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Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths
By Jane Regan*
PORT-AU-PRINCE - As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti brought exponential increases in the numbers of people sickened and killed by cholera.
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U.S. Calls on Mali Junta to Withdraw from Politics
By Souleymane Gano
DAKAR - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to remain in power nor the strength to deal with humanitarian and security challenges facing the West African country.
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"Not a Famine, but an Issue of Food Insecurity"
By Louise Redvers
JOHANNESBURG - Millions of Angola’s poorest families are facing critical food insecurity as a prolonged dry spell across large parts of the country has destroyed harvests and killed off livestock.
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War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism.
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Bomb Hits Syrian Truck Escorting U.N. Convoy
By Correspondents*
DOHA, Qatar - A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck near Deraa, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the U.N. observer mission passed by.
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Clearer Targets Urged for U.S. Foreign Aid
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Given the likely persistence of political pressure to reduce the yawning federal deficit, the United States – whether under President Barack Obama or his presumed Republican challenger, Mitt Romney – must be more selective in its foreign aid programme, according to a new report released here Tuesday by two influential think tanks.
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Child Soldiers Used in Mali Conflict
By William Lloyd-George
NIAMEY - It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region.
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Disarmament Sparks Violence in South Sudan
By Jared Ferrie
JUBA - Civil society groups are calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw support from a disarmament programme they say could spark further violence in South Sudan’s volatile Jonglei state.
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Mali Heading Closer to Civil War
By William Lloyd-George
NIAMEY - Since January, various groups of Tuareg rebels in Mali have come together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad.
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Canada's Trade and Aid Appear Increasingly Aligned
By Fawzia Sheikh
TORONTO - Canada is ending bilateral aid programmes in eight countries and refocusing efforts in five others due to "high operating costs", a move which the umbrella group representing Canadian international development organisations say is difficult to immediately measure but will affect some of the poorest countries in the world.
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Mali - Barely Surviving As One Country, Let Alone Two
By William Lloyd-George
ABALA, Niger - It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town of Amderamboukane in Mali fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things; the fighting had already begun.
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Armed Groups in Northern Mali Raping Women
By William Lloyd-George
NIAMEY - Increasing numbers of Malian women are being raped by Tuareg rebels and armed groups that have swept across the north of Mali since the beginning of year, expelling all government troops from the region.
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U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving
By Linus Atarah
HELSINKI - When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to blame the Islamist Al-Shabaab for blocking humanitarian assistance from reaching its zone of control in southern Somalia.
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