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Optimistic U.N. to triple international staff in Somali capital by July

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Although suicide bombings and shootings continue in Mogadishu, the UN plans to increase its presence to stem corruption in aid projects managed from outside the country.

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Aid agencies gear up to give long-term support to China’s quake-hit region

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:16 GMT
Source: alertnet // Thin Lei Win

BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Three days after a strong earthquake in China killed at least 208 people, injured 11,800 and left tens of thousands displaced, aid agencies and the government are struggling to reach people cut off by the disaster.

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Pakistan revamps climate change research centre

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ISLAMABAD (AlertNet) – Pakistan’s government has boosted the funding of a state institution that researches the impacts of climate change, and granted it autonomy, in an effort to increase the quality of its recommendations on climate resilience for government policy and programmes.

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Kenya + 2 others
Small farmers take the stage to sway climate justice debate

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LONDON (AlertNet) - In northern Kenya's impoverished and drought-prone Turkana region, a group called Kenya Climate Justice Women Champions is encouraging local women to grow hardy, nutritious crops like amaranth, sorghum and cassava, to improve their own health and that of their children. The vitamins and minerals from these foods means mothers are less likely to die in childbirth and can better breastfeed their babies. The micronutrients help kids avoid growing up stunted and give them the energy to attend school.

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Little treatment for Iraq's mental health problems, strain on families

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Post-conflict Iraq has made some progress in addressing the needs of people suffering mental health problems – a large but often overlooked group - but there is much more to be done, an Iraqi-born psychiatrist says.

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Zimbabwe eyes irrigation law to boost farm sector

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By Madalitso Mwando

Here rains have been erratic, as in many parts of the country, exposing the need for new ways to help rural farming communities access enough water and produce enough food.

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Tens of thousands flee conflict in NW Pakistan valley

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Clashes among militant groups and an army operation to flush them out have uprooted nearly 48,000 people, including 22,000 children, from the Tirah Valley in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber agency since mid-March, according to local government data.

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Hunger stalks villagers in drought-hit west India

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NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Millions of people in India's western state of Maharashtra are at serious risk of hunger after two years of low rainfall, coupled with poor management of water resources, have left dams empty, farmland parched and cattle emaciated, aid agencies warned on Thursday.

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Malawians rethink maize planting as climate dries

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Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:44 GMT Source: alertnet // Karen Sanje

MZUZU, Malawi (AlertNet) - Less than three years after Ezelina Nyirongo reluctantly abandoned cultivation of her favourite local maize varieties, the 48-year-old from Rumphi in northern Malawi is thinking of going back to them.

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As extreme weather drives rustling, pastoralists turn to farming

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Tue, 2 Apr 2013 23:30 GMT

Source: Alertnet // Isaiah Esipisu

ISIOLO, Kenya (AlertNet) – In Nambeyo village in Kenya’s semi-arid Isiolo County, former pastoralist Joseph Elila and his wife Pauline are busy threshing sorghum to remove the grain from the stalks. The couple has been converted into smallholder dry-land farmers after they lost their entire animal stock to cattle rustlers two years ago.

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Thailand + 1 other
Burmese refugee camps built with materials that fuel fire

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By Alisa Tang

BANGKOK (AlertNet) - No one knows yet what sparked the fire two weeks ago in the remote Burmese refugee camp in northern Thailand, but what is clear is that the refugees’ makeshift bamboo-and-leaf thatch homes stood no chance against the flames.

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Tanzania fund seeks to protect eastern mountain forests

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MUHEZA, Tanzania (AlertNet) - Khadija Mtungakoa, a 38-year-old mother of three, wears a broad smile as she prepares food on her energy-saving stove.

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Aid agencies demand end to looting in CAR crisis

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:07 GMT

Source: Alertnet // Megan Rowling

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LONDON (AlertNet) - Humanitarian officials have called for an end to looting in Central African Republic (CAR) after United Nations and aid groups’ premises were robbed and damaged during a coup by rebel forces who seized power in the capital Bangui on Sunday.

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Turkey + 1 other
Orthopaedic surgeon uses drainpipes to make prosthetic legs for Syrian amputees

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Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:25 GMT

Source: alertnet // Magda Mis

LONDON (AlertNet) – When friends and colleagues asked Viquar Qurashi how best to help Syrian refugees, he knew the answer immediately.

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Sahel crisis not over yet, WFP chief warns

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By Emma Batha

LONDON (AlertNet) – Persistent fighting in northern Mali is hampering efforts to tackle hunger caused by a combination of conflict and last year’s drought, the head of the U.N.’s World Food Programme said.

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Brazil moves to reduce disaster risk as severe rainfall worsens

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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:15 GMT

Source: alertnet // Rafael Spuldar

SAO PAULO (AlertNet) – Increasingly heavy summer rainfall, linked to changing climate conditions, is taking a worsening toll on Brazil. Just this month, 30 people died when heavy rain caused landslides in Petrópolis, a city located in the highlands of Rio de Janeiro state.

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WFP chief says not withdrawing staff from Syria

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By Emma Batha

LONDON (AlertNet) - The United Nations decision to move some staff out of Syria amid escalating violence in Damascus will not affect the U.N. World Food Programme’s plans to deliver food to some 2.5 million people, the WFP head said.

The world body said it would relocate about half its 100 foreign staff after mortar bombs fell near their hotel in the Syrian capital on Monday, and had asked 800 local staff to work from home.

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Water-sparing rice farming proves viable in Kenya

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By Isaiah Esipisu

MWEA, Kenya (AlertNet) – Faced with pressure on supplies of irrigation water due to climate shifts and an increasing population, rice farmers in four Kenyan irrigation schemes have adopted a new crop management system that allows them to grow their crops without flooding their paddies throughout the season.

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Rwanda + 3 others
Why poorer villages are choosing to pay for water

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LONDON (AlertNet) – What happened when families in a small community in northern Rwanda, were given a choice: pay a small fee for an improved water source, or continue to get free water from local streams?

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Mali conflict ups pressure on climate-stressed herders

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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:50 GMT

Source: alertnet // Soumaila T. Diarra

BAMAKO (AlertNet) – The recent conflict in northern Mali, where the situation remains volatile, has left many livestock herders in fear of losing millions of cattle, sheep and goats at a time when they were already struggling to find enough pasture for their animals due to drought.

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