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| UpdatedForeign aid spending is at its lowest level in eight years under the Turnbull Government and charities are calling for an urgent increase amid warnings of famine across the Middle East and North Africa.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, yemen, somalia, south-sudan
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| UpdatedYemen is now classified as the world's worst humanitarian disaster and described by the UN as being "on the brink of famine" but Australia has committed no funding to help save lives there.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, famine, international-aid-and-trade, world-politics, foreign-affairs, federal-government, yemen, south-sudan, nigeria, somalia, australia
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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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| UpdatedA Melbourne mother who fled the war in South Sudan and later killed three of her seven children, and tried to kill a fourth, by driving them into a lake will likely be deported after serving her sentence, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, wyndham-vale-3024, melbourne-3000, south-sudan
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Young Sudanese men, many injured in the country's war of secession from Sudan and its current civil war, ignore the conflict to play wheelchair basketball.
Topics: sport, disabilities, unrest-conflict-and-war, south-sudan
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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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| UpdatedThe state's northern immigrants are starting the new year with plans to forge ahead and make a difference.
Topics: people, community-and-society, family, immigration, launceston-7250, nepal, afghanistan, south-sudan, university-of-tasmania-7005
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| UpdatedAs about 2,300 Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew spend the holidays serving in operations abroad, many post videos of well wishes to their loved ones at home.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, australia, afghanistan, iraq, south-sudan
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| UpdatedDesperate parents believe it is safer for their children to go to boarding schools in Kenya or Uganda than live in some Melbourne suburbs.
Topics: immigration, crime, youth, parenting, melbourne-3000, south-sudan
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Social media users condemn the actions of a customer who refused service from a Cairns cafe worker because of the colour of the worker's skin.
Topics: discrimination, social-media, hospitality, cairns-4870, south-sudan
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Topics: immigration, cairns-4870, south-sudan
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The number of refugees fleeing South Sudan's bloody conflict goes past one million, with a further 1.6 million displaced within the country, the UN says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, refugees, south-sudan
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| UpdatedA report instigated by Hollywood actor George Clooney accuses the political elite in South Sudan of profiteering while the country is divided by a civil war.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, south-sudan, australia
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The focus groups conducted with South Sudanese for the Australians Today survey revealed 75 per cent of men and 79 per cent of women reported experiencing discrimination.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, discrimination, australia, south-sudan
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| UpdatedThe Minister responsible for Multicultural Affairs Zed Seselja says he cannot understand why New Zealand migrants feel resentful towards their adopted country, and report higher levels of discrimination than other groups.
Topics: multiculturalism, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, australia, new-zealand, south-sudan, pacific
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| UpdatedToys built by South Sudanese children, some of whom cannot remember peaceful times.
Topics: south-sudan
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| UpdatedChildren made toy soldiers, tanks and helicopters out of clay.
Topics: south-sudan
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| UpdatedScarring is a way of identifying men and women from different ethnic groups.
Topics: south-sudan
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| UpdatedA South Sudanese woman with traditional tribal scarring.
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| UpdatedA girl, 16, who is unaccompanied in South Sudan.
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| UpdatedAid agencies estimate that some 13,000 children are unaccompanied, but believe it's a conservative guess.
Topics: south-sudan
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| UpdatedIt may be the world's youngest country, but South Sudan is also one of the world's most dangerous — stricken sectarian conflict that has seen summary executions of civilians and rape used as a weapon of war.
Topics: famine, unrest-conflict-and-war, children, child-health-and-behaviour, south-sudan
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Tens of thousands of people flee a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of child soldiers, UN agencies say.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, south-sudan
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| UpdatedTopics: unrest-conflict-and-war, music, south-sudan
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| UpdatedTopics: unrest-conflict-and-war, south-sudan