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| UpdatedNot since 2011, when Somalia was in the midst of a severe drought, has a country been in famine — but the situation confronting South Sudan today is far worse.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, famine, relief-and-aid-organisations, south-sudan
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| UpdatedOne year after Tropical Cyclone Winston struck Fiji, the number of people still living in temporary accommodation, including tents, is frustrating the country's Red Cross organisation.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, cyclones, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedOne year on from Cyclone Winston and relief work is still ongoing.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, cyclones, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedThe Kingdom of Tonga is joining several other developing countries in getting a formal postal system for the first time.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, tonga, pacific, united-kingdom
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Kenya declares the ongoing drought affecting many parts of the country a national disaster, calling for aid to contain the situation which is posing a major risk to people, livestock and wildlife.
Topics: drought, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, kenya
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The Red Cross provides assistance to hundreds of families displaced by tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea's volatile highlands region.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, territorial-disputes, indigenous-other-peoples, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedHundreds of families displaced by tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea's volatile highlands region have been given help to rebuild their shattered lives.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, domestic-violence, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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The International Committee of the Red Cross suspends humanitarian work in Afghanistan after six of its staff are killed in a suspected Islamic State ambush.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, disasters-and-accidents, terrorism, relief-and-aid-organisations, afghanistan
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to World Vision chief advocate Tim Costello, who is in South Sudan to assess the humanitarian needs of people fleeing the war.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, relief-and-aid-organisations, south-sudan
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| UpdatedAid agencies urge the US not to turn its back on refugees as President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order to temporarily halt arrivals from some Muslim-majority nations.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, relief-and-aid-organisations, united-states
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Ethiopia is hosting around 4,000 guests for the 28th African Union Summit — among them is Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, ethiopia
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| UpdatedThe UN humanitarian chief accuses the Syrian Government of blocking aid to hundreds of thousands of the country's most needy people, despite a nationwide ceasefire that has given "a glimmer of hope" that the conflict might be coming to an end.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, refugees, syrian-arab-republic
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Unsolicited donations given to Australia's Pacific neighbours after disasters may cause more harm than good, a report commissioned by the Australian Red Cross says, with the cost of storing such items often a burden for local governments.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, australia, pacific
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The urge to run is an instinctive reaction in an earthquake, but Cairns-based Nepalese expatriate Som Tamang has taken that one step further by creating a charity event to raise money for victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, relief-and-aid-organisations, community-and-society, charities, charities-and-community-organisations, cairns-4870, qld, nepal
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| UpdatedAustralia's foreign aid program is under scrutiny after an audit found publicly available information on aid projects dropped 25 per cent since 2013.
Topics: foreign-affairs, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, australia
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The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the UN human rights office says.
Topics: human, relief-and-aid-organisations, intergovernmental-organisations, burma, asia
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| UpdatedA tropical disturbance heading towards Fiji is likely to turn into a category 1 cyclone in the next 24 hours, bringing heavy rains and winds over the weekend.
Topics: cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedNearly a week after magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off Solomon Islands, remote areas in the affected provinces of Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira and Ulawa are only just being reached by relief workers.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedHumanitarian aid has arrived in the Solomon Islands province worst affected by Friday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake, and a series of strong aftershocks.
Topics: earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedA ship carrying relief supplies to the Solomon Islands has arrived in Makira province, the region that was worst hit by Friday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake.
Topics: earthquake, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedThe Syrian regime and the Russian Government ignore calls for urgent humanitarian evacuations from Aleppo, as terrified civilians trapped inside the city send out desperate calls for help.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, syrian-arab-republic
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The United Nations has warned that more than five million people in Nigeria face starvation if more aid does not arrive in states severely affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, nigeria
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Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, relief-and-aid-organisations, health, treaties-and-alliances, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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A community linen drive provides more than 18 cubic metres of linen to villagers in some of PNG's most remote areas.
Topics: charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, relief-and-aid-organisations, womens-health, treaties-and-alliances, cairns-4870, papua-new-guinea
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The United Nations believes as many as 75,000 people could die in north-eastern Nigeria in the next 12 months unless there is a renewed contribution from the international community.
Topics: famine, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, nigeria