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Source: IRIN Another food crisis is unfolding in West Africa's arid Sahel region, putting 10 million people at risk of hunger. Preventing such a scenario, or even better, avoiding it altogether, would be a noteworthy goal. IRIN asked several experts and practitioners how to avoid recurring food crises in the region.

Source: IRIN "Crowd-sourcing" is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.

Source: Reuters * Turkey threatens to sever ties if no apology * Relations between former close allies at record low * Obama to meet Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday By Ibon Villelabeitia ANKARA, July 5 ...

Source: Reuters By David Clarke DURBAN, July 4 (Reuters Life!) - The boat speeds out of Durban's port before dawn carrying men with a crucial job: checking the nets that keep sharks at bay each day before thousands ...

Source: UNHCR UNHCR estimates that over the next three to five years more than 805,000 refugees will need resettling in third countries, as there will neither be a possibility for them to return to their homes nor ...

Source: Reuters By Kamran Haider ISLAMABAD, July 5 (Reuters) - Pakistan's prime minister on Monday called on political parties and religious leaders to help the state and army fight militancy after suicide ...

Source: Reuters (Adds dropped name in paragraph 16) * Hundreds of Kurdish children jailed on terror charges * Turkey violates UN conventions on children -rights groups * PKK violence could handicap reform of ...

Source: Reuters * Strike unlikely to affect World Cup * Unions still hope for resolution without strike (Adds, analyst comment) PRETORIA, July 5 (Reuters) - Unions representing 1.3 million South African ...

Source: Reuters July 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1200 GMT on Monday. * Denotes new or updated items * MOSUL - Two suspected insurgents were killed during an exchange of gunfire ...

Source: Reuters * Clinton condemns Russian 'occupation' of South Ossetia * Solution may be to strengthen Georgian economy, politics * Improving U.S.-Russia ties worries some Georgians By Arshad Mohammed ...

Source: IRIN Logistical and funding constraints could cause shortages in the food aid pipeline from July onward, hampering distributions to some of Niger's 7.8 million food-insecure people, say NGOs and the World Food Programme (WFP). More cash distributions could be the answer.

Source: Reuters June 16 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1030 GMT on Wednesday. BAJAUR - Pakistani paramilitary troops backed by helicopter gunships and artillery killed 12 militants ...

Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, June 16 (Reuters) - Japan on Wednesday urged the world not to dictate to Sri Lanka amid post-war reconciliation efforts and renewed calls from the West for a probe into ...

Source: Reuters * Two Sudanese rebels to appear voluntarily at ICC * Case is fourth involving conflict in Darfur AMSTERDAM, June 16 (Reuters) - Two Sudanese rebel leaders suspected of war crimes in Darfur will ...

Source: Reuters * Rebel gunman kills soldier in fractious north Yemen * Soldier preventing dissemination of rebel tapes-ministry SANAA, June 16 (Reuters) - Yemen accused Shi'ite rebels on Wednesday of shooting ...

Source: Reuters LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - An exiled Iranian opposition group denied on Wednesday that some of its members had been arrested in Tehran. Iranian state television reported on Tuesday that members of ...

Source: IRIN If you landed here today and knew nothing about Aceh, you would never know that a devastating tsunami in 2004 had wiped out homes, buildings, roads and more than 167,000 lives in this province.

MAG (Mines Advisory Group)

Reporting period: 1-31 May 2010

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Source: Reuters (Repeats to add cross-reference to related item) * Obama says will inform BP it must set up fund * Calls for legislation to break addiction to fossil fuels * Obama offers no specifics on ...

Source: Reuters (Adds Israel says infiltrators were drug smugglers) JERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a drug smuggler who infiltrated from Egypt on Wednesday, a military spokesman said ...