By Anna Yukhananov

June 15 (Reuters) - When the heads of the World Bank and the United Nations flew into the violence-wracked African city of Goma on a cloudy day last month, it was the first time the giants of international development had joined forces in the struggle to help the world's most fragile regions.

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Author: Marvin Hokstam

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Trash-clogged drainage canals, growing development in low-lying areas and increasingly extreme weather are adding up to worsening flooding in Suriname.

Last month, Suriname was lashed by heavy rains – nearly double the usual rainfall for the period - that led to evacuations and crop and livestock losses as floodwater rapidly overflowed the country’s waterways.

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Source: Reuters - Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:23 PM
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• Rebels say government hurry is hurting talks

• Negotiators to discuss political future of FARC

By Jeff Franks

HAVANA, June 11 (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist-led FARC rebels opened their latest round of peace talks with the government on Tuesday with a proposal to delay elections scheduled for 2014 by a year, which the government quickly rejected.

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:04 PM
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondent

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – About 100,000 people uprooted by fighting in northern Myanmar need urgent help to survive the monsoon season, aid agencies warned as they urged donors to support a $50 million appeal.

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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:42 AM Author: Katy Migiro

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced due to conflict in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state and insecurity has prevented humanitarian agencies from delivering aid.

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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Thu, 6 Jun 2013 05:01 AM
Author: Katy Migiro

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations is preparing to deliver emergency medical care to tens of thousands of displaced people in South Sudan’s troubled Jonglei state, almost a month after they fled into the bush to escape conflict.

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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:19 AM
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation Correspondent

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Lack of humanitarian aid and protection for tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state are creating a “perfect storm” for the trafficking of Kachin women to neighbouring China, a rights group said on Wednesday.

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PARIS, June 4 (Reuters) - Mali's foreign minister said on Tuesday that nations in the Sahara were not doing enough to stop an Islamist threat spreading across the region and urged more intelligence-sharing and joint military operations.

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KATUTHIA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Before arriving at Katuthia village in lower Eastern Kenya, a visitor travels through parched countryside, with stretches of land sprouting newly sown crops that are already withering after three days without rain.

Lone herders trailed by cattle and goats cast glance at the skies, hoping rain will fall again soon to fill the drinking troughs. Until it does, some will stop at Katuthia village and join groups of women gathered at the Kasomo dam, all drawn there by the same thing: water.