Up to 50,000 Somalis need aid after tsunami-UN
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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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International efforts to aid desperate victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up pace, said UN officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions that the response had been slow.
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Up to 500,000 people in Kenya will need aid in the weeks ahead if the political crisis intensifies, the UN says.
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UNITED NATIONS -- In the three weeks since the Indian Ocean tsunami ripped up coastlines in Asia and Africa, the United Nations has credited more than 40 governments, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank with unprecedented pledges of assistance valued at nearly $4 billion.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A legion of ships and  planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on  Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to  mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.  U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a major logistical  operation to help a half-dozen countries shattered by Sunday's  tsunami, which by the latest count had killed 124,622.
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Floods in Mozambique have killed about 50 people and displaced tens of thousands in the southern African nation, a UN humanitarian agency said Sunday.
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Nearly 800,000 people will need some form of food assistance in Indonesia's Aceh province as it recovers from the devastating Dec. 26 tsunami, the head of the U.N.'s food aid agency in the region said Monday.
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The United Nations rushed disaster teams to Asian countries hit by tsunami wave devastation on Sunday as governments and aid groups sent money and rescuers to answer desperate pleas for help.
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Pirate attacks are increasing off the coast of East Africa, disrupting the flow of food and medicine to Somalis in desperate need of humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Relief efforts by aid agencies and US and German soldiers help Somalis made homeless after last week's tsunami.
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At least 100 Somalis are feared drowned in the massive waves produced by Sunday&#39;s undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
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Earthquake-induced tidal waves that hit Africa's eastern coast killed at least 114 Somalis and partially or fully submerged villages in north-eastern Somalia, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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The UN believes more than 150,000  died in Asia's tsunami waves after an earthquake almost a week ago.
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More than 100 Somali and Ethiopian  migrants drowned when a smugglers' boat capsized off Yemen  earlier this week and 130 more are missing after they were  forced off a second ship, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Governments and rebels in Sumatra, Sri Lanka and Somalia must keep the peace or risk a cut-off in tsunami aid, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Australia and Germany pledged more than &#36;1.4 billion in disaster assistance.
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Up to five million people have been left  without basic essentials by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking  either water or food or basic sanitation, a senior U.N.  official said on Wednesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Some 150,000 people are  now known to have been killed by Asia's tsunami, U.N. officials  said on Monday, as helicopters and elephants were used to find  and feed survivors and shift the rubble of razed towns.