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MSF Withdrawal Part of Ongoing Debate Over Humanitarian Aid

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Aid organisations have differing views about the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit, after Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) pulled out last week some still hope the Summit will help bring about much needed change.

One-Third of Papua New Guineans Suffering Drought Crisis

By Catherine Wilson
An estimated one-third of the population of Papua New Guinea, the most populous Pacific Island state, is now suffering in from the country’s worst drought this century and experts predict El Nino’s influence will carry on through March 2016.


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