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Salma Bahramy
Senior Communications Officer

I’m crouched inside a tea nursery high up in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya, and George Ngethe is patiently explaining to me how tea is produced.

“What you see here will look like that in less than a year,” he points to the hills all around us. We’re surrounded by thousands of acres of tea bushes owned by small farmers throughout this Kenya’s largest province.

Liz Hummer
Online Content Manager

All but two Mercy Corps staff members have been evacuated from Bentiu, the beleaguered border town that has been in the news recently as the target of Sudanese air strikes.

Rising tensions between Sudan and South Sudan over contested border areas have brought the two countries to the brink of war. Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan's Unity State, has been bombed twice since late February, allegedly by Sudanese warplanes.

Situation still dire as malnutrition and death rates remain high

PORTLAND, Ore. - The global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps is providing cash, therapeutic food and nutrition screenings to thousands of people in hunger-stricken Niger. Conditions in Niger have become increasingly desperate in recent months as a severe drought, failed harvests, and rising food prices have led to dramatic food shortfalls. The government of Niger estimates that more than 5.5 million people are at risk of going hungry.

Seven leading aid agencies call on donors to act now to prevent humanitarian disaster

Niamey (Niger), March 21, 2012 – A new study has found that between 70 and 90 per cent of people from communities in western and eastern Niger fear their food stocks will run out before the next harvest, creating an imminent ‘hunger gap’. All families surveyed said they had already reduced the amount of food consumed each day because they did not have enough to eat.

Andie Long
Senior Communications Officer

Toilets are a luxury in Kanchanpur District. In fact, throughout this rural area of southwest Nepal, few people have access to even rudimentary latrines. Forced to relief themselves in the open, their villages face significant health risks, including the rampant spread of diseases like cholera and typhoid.

Jasmine Avgerakis
Disaster Risk Reduction Intern, Colombia

With the combination of a broken levee and a rainy season that brought four times the average rainfall, the flooding in Colombia in 2010 reached far and wide. In the southern part of the Atlántico department on the Caribbean coast, Campo de la Cruz was completely submerged under water. And Fredy Montero, the star forward on the Seattle Sounders MLS team, felt the call to help his hometown from the Pacific Northwest.

Les acteurs humanitaires appellent à un financement rapide et conséquent

Niamey, 12 Mars 2012 - Les acteurs humanitaires sont préoccupés de l’épuisement précoce des stocks de nourriture de nombreuses familles nigériennes et s’inquiètent des risques d’aggravation de la crise alimentaire et nutritionnelle si les réponses en cours ne sont pas rapidement renforcées.

Selon le Système d’Alerte Précoce (SAP) national, plus de 6 millions de Nigériens ont besoin d’une assistance immédiate.