Southern African Crisis
January 2003
01/31/2003
Humanitarian groups and aid agencies have highlighted the need to include displaced farm workers and urban poor in emergency relief programmes in Zimbabwe, according to a report released by United Nations Relief and Recovery Unit.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Zimbabwe] [Cities] [Emergency Relief] [Food] Image: UN World Food Programme delivers food © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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01/30/2003
Although the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa has been mitigated through swift food-aid deliveries, a horrifying new disaster is looming in the region from the threat of HIV/AIDS, according to a United Nations special envoy this week.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Southern Africa] [Emergency Relief] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] |
01/28/2003
Following a visit to the southern African country of Mozambique, World Relief President Clive Calver said there was "a grotesque unawareness" about the impact of the food crisis, especially in remote areas.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Mozambique] [Southern Africa] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
01/27/2003
The World Food Programme (WFP) has highlighted the emergence of two alarming trends amid the Southern Africa humanitarian crisis - the theft of relief food stocks and the rise in hunger-related deaths.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Africa] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
01/16/2003
The El Nino weather phenomenon threatens catastrophe across Southern Africa if, as predicted, it strikes before the next harvest, warns the Catholic aid agency CAFOD.
Read moreFrom: CAFOD Related: [Africa] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Environment] |
01/13/2003
Preliminary figures from the latest vulnerability assessment indicate that the number of people facing hunger in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland has risen significantly.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Swaziland] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [Food] |
01/07/2003
Malawi's finance minister will be among those questioned about the sale of the strategic maize reserves just months before widespread crop failure, says the head of a commission of inquiry.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Malawi] [Agriculture] [Emergency Relief] [Food] [Governance] |
01/02/2003
The United Nations Children's Fund says it is $18 million short of its $26 million appeal for a programme to help children and women in six hunger-affected Southern African countries.
Read moreFrom: ReliefWeb UN OCHA Related: [Southern Africa] [Aid] [Children] [Food] [Gender] [United Nations] |
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