U.N. agency says may have to halt Gaza food handout
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A U.N. agency said on Monday it would have to suspend food distribution to 860,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as early as Wednesday unless Israel eased the border blockade it imposed on the Hamas-controlled territory.
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The UN says unrest in the Haitian capital has forced it to consider diverting food aid via the Dominican Republic.
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The United Nations hopes to resume food distribution to tens of thousands of Somalis in the country's war-shattered capital now that the government has released a top aid official, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday.
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As many as 12 United Nations agencies have expressed serious concern about a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The organisations - including the United Nations Development
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International assistance to the Palestinians will not be effective unless Israel eases travel restrictions that have stalled some aid projects and sent the costs of others soaring, Oxfam International warned on the eve of a donors' conference.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The UN World Food Program suspended food convoys to the Darfur region in western Sudan after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, UN humanitarian officials said.
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FOOD convoys to the Darfur region of Sudan were suspended after rebel forces attacked the market town of Ghubaysh and the government retaliated, reported the United Nations Office for the Co- ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire by militants, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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The World Food Program has suspended its operations in most of the Sudanese state of North Darfur and relocated its staff to the capital due to renewed clashes between rebels and government forces, the U.N. agency said Thursday.
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The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in Gaza on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to increased rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.
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KHARTOUM, Dec 29  -- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has suspended food aid to Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region following a rebel attack on a market town that triggered deadly clashes with government forces.
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Twelve United Nations agencies working in Gaza today stated that the ongoing violence on top of the sharply deteriorating humanitarian situation this year is pushing the Palestinian population into a deep crisis.
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The United Nations' food relief agency is gearing up for a "critical stage" in feeding refugees in western Sudan as more people flee ethnic violence there and the rainy season peaks, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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Aid officials warned that Gaza, gripped by fuel and electrical shortages, was a few days away from a health and food crisis.
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GAZA CITY, Feb. 15 -- The eight-month closure of the Gaza Strip has created "grim and miserable" conditions that deprive Palestinians of their basic dignity, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.
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Unrest in Haiti may force the United  Nations to divert ships carrying food for flood victims to the  Dominican Republic, where the aid can be put on trucks, a U.N.  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - A rebel threat to withdraw from  a cease-fire monitoring commission in Sudan's troubled Darfur  region would spell disaster for the faltering peace process,  the United Nations said Wednesday.