As African Locust Crisis Worsens, UN Faces Huge Funds Shortfall to ...
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With the desert locust crisis in West Africa expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks, the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that it only had in hand less than a tenth of the crucial funding needed to prevent the
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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The UN Population Fund Wednesday reported a funding squeeze has undermined efforts to provide family planning services, reduce maternal deaths, prevent HIV/AIDS, and meet the needs of young people.
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afrol News, 17 September - The desert locust crisis in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Niger is &quot;expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks,&quot; and there was a serious risk that the Maghreb countries would be reinvaded by swarms from October onwards, FAO
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do well to turn to a UN site that counsels if you can&#39;t beat them eat them. swarms that have landed in Cyprus from Africa. &quot;Here are a few local recipes from locust-affected countries,&quot; a page on the FAO Web site says.
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United Nations -- The UN Security Council November 30 asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to create a trust fund to accept donations to support a UN protection force in Iraq.
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An agricultural region in eastern Mauritania faces the loss of its entire crop to swarms of locusts unless action is taken immediately, a regional government official has warned.
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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 United Nations is flying six more aircraft to combat swarms of crop-devouring locusts in west Africa.
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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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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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With Africa lagging behind in  global development goals and rich countries cutting aid,  leaders of multilateral financial institutions decided on  Friday it was time to mobilize resources to reduce extreme  poverty on the continent.
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The UN Security Council is to meet behind closed doors today on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africaâs devastating six nation war in Congo, Africaâs third-largest nation.
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The United Nations has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike, a U.N. spokesperson said Friday.
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As Kofi Annan tries to mediate a settlement between the factions, a political assassination and tribal violence exacerbate the crisis
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An organization fighting tuberculosis worldwide said on Tuesday it has a 60 percent funding shortfall for this year and appealed to the United States and other countries to help.
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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.