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22 Jul 2011
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Algeria
and 20 others
Achieving Regional Integration: The Key to Success for the Fight Against Hunger in West Africa

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Action Against Hunger-UK, Oakland Institute
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A New Report from Action Against Hunger and the Oakland Institute

If West African nations do not move decisively towards regional integration, no amount of money, development, or agricultural technology, will be sufficient or effective at ending hunger

29 Jun 2011
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Ethiopia
and 4 others
Tackling the High Food Price Challenge: Five recommendations from the UK Hunger Alliance to G20 members

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Action Against Hunger-UK, CARE, Concern Worldwide, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision
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G20 countries attending a key development meeting in South Africa today (Wed) must call for the urgent release of promised funds to stop more people from going hungry as food prices skyrocket once again, says the UK Hunger Alliance.

The coalition of international aid agencies says that money should be made available to countries most vulnerable to food insecurity in a new report entitled: Tackling the High Food Price Challenge.

03 Dec 2009
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Sierra Leone
Malnutrition in Sierra Leone exceeds emergency levels

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Action Against Hunger-UK
The number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the Moyamba district of Sierra Leone has reached alarming levels, says Action Against Hunger | ACF International. A recent nutritional survey carried out by Action Against Hunger revealed that 3.8% of children in Moyamba suffer from severe acute malnutrition, which is almost twice the level of the World Health Organisation's emergency threshold of 2%.

The international humanitarian organisation responded by launching an emergency response to provide treatment for over

16 Nov 2009
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Mali
Mali: The sun is getting closer to our heads

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Erratic weather patterns and drought in the region of Gao in Northern Mali have put thousands of families at risk of hunger and malnutrition. A recent survey carried out by Action Against Hunger | ACF International found that 15.9 percent of children under five suffer from acute malnutrition, a percentage that exceeds the World Health Organisation emergency threshold of 15 percent. Action Against Hunger has launched an emergency operation to assist 16,500 people at risk of malnutrition with funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
23 Oct 2009
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Burkina Faso
Action Against Hunger helps flood victims in Burkina Faso

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Two months after Burkina Faso was hit by devastating floods, the situation in Ouagadougou, the country's capital, remains precarious for the thousands of people who are sheltering in temporary sites such as schools and with host families.

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is improving sanitation and providing basic hygiene for 7,500 people affected by the flooding, with funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Action Against Hunger is focusing its efforts on people living in Bogodogo district, one of the capital's poorest

02 Oct 2009
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Indonesia
and 1 other
Action Against Hunger/ACF International responds to disasters in Southeast Asia

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Padang, Indonesia & Manila - The Philippines-Action Against Hunger | ACF International has launched an emergency response to assist the victims of two earthquakes that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra over the last 48 hours. These natural disasters come in the wake of devastating flooding in the Philippines, where Action Against Hunger teams are on the ground preparing to receive the first aerial shipment of emergency supplies.

Response to Earthquakes in Sumatra, Indonesia

Immediately after the first earthquake

30 Sep 2009
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Philippines (the)
Philippines: Action Against Hunger launches emergency response

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Action Against Hunger-UK
International humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger | ACF International is putting in motion an emergency response to help the victims of Typhoon Ketsana. Severe flooding caused by Typhoon Ketsana has forced thousands of people from their homes. The country has appealed for foreign help to deal with the disaster.

Action Against Hunger's teams on the ground have carried out an emergency assessment of the situation. "Nearly 2 million people have been affected," says Patrice Chataigner, Action Against Hunger's Head of Emergencies. "People seeking refuge in temporary

10 Sep 2009
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Inadequate hygiene conditions put thousands at risk

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Action Against Hunger-UK
International humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger / ACF International has mounted an emergency response after the heaviest rainfall in almost a century destroyed major parts of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, affecting more than 150,000 people. 50,000 people have sought refuge in dozens of temporary shelter sites throughout the capital.

On 1st September, more than 10 inches of rainfall dropped in a 12-hour period, flooding 50% of the capital and leaving tens of thousands of people homeless. The displaced have sought

21 Aug 2009
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Central African Republic (the)
CAR: Malnutrition rates way above the emergency thresholds

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Action Against Hunger-UK
A nutritional survey carried out by Action Against Hunger in July 2009 in the city of Berbérati (Mambéré-Kadeï region to the west of the capital Bangui) has revealed that 7% of the children screened were suffering from the most serious form of malnutrition: severe acute malnutrition. World Health Organisation standards define the nutritional emergency threshold at 2% severe acute malnutrition. The situation in Berbérati is therefore critical, with 1,100 children in a life-threatening condition.

An emergency team has been dispatched

12 Aug 2009
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Afghanistan
There is a dangerous instrumentalisation of aid happening in Afghanistan

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Ahead of the elections in Afghanistan, Anne Garella - Action Against Hunger's Country Director in Afghanistan - revisits the humanitarian situation in the country. NGOs are doing their best to provide aid to people affected by the combined consequences of war and drought, against a background of a growing instrumentalisation of aid by political and military actors.

A worrying humanitarian situation - the consequences of war.

"There are several factors in Afghanistan that are destabilising the population, but the resurgence of the conflict

10 Feb 2009
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Central African Republic (the)
and 3 others
Feeding hunger & insecurity: Field analysis of volatile global commodity food prices, food security, & childhood malnutrition

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Acción contra el Hambre, Action Against Hunger-UK, Action Against Hunger-USA, Action Contre la Faim
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Executive summary

Key Messages

- The crisis is not over. Even though global food prices are falling, local prices have continued to increase or have remained at their inflated level in most vulnerable countries, putting millions of people at risk.

- Despite no clear global increase in acute malnutrition, high prices consistently forced families to adopt damaging coping strategies to maintain staple food consumption; 'seasonality' shows that this can have longterm implications for poverty, vulnerability and malnutrition.

- Context matters; urgent funding is

23 Jan 2009
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World
55 million young children at risk

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Action Against Hunger-UK
If next week's Madrid Food Summit does not come up with a concrete implementation and funding plan focused on malnutrition, 55 million children under five will continue to face potential life-threatening malnutrition according to ACF International (Action Against Hunger / Action contre la Faim) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

While global prices for basic food commodities have fallen back to 2006 levels, childhood malnutrition - caused by the lack of foods rich in nutrients, vitamins, and minerals - continues to claim the lives of almost 10.000 children every day.

22 Jan 2009
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Central African Republic (the)
and 3 others
ACF's latest report calls for immediate, effective and unified response to hunger

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Action Against Hunger-UK
In view of Monday's UN food security summit in Madrid, international humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger (ACF) announces the publication of its latest report titled Feeding Hunger and Insecurity. Drawing on field research in the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the report explores the impact high, fluctuating food prices, globally and domestically, have on food security and malnutrition.

Despite no clear increase in severe malnutrition

22 Jan 2009
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Central African Republic (the)
and 3 others
Feeding hunger and insecurity: The global food price crisis - A summary of Action Against Hunger research in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic and Liberia

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Action Against Hunger-UK
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In 2007 and 2008 international food and oil prices soared causing riots in over 30 countries, threatening to undo any progress made towards Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4 - eradicating hunger and under-five child mortality. In this report, Action Against Hunger looks at the impact these global trends had on malnutrition and food security. Despite cereal prices falling on the global market, recent surveillance shows that food commodity prices have remained high or increased in 32 of the 36 vulnerable countries monitored (WFP 2008c). Action Against Hunger's
15 Jan 2009
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OPT: Action Against Hunger distributes water supplies to families in Gaza

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Action Against Hunger-UK
After 19 days of attacks and military intervention, the water and sanitation system in the Gaza Strip is on the verge of total collapse. Despite difficulties in access, humanitarian aid agency Action Against Hunger has started the distribution of drinking water via water trucks to 48,000 people in Gaza over the next eight weeks.

500,000 people without access to running water

The difficulties in access to the affected areas, lack of resources and materials for repairing the destroyed infrastructure and stagnant water standing in puddles in the streets mean that families

21 Nov 2008
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oPt: Action Against Hunger calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Action Against Hunger, together with the Association of International Development Agencies, calls on the government of Israel and the leaders and senior officials of the international community to ensure a transparent and accountable system of unimpeded humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip so that high quality, effective and sustainable essential services are delivered to the people who need them.

Vital humanitarian work of international humanitarian and development agencies in the Gaza Strip is being impeded by access restrictions imposed on international and local Palestinian staff

05 Nov 2008
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Somalia
Four Action Against Hunger staff members abducted in Somalia

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Action Against Hunger-UK
This morning, four expatriates working for humanitarian aid agency Action Against Hunger-France (also known as ACF-France) and two Kenyan pilots were kidnapped in Dhusa Mareb in Somalia. According to ACF knowledge, they were caught in an ambush by gunmen when on their way to the airport from where they were to return to Nairobi. The team was travelling as part of a convoy when they were attacked. They kidnapped the four Action Against Hunger staff members driving away by car along with the two Kenyan pilots of the plane chartered by the European
20 Aug 2008
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Georgia
Action Against Hunger's emergency team provides assistance to displaced people in Western Georgia

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Humanitarian agency Action Against Hunger (Action contre la Faim / ACF), present in Georgia since 1995, will provide assistance to displaced people in Kutaisi, Georgia's second largest city, where more than 13,000 have been temporarily accommodated.

Over a week since fighting erupted in South Ossetia, thousands of people continue to seek refuge in many affected cities across Georgia. Action Against Hunger estimates that around 13,000 people from South Ossetia, Gori and neighbouring Abkhazia have fled their homes and taken refuge in Kutaisi, the country's second largest city. Seeking

22 Jul 2008
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Liberia
Global food crisis hits Liberia: Why are we waiting to act

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Humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger has published a report about the effects of rising food prices on people living in Monrovia, Liberia. Action Against Hunger is now raising the alarm about the seriousness of the situation. Urgent intervention is needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating any further. However, the international community is yet to turn empty declarations of intention into firm and decisive action.

The global food crisis, primarily caused by an increase in the price of food and fuel, has been widely reported

11 Jul 2008
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Philippines (the)
Philippines: Action Against Hunger is providing drinking water and food supplies to 22,500 survivors

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Action Against Hunger-UK
Over the next two months, Action Against Hunger will provide drinking water to 15,000 people in Mindanao and distribute food supplies to 7,500 people living on the islands of Corcuera and Banton.

Nearly three weeks ago Typhoon Fenghsen struck the Philippines, leaving survivors without shelter, drinking water and sufficient food. In the islands of Corcuera and Banton, more than 80,000 people were affected by the typhoon. In Mindanao region, some 60,000 people have been displaced and are in need of immediate help.

Action Against Hunger is launching an