U.N.: Ethiopia Still on Brink of Disaster
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Ethiopia remains on the brink of disaster because it is failing to deal with spiraling population growth, slow economic growth and environmental degradation fueling its near perpetual crises, a United Nations report said Monday.
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Somalia's warlords are re-emerging and pose a threat to humanitarian aid deliveries to the needy, the United Nations warned Wednesday, as the government struggles to quell growing unrest.
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The Red Cross warned Friday that a massive aid effort is needed to cope with floods in 18 countries across Africa that have already affected at least 1.5 million people and killed nearly 300.
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Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region   faces a humanitarian "catastrophe" without rapid action to   improve the security situation and allow aid flow to those in   need, the head of the U.N.'s refugee agency said on Friday.
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A fishing town in northeastern Somalia was nearly demolished by a tsunami from Indonesia's devastating earthquake, and 500 families are living in unhealthy conditions while sheltering in huts built from debris, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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United Nations experts called on governments around the world to build early-warning systems that can cut death tolls from natural disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami that has killed nearly 40,000.
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Famine in Africa could worsen  unless action is taken to tackle the continent's HIV/AIDS  epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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Distracted by Kenya and Somalia, the U.N. Security Council will make only a cursory effort to heal an Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute on Friday at a vote on whether to extend a peacekeeping mission there, diplomats and analysts say.
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Eritrea has ignored a U.N.  deadline to grant peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia  access to badly needed fuel, but despite the shortfall, a U.N.  official said U.N. troops are reluctant to leave because they  fear war could erupt.
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Emergency aid to Africa has more than tripled in recent years, but more than 120 million people still live "on the edge of emergency" because of a lack of long-term solutions, CARE international said on Tuesday.
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The situation in the flood-ravaged Haitian city of Gonaives &quot;remains critical&quot;, the UN peacekeeping chief on the island has warned.
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Emergency aid to Africa has more than  tripled in recent years, but more than 120 million people still  live "on the edge of emergency" because of a lack of long-term  solutions, CARE international said on Tuesday.
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ADDIS ABABA -- More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said yesterday. Some 60,000 people have been infected, but the country's Health Ministry is resisting pressure to declare an emergency despite a United Nations warning that the disease is an epidemic. "The fact that it is spreading ...
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Flooding from 11 days of heavy rain has killed at least 626 people across Ethiopia, and authorities Wednesday braced for a rising death toll as overwhelmed rescuers struggled to locate missing villagers.
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GENEVA -- The Central African Republic is veering toward disaster, a senior United Nations official said yesterday, a day after rebels captured a northern town and said they were headed to the country's southern capital. "Central African Republic is a tragedy in the making," said Ibrahima Fall, who headed a weeklong UN mission to the country. On Monday, a man ...
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis need immediate relief aid in coastal towns hit by waves whipped up by the Asian earthquake, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis need immediate relief aid in coastal towns devastated by waves whipped up by an earthquake in Asia, the United Nations said on Wednesday.