 717 million dollars toward its emergency relief appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and urged donor countries to speed up delivery of further aid promises.
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UNITED NATIONS (CP) - Haiti and Grenada need $59 million US in humanitarian aid immediately to cope with the destruction wrought by hurricanes last month, the top UN relief official said Friday.
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The U.N. humanitarian chief said a "dramatic deterioration" of the situation in Sudan's Darfur region has left four million people in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.
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The United Nations and the Red Cross appealed for 55 million dollars in emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of Pakistani flood victims, warning that an already dire situation could worsen.
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The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees on Tuesday made its largest aid appeal ever, saying $246 million was needed next year to help Palestinians in a "deep, unprecedented crisis" because of escalating violence and economic sanctions.
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A top UN humanitarian official said that billions of dollars of damage had been caused by the Asian tsunami disaster and that it now required the biggest relief operation ever to help the victims.
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Relief agencies struggled to rush aid to more than 3 million people in Africa and Asia who lack food and medicine as the number of fatalities from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for &#36;576.1 million to help millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan to Ethiopia and Angola.
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The U.N. will launch an appeal next week to raise as much as $20 million to help about 400,000 North Koreans affected by serious floods, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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World leaders gathered here for an emergency summit with the United Nations saying aid pledges since the Asian tsunami disaster were near four billion dollars as the International Monetary Fund offered one billion dollars in aid.
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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The world's largest disaster relief agency appealed on Tuesday for nearly $300 million in funding for 2007, some 67 percent more than last year, to help countries prepare for climate change and fight AIDS.