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Sahel food crises – Interventions by Terre des hommes
For the third time in a decade, the Sahel region is suffering from a serious food crisis. 13 million people, 3 million of them children, are again threatened by food shortages in the countries where Terre des hommes works: Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Senegal.
Shelling, shaky truce challenge UN few in Syria
A handful of soldiers in blue caps put a tentative United Nations presence on the ground in Syria, predicting success for their mission even as shells continued to fall
Cash aid transfers should be standardised - report
Aid agencies and donors should develop a “tool box” for the use of cash transfers, says a report from Cash Learning Partnership
Karzai says NATO failed as 18-hr Kabul attack ends
Battles which broke out at mid-day on Sunday gripped the capital's central districts through the night, with explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and surrounding streets
