It also gets support from the Swedish aid agency SIDA, the World Bank, United Kingdom's DfID and the United States Aid Agency USAid.
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The aid agency warned the camp had reached breaking point.
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World Vision, a humanitarian aid agency, said 400 workers were in Haiti.
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Myanmar has restricted most aid agency access to the north of Rakhine.
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The aid agency said poor sanitation could lead to diphtheria, cholera, and measles.
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The aid agency warned of "pockets of what is close to a famine".
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Aid agency Caritas put the figure at 15.5 percent last August, UNICEF said.
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Last month Mark Green, the head of USAID, America's government aid agency, visited South Sudan.
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The commerce ministry, China's lead aid agency, says most projects are initiated by recipient states.
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It would also shrink America's overseas aid agency, USAID, and roll it into the State Department.
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Aid agency International Medical Corps, which gave medical care to the survivors, also confirmed their account.
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Aid agency the Norwegian Refugee Council said it was not clear where the refugees would go.
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The aid agency aims to build trust with religious and other local leaders before outbreaks occur.
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The aid agency CARE, which works in the area, said Friday that the risk was high.
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Sida is an aid agency that works under the directives of the Swedish government and parliament.
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"If an aid agency cuts a check to the family, who controls that check?" she asked.
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People traveling to the affected communities should take alternative routes, the aid agency posted on Twitter.
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New York-based IRC, another large aid agency, is also operating a small cash program in Idlib.
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USAID, the American foreign aid agency, made news in October by testing a nutrition program against cash.
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The incident only came to light after the aid agency spoke to survivors currently held in detention.
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Deepmala Mahla, South Sudan director at aid agency Mercy Corps, said the overall situation was rapidly worsening.
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The fecund soils of its green capital, Kigali, sprout aid-agency offices like grass after the rains.
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The aid agency led the complex operation in snowy winter conditions with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
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Most find war and poverty when they get there, said the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) aid agency.
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An American aid agency is blocking Palestinian access to $10 million intended for peace programs with Israelis.
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In some cases the police assault or even rape women who come for help, the aid agency said.
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Some said they had hardly eaten in weeks, scrambling for supplies handed out by a local aid agency.
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Even in a world riddled with poverty, nearly every government, nonprofit and aid agency struggles with this issue.
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Aid agency Mercy Corps told CNN that acute malnutrition around Hodeidah has doubled in just the last month.
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Most were exhausted, extremely hungry, and thirsty as they fled Islamic State territory, the global aid agency said.
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JICA, the Japanese aid agency, has tried to spread knowledge of town planning to other Asian countries, including Thailand.
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And more than a quarter of the half-million meals the aid agency provided were served there, Jennings said.
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"The Trump administration is openly defying and lying to Congress," the British aid agency Oxfam said in a statement.
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He recalls being cornered by a young American graduate at a party thrown by an aid agency in Juba.
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Aid agency Oxfam has said 10 million people, mostly in Africa, face hunger because of droughts and poor rains.
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Jean-Olivier Schmidt of GiZ, the German government aid agency, helped advise Rwanda on setting up Mutuelles de Santé.
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Aid agency CARE International said Friday that at least 20 people had been killed and at least 50 injured.
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Aid agency officials say Cyclone Idai destroyed 2000% of the Mozambique city of Beira, home to about 2400,2000 people.
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But the aid agency said it could not disclose whether the organization was under investigation as reported in some media.
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Ten-year-olds in Syria read like five-year-olds in developed countries, says Save the Children, an aid agency.
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The migrants were transferred to the MSF ship Bourbon Argos, one of several aid agency vessels operating in the area.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Areas of northeast Nigeria rendered inaccessible by an Islamist insurgency may be experiencing famine, an aid agency report said.
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"That means a potential spike in cholera cases," said John Hasse, the humanitarian aid agency World Vision's national director in Haiti.
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Some 2 million Afghans have been deported or chosen to leave Iran and Pakistan since 2015, British aid agency Oxfam said.
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Myanmar has restricted most aid agency access to the north of Rakhine, with some officials accusing them of supporting the insurgents.
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Aid agency Plan International says hundreds of girls are forced into child marriages by parents too poor to buy hygiene products.
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Tim Docking co-chairs the Private Sector Advisory Council at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent U.S. government foreign aid agency.
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Partners in Health, an aid agency that has long worked in Haiti, says there have been 26,000 cholera cases this year.
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The international aid agency said it was ordered by soldiers to close its main office in Maiduguri, Borno state, on Wednesday.
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The aid agency closures and the killing come against the backdrop of a change in the military's approach to the insurgency.
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent bilateral foreign aid agency, improved its scores the most, increasing by 2628 points to 28503.
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The number of attacks on aid agency staff there rose to 140 last year from 75 in 2014, the world body said.
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Most of the cases are defended by the Public Attorney's Office (PAO), a legal aid agency attached to the Department of Justice.
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All those who fled were ordered to return to northeast Nigeria, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres said earlier in the day.
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In early May, the head of a leading European aid agency described being "shocked to the bone" after a visit to Yemen.
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"We are ready to get assistance into Aleppo right away," said Dominic Graham, Syria response director for international aid agency Mercy Corps.
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A girl collects firewood distributed by an aid agency at the refugee and migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, Monday, March 28, 2016.
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It took less than three more months to reach 2,000, according to Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry and aid agency figures.
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Mr Mannan was the editor of Roopbaan, the country's first magazine for gay and transgender readers, and worked for America's aid agency.
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This kind of rhetoric reflects a "persistent misunderstanding" of the project, sighs Hiroaki Endo, who heads the Japanese aid agency in Mozambique.
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Her mother couldn't access health services for her that would have been provided by the United Nations aid agency for Palestine refugees.
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Because individuals know their own lives and needs much more than a think tank from some paternalistic or politically motivated aid agency.
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An American couple, Andrew and Denise Brandt, who work for aid agency Jhpiego Health Services, were present at the airport bombings and survived.
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Clare Dixon, Latin America chief for the British Catholic aid agency CAFOD, said its environmental emphasis might help influence the climate change debate.
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But he's never gotten one, perhaps because he has expelled the Drug Enforcement Administration, the American aid agency and the United States ambassador.
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Despite bumper rains, more than 1m people may not have had enough to eat earlier this year, according to USAID, America's aid agency.
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid agency working in northeast Syria, said it was aware of two more babies dying on Wednesday.
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An aid agency report seen by Reuters said the woman, Mariatu Jalloh, had potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease.
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Anna Marriott, health policy advisor for the international aid agency Oxfam, said the report was a "damning indictment" of governments' efforts on health.
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Kenya and Zambia have also promised to supply pads to schoolgirls - although aid agency WaterAid said Zambia had yet to commit any funding.
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Human rights activists, journalists and United Nations aid agency staff members were threatened, harassed, detained and in some instances killed, the team said.
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But with the borders closed and around 100 migrants arriving each day, Serbian centers are reaching breaking point, says aid agency CARE International.
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In just one town, Marsh Harbour, satellite images show about 1,100 buildings have been destroyed, according to the humanitarian aid agency Map Action.
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Millions have been displaced and are in need of emergency assistance, Veronique Aubert of Save the Children aid agency, told the event in London.
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A U.S. aid agency in March canceled nearly $500 million of funding for Tanzania partly on concerns over enforcement of the new cybercrimes law.
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One individual who is struggling despite receiving $2500,400 from an Italian aid agency to set up a hardware store in Senegal is Khadim Faye.
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It notes the "increased likelihood of civil unrest" and the possibility of demonstrations at aid agency offices in the state already racked by violence.
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Oftentimes, UNFPA is the first, and sometimes the only, aid agency helping women in the world's most dire humanitarian crises like Yemen and Syria.
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She highlighted the work the American foreign aid agency is doing on the continent, as well as of her child-focused "Be Best" platform.
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In December, Britain's foreign aid agency gave it top grades on a "value for money" assessment of 3003 aid organizations to which it donates.
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An aid agency said separately that 10,000 civilians had fled the enclave since last week and were arriving hungry and desperate at a camp.
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More than half a million Palestinian refugee students attend 700 UNRWA schools across Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, the aid agency says.
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ACCRA (Reuters) - Two Canadian women working for an aid agency were kidnapped outside a hostel in Ghana's second city of Kumasi on Tuesday, police said.
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It took aim at some of the country's richest men—including one whose wife worked for an aid agency, for which his company made deliveries.
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The aid agency had surveyed 5,500 structures before the storm and made an assessment based on photographs provided by the Defence Ministry in the Netherlands.
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The camps often lack medical facilities and running water, leading aid agency workers to worry about an outbreak of water-borne diseases such as cholera.
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The teenager's parents and the Philippines Public Attorney's Office, a government legal aid agency, have filed murder charges against the policemen at the justice department.
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Before he knew it, he was giving food to the Salvation Army to deliver and dispatching food trucks to neighborhoods no aid agency had reached.
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In Nigeria, they have the potential to give 2200 million residents access to electricity, according to GIZ, the German aid agency that supports the initiative.
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Strengthening the development pillar is particularly critical, including by elevating USAID as a wholly independent lead aid agency with strong policy, planning, and budget authority.
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Earlier this week aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres warned that many teenagers in Moria camp on Lesbos island had attempted suicide or were harming themselves.
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Rania had been invited by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an aid agency which has installed showers, toilets, laundry facilities and lights at the site.
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Thousands of people have fled Iraq for the Rajm al-Salibi border crossing and another camp further north in recent months, the global aid agency said.
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Thousands of cold and scared people including women, children, the sick and injured, remain in the enclave, the aid agency said in a statement on Saturday.
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"We called the Italian coastguard and sent our coordinates, asking for assistance as people started to fall in the water," a survivor told the aid agency.
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The aid agency Mercy Corps said last year that a new surge of migration from Tunisia began in 2017, a time when the economy was dipping.
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Coalition also forced the suspension of flights into Sanaa International Airport for 72 hours from late on Monday, an airport official and aid agency sources said.
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The UN's child aid agency UNICEF said the students that died were between the ages of 15 and 17 and demanded an investigation into the killings.
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The assaults came as more people are on the move in Rubkona county to try to reach food distributions in the area, the aid agency said.
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Hickenlooper also received $2,800 from Steven Kaufmann, an attorney with Morrison & Foerster who was chief of staff of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a federal aid agency.
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But E&E News reported that the federal aid agency has overestimated the damage to states and underestimated the given state's ability to handle the situation.
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Five gunmen stormed the offices of international aid agency Save the Children in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 24.
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As he visits the gateway from North Africa to Europe, Francis is due to meet in Morocco with migrants and officials of a key aid agency.
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The rescued Japanese man was eating dinner with seven other Japanese, all of whom were consultants for Japan's foreign aid agency, a Japanese government spokesman said.
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The medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that 23 patients had "died of starvation" at one health center in Madaya since Dec. 1.
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Penn is directing the film, about the head of an international aid agency in Africa (Theron) who meets a relief aid doctor (Javier Bardem) amid a revolution.
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Menendez said the latest plan "would be a devastating blow" to the State Department and the U.S. government's main aid agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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He is also trying to export China's soft power, which explains the creation of a new aid agency and a new culture ministry, both with expanded responsibilities.
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Also Wednesday, a United Nations aid agency called on Israel to allow emergency fuel into the Gaza Strip to avert the shutdown of hospitals and sanitation facilities.
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Gunmen stormed an office of aid agency Save the Children and battled security forces surrounding the building, killing at least two people and wounding 12, officials said.
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The rescued Japanese man was eating dinner with the seven other Japanese, all of whom were consultants for Japan's foreign aid agency, a Japanese government spokesman said.
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The seven Japanese killed were working on projects for the Japan International Cooperation Agency, an overseas aid agency, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday.
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Colleagues expressed shock and disbelief at the death of Cox, a Cambridge University graduate who spent a decade working for aid agency Oxfam and promoted women's issues.
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Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the U.N.'s humanitarian aid agency, described an "astronomically difficult situation," although he declined to specify who was responsible for the breakdown.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Abe said he was shocked at death of Tetsu Nakamura, the Japanese aid agency chief who was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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Then Thomas heard that a local school was offering meals for students, a "school feeding program" supported by U.S.A.I.D., the American aid agency, and Catholic Relief Services.
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"Once women migrate, the children become vulnerable, and often families are compelled to separate," said Madhuwanti Tuladhar, child protection coordinator with aid agency Plan International in Nepal.
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The seven Japanese killed were working on projects involving the Japan International Cooperation Agency, an overseas aid agency, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday.
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"Markets have exhausted food supplies and medicine is running out, leaving sick children and the elderly at particular risk," Save the Children aid agency said in a statement.
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The global aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres pulled out of the conference earlier this month saying it had lost hope the participants could address weaknesses in emergency response.
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At the time, Erekat accused Kushner and Greenblatt of trying to topple the Abbas-led West Bank autonomy government and dismantle the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees.
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The State Department, which channels America's contributions to the UN and its own foreign-aid agency, was told to chop $10.1bn from its budget, a cut of 28%.
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When she worked during the Philippines' devastating 2009 floods, for example, cluster systems were set up and led by the United Nations, the world's largest multilateral aid agency.
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Congress is expected to pass this week a bipartisan overhaul of the federal government's development aid agency through crucial funding legislation due before the end of the month.
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A major aid agency said Wednesday that 20163 million people around the world were internally displaced by conflicts and natural disasters last year, calling it a global crisis.
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If it weren't for U.S.A.I.D., the American aid agency, and nonprofit groups like Catholic Relief Services that work in these villages, far more cadavers would be piling up.
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"This is medieval," said Stefan Dercon, a professor of economic policy at Oxford and a former chief economist of Britain's bilateral aid agency, the Department for International Development.
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"Many people are arriving hungry, exhausted and with no food or water," Mark Pierce, Bangladesh country director for the Save the Children aid agency said in a statement.
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This week the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a U.S. aid agency, published a study that found women refugees also face significantly higher legal barriers to employment than men.
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Conflict between farmers and herdsmen in just four Nigerian states could cost the country at least $14 billion annually in lost potential revenues, according to aid agency Mercy Corps.
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The global aid agency, headed by former British foreign secretary David Miliband, is not suspended from U.S. funding, said a spokesman for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Many of IBM's African problem designations are evocative of the development field— the decades-long aid-agency and NGO driven campaign to solve Africa's long-standing socio-economic issues.
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Here are some reactions to her speech from diplomats, aid agency officials, human rights groups and others: JAMES GOMEZ, Amnesty International regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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M-PESA, Kenya's mobile-payment system, evolved out of a pilot scheme in 2005 by Safaricom, the country's biggest mobile operator, financed by DFID, the British government's aid agency.
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The Pentagon spent hundreds of millions trying to build infrastructure, while the aid agency USAID tried to build capacity in the Afghan government to oversee and regulate the sector.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A U.S. aid agency has canceled nearly $500 million of funding for Tanzania after disputed elections in the Zanzibar archipelago of the east African country.
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The government's Legal Aid Agency, which funds legal action when people can't afford to pay, in the interests of fair access to justice, said it had stopped funding PIL.
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He dismissed as a "gross exaggeration" a report by aid agency MSF that there had been 125 rapes in town of Bentiu over a 10-day period last November.
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The first challenge is getting ex-fighters back in schools, said Christian Visnes at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the aid agency carrying out the project on the ground.
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In November attackers raped, beat and robbed more than 100 women and girls in northern South Sudan over a 10-day period, said aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cholera epidemic raging across Yemen is spiraling out of control, with around one child falling sick every minute, an aid agency warned on Wednesday.
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The WFP and the U.N.'s other main food aid agency, the Food and Agricultural Organization, said the U.N. relies on all available information and inputs, including official statistics.
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The aid agency, known as U.S.A.I.D., has supplied data to White House officials that lay out programs and amounts of aid given to those three countries, as is typical.
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But the British aid agency Oxfam said "very little is known of the plight of civilians" who chose to wait it out in Marawi, where sporadic clashes were continuing.
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Aid agency officials have said that 90% of the Mozambique city of Beira has been "destroyed" by the cyclone, warning that more than 500,43 people there have been impacted.
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Al Qaeda's branch in Bangladesh took credit on Tuesday for the killing of a U.S. government aid agency worker and his friend in his Dhaka apartment earlier this week.
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ISIS militants on Wednesday attacked the offices of British aid agency Save the Children in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing at least four people and injuring dozens.
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Sven Harmeling, who leads on climate change policy for aid agency CARE International, said U.N. science reports in the past year had made clear that worsening damage will happen.
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According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET), part of USAID, America's aid agency, 70m people worldwide will need emergency food aid this year; the highest level in decades.
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Conflict between farmers and herdsmen in just four Nigerian states could cost the country at least $14 billion annually in lost potential revenues, aid agency Mercy Corps said last year.
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Sporadic clashes between Taliban fighters and Afghan forces erupted on the outskirts of Ghazni on Monday as aid workers tried to get help into the city, aid agency officials said.
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Gula had previously spent five years working in rural communities such as Ghana, Panama, Honduras and Nicaragua as a staff member with the aid agency Global Brigades, a development organization.
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The aid agency voiced concerns that oil burning in trenches around the city - a tactic often used by retreating ISIL troops - will be harmful, especially to children and the elderly.
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The release and transfer would be managed by the U.N. and ICRC, an independent aid agency which said last week that an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 detainees could be exchanged.
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"Very clearly what is needed is livelihood recovery, because floods and landslides have really affected crops," said Maria Rosario Felizco, head of the British aid agency Oxfam in the Philippines.
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The center in Butembo was the same one torched by unknown assailants last week, an attack that prompted medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres to suspend activities in the area.
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At least 11 deaths have been attributed to electrocution, as rising waters become electrified in low-lying urban areas, according to the Edhi Foundation, the city's main emergency aid agency.
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Ranking Foreign Aid Agency Best Practices: New Donors, New Findings reviews foreign aid agencies based on criteria they developed using five categories: transparency, overhead costs, specialization, selectivity, and ineffective channels.
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Many of the damaged homes were in the provinces of Khan Hoa, Ninh Thuan and Phu Yen, the European Union's humanitarian aid agency reported earlier this week, citing local media.
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Festing, 67, a Briton, fired von Boeselager, accusing him of hiding the fact that he allowed the use of condoms when he ran Malteser International, the order's humanitarian aid agency.
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Mr. Tillerson was said to be angry that Mr. Sisi had broken a private promise, made in Washington, that he would not sign the harsh law on aid agency regulations.
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In Taink Khali, a nearly 30-minute hike off the main road, an Australian aid agency called Disaster Response Group was setting up a mobile clinic in a tiny shack.
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"The ICRC sees the release as a positive step and hopes that it will spur further releases and repatriations of conflict-related detainees," the aid agency said in a statement.
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More than 100 migrants died in early September when their crowded rubber boats were wrecked off the coast of Libya, the MSF aid agency on Monday quoted survivors as saying.
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Fears are growing for more than 256,2600 people in the Mozambique city of Beira, after aid agency officials warned that 298% of the area had been destroyed by Cyclone Idai.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta's approach to the restive Papua region.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)An international aid agency has been shut down in Nigeria after army bosses accused it of "aiding and abetting" terrorists in the country's war-torn northeast region.
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In just one month, militants have targeted the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, the offices of British aid agency Save the Children in Jalalabad, and a Shia cultural center in Kabul.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - An armed group that kidnapped humanitarian workers in northeastern Nigeria five months ago has claimed it killed four hostages, international aid agency Action Against Hunger said on Friday.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian aid agency (OCHA) said 350,000 Haitians need prompt assistance, including food and clean water, marking the worst humanitarian crisis in the nation since the 2010 devastating earthquake.
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Yet days after the waters receded, neighbors in the region say they still haven't seen anybody — from FEMA, the Red Cross, or any other aid agency — come by to help out.
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Many more cases simply go unreported, said Flavien Ndonko, a medical anthropologist who helped set up RENATA in the 2000s and now works for the aid agency Care International in Cameroon.
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On March 1st a loan agreement signed with the government by JICA, Japan's overseas aid agency, included ¥15.1bn ($137m) for the MADB, for onlending and to build capacity at the bank.
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But the UK-based aid agency said the solar panels survived the powerful cyclone due to forward planning, which it hopes will pay off as climate change brings more extreme weather.
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Breaking its silence on the case on Sunday, the independent aid agency identified the three as Louisa Akavi, a nurse from New Zealand, and Syrian drivers Alaa Rajab and Nabil Bakdounes.
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Grand Master Matthew Festing fired Grand Chancellor Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, accusing him of allowing the use of condoms in Myanmar when he ran Malteser International, the order's humanitarian aid agency.
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CAFOD, the Catholic Church of England and Wales' aid agency, commissioned the project, and Mitidieri collaborated with the London-based creative agency M&C Saatchi to create the photo essay's concept.
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"The communities in Kasai are doing everything they can to help, but they are already struggling with poverty, hunger and disease," said Chals Wontewe, country director for global aid agency Oxfam.
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Sweden's international aid agency Sida said that funding agreements for sexual and reproductive issues with organizations which go along with the U.S. presidential order could be canceled and support phased out.
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KABUL/NANGARHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunmen killed six people, including the head of a Japanese aid agency, on Wednesday in an attack on their vehicle in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
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FIXES U.S.A.I.D., the American foreign aid agency, is conducting a trial that measures the impact when poor people abroad are simply given money with which to decide what's best for themselves.
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Separately, the U.S. State Department said on Friday it was working with the Pentagon and U.S. aid agency to fly humanitarian assistance on Saturday to Cucuta, Colombia, on the Venezuelan border.
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The cholera figure is almost certainly exaggerated, but that does not diminish the scale and complexity of the humanitarian crisis, said Marc Poncin, Yemen emergency coordinator for aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières.
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Local officials, security and aid agency sources said more than 800 women and children — mostly from Turkey, Europe and former Soviet states — had been moved to a secure detention facility in Baghdad.
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Surveys of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres have shown at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state in the month after violence flared up on Aug.
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The aid agency pressed called for civilians to be allowed to leave for safer areas, and called for the wounded to be given access to medical care, in line with international law.
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Blessing's caseworker from the World Vision aid agency finally spots her, handing over the teen's newborn baby before helping mother and child up the homemade wooden ladder and into the last truck.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - More than 100 migrants died in early September when their crowded rubber boats were wrecked off the coast of Libya, the MSF aid agency on Monday quoted survivors as saying.
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By analyzing hundreds of household surveys, the aid agency found three main theories about Ebola: that it is a political strategy, that it is a business, and that it is a curse.
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A parliamentary watchdog and aid agencies criticized plans by Britain's foreign aid agency, the Department for International Development (DFID), to focus on "trade as an engine for poverty reduction", announced in January.
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Robert Mardini, ICRC regional director for the Near and Middle East, said the aid agency had drawn up contingency plans to pre-position food, medicines and other supplies under several possible scenarios.
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"This attack risks more people dying, but it also risks cutting the lifeline of millions of Yemenis," said Jolien Veldwijk, the acting country director in Yemen for the aid agency Care International.
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The United Nations aid agency officially considers all of them refugees, consistent with international law and United Nations refugee protocols, said Peter Mulrean, director of the Unrwa office at the United Nations.
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Mr. Pompeo appeared Tuesday afternoon at a hearing of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee to discuss the Trump administration's 2020 budget request for the State Department and the primary United States aid agency.
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JAKARTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia launched an international aid agency on Friday to strengthen its regional diplomatic relations, some of which have been strained by Jakarta's approach to the restive Papua region.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan rebuked the country's president on Friday for labeling Washington's aid agency "incompetent", escalating tensions between the countries over financial support on the eve of elections.
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Part of the problem is that less than 2 percent of humanitarian aid is earmarked for education, leading to delays in the reconstruction and repair of damaged schools, the global aid agency said.
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Parliament was recalled on Monday from campaigning for this week's referendum on EU membership to pay tribute to opposition Labour lawmaker Cox, who worked for aid agency Oxfam before entering parliament last year.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it was providing tents, water and sanitation equipment for a cholera treatment center in the port city of Pemba, which was badly hit by the storm.
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The raid began late Wednesday in the Day Mirdad district of Wardak Province, 100 miles from Kabul, the capital, at a hospital run by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, an international aid agency.
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But now the international aid agency is making it public, because it believes there are "new opportunities" to locate her now that all of the terrority held by ISIS has been liberated. 3.
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What I don't think is right is having our lead international aid agency, the US Agency for International Development, fund Soros projects around the world, from Latin America to Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Cox, who worked for aid agency Oxfam before entering parliament, was on her way to a meeting with constituents last week when she was shot and stabbed in the street in an attack.
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The separate joint aid agency report, "Fuelling the fire", criticized world powers including Russia, Britain, the United States, France, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran, which had "intensified their military engagement in Syria".
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NGO workers tend to agree that Syrians, unlike other displaced groups, are more individualistic and more proud and as result are more comfortable starting independent businesses than taking charity from an aid agency.
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The Senate is set to vote on a bill authorizing the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. foreign aid agency that gives large grants to developing countries, to enter regional compacts in Africa.
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But global human rights group Equality Now and aid agency ActionAid, which are both working to eradicate FGM in Sierra Leone, said they did not see the ban as a sign of progress.
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The office accomplished so little, the report said, that in 2012, the American aid agency cut its budgeted contribution for the asset-checking effort down to $9.4 million from the original $26.6 million.
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Soon afterward, American officials said they were ending funding to a United Nations aid agency for Palestinians and redirecting $25 million intended for hospitals in East Jerusalem, which has a mostly Palestinian population.
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And another memo Ms. Thomas passed along accused Mr. Doocey of obstruction related to State Department jobs, and claimed that he had surreptitiously switched one appointee for another for a foreign aid agency.
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"That Marine Le Pen is not in the second round — that's what I want," Fabienne Zellner, who runs a youth-aid agency, said outside a polling station in Paris's heavily immigrant 18th Arrondissement.
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But clearly we have reached a point where world leaders and even some aid agency heads cannot be counted on to call out the world's most egregious violators of basic standards of decency.
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Aya has been running a beauty salon out of her home for the past six months after completing a course at the beauty school, set up by aid agency the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
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ABUJA (Reuters) - The vast majority of almost 2 million Nigerians driven from their homes by the conflict with Boko Haram cannot return because of a lack of security, an aid agency said on Wednesday.
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NRC, an independent aid agency, said that over 80 percent of the people sheltering in displacement sites it visited over the last two weeks in Tanganyika do not have access to clean drinking water.
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Way back in the early '90's when I was just 21 years old, I was part of a small group of people setting up an aid agency and we needed money and support.
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It is the first funding by the U.S. government's main aid agency to help Venezuela's neighbors deal with the influx of hundreds of thousands of people trying to escape hunger and poverty in Venezuela.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's oil minister on Wednesday urged local oil and gas firms to help with providing aid to victims of severe flooding, as one international aid agency announced extra funds to bolster relief efforts.
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They are victims of a spat between the UN's World Food Programme and a Houthi-appointed aid agency that had the contracts to distribute WFP food but failed to account for who was getting what.
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"As families gathered to break their fasts for the Ramadan Iftar meal, several rockets hit the densely populated Neirab camp for Palestine refugees in Aleppo," the statement from the U.N. humanitarian aid agency UNRWA said.
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Silvia Novoa, director of aid agency World Vision Mexico, which is helping coordinate quake relief, said disaster preparation and response have dramatically improved in Mexico City since 1985, but other places have made slower progress.
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Tanzania won a five-year package of grants in 2008 worth $698 million from MCC, an independent U.S. government foreign aid agency, but the award of a second round of grants has now been shelved.
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The military departures so far have cut off more than 100,000 people from aid, and if more soldiers go, as many as 121,000 other civilians could flee their towns, one aid agency briefing note said.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - An aid convoy carrying food, medicines and other emergency supplies for 37,500 people has reached al Waer, a besieged suburb of the Syrian city of Homs, a U.N. aid agency said on Friday.
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Trump, who donated 1.4 million dual-language textbooks to children in Malawi, was asked by a reporter later if she intended to go home and ask the president about more funding for the aid agency.
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A report from the United States Agency for International Development, the American foreign aid agency, found that from 2008 to 2013, Colombia had the fourth-highest rate of murders of transgender people in the world.
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Jordan's key role in protecting geopolitical stability in the Middle East already makes it one of the highest per capita recipients of foreign aid in the world, according to figures from USAID, the U.S. aid agency.
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Arizona residents Andrew and Denise Brandt, who work for aid agency Jhpiego Health Services, were catching a connecting flight to Liberia on Thai Airlines when the two explosions rocked the departure hall of Brussels Zaventem Airport.
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GENEVA/RABAT (Reuters) - At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency.
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World Briefing Nearly 2.5 million people in the Central African Republic — half the population — are now facing hunger, double the figure from a year ago, the main food aid agency of the United Nations said Wednesday.
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The camp, run by the government aid agency the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD), was built to provide shelter for refugees but officers said the new arrivals would not be allowed to leave.
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The international aid agency, which had been delivering aid to northeast Syria since 2014, said it was providing civilians with fresh water and other basic needs since Turkey launched an incursion into the region last week.
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While relations between herders and farmers who were not involved deteriorated over the four years, those inside the project felt it was safer to work and travel without fear of violence, according to the aid agency.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The outgoing head of the United Nation's food aid agency voiced concern on Monday that the Trump administration's proposed cuts for U.N. aid agencies would leave children hungry in crisis-hit areas.
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Sven Harmeling, policy lead for climate change with aid agency CARE International, said the global commission could explore new ways to raise cash for adaptation, and show why governments especially should allocate more for that purpose.
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By Wednesday, Afghans were again confronted by terror, when ISIS launched a 10-hour attack on the offices of international aid agency Save the Children in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, killing five people and wounding 24 more.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Tropical storm Dineo has caused in two deaths in Mozambique since it hit the coast of the southern African country late on Wednesday, and further casualties are expected, aid agency CARE said on Thursday.
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Several children told the aid agency that they were held by different criminal groups who demanded ransom from their families, while others were forced to work under almost slave-like conditions to pay for their journey.
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The yearly financial losses ranged from $174 per person in Somalia to $451 in the Central African Republic, said researchers at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) in Geneva, part of aid agency Norwegian Refugee Council.
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But the death of Mannan, who published gay rights journal Roopbaan and also worked for U.S. aid agency USAID, has caused particular alarm because his links to a powerful Western government offered no guarantee of safety.
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On Wednesday, at least five people were killed and 24 wounded as gunmen stormed an office of the Save the Children aid agency in the eastern city of Jalalabad in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health workers in western Niger are racing to contain an outbreak of Rift Valley fever that has killed at least 21 people over the past month, an aid agency said on Wednesday.
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Aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, working in Cox's Bazar at the southern tip of Bangladesh, estimated in the first month of violence, beginning at the end of August 20123, that at least 22012,29 Rohingya were killed.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - International aid agency Mercy Corps on Wednesday suspended its operations in two northeastern Nigerian states worst hit by Islamist insurgents after the army closed four of its offices in the region, the organization said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Syrians experience violence and destruction twice each week on average, an aid agency said on Thursday, highlighting the ongoing plight of civilians as the country's bloody civil war approaches its eighth year.
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The aid agency still needs $300 million to bring emergency assistance to a total of 4003 million people in Yemen, Somalia and northeast Nigeria as well as areas of South Sudan, where famine has already been declared.
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"Attacks and threats against humanitarians increased," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a bulletin, adding that there were also 18 injuries, 11 abductions and 38 arrests in 2015 involving aid agency staff.
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But achieving the goal is still possible without such risky technologies, if governments have the political will to push ahead with much faster emissions cuts, said Harjeet Singh, a climate policy advisor for aid agency ActionAid International.
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The move to the capital coincides with a push by Iraqi officials to begin legal proceedings to determine the fate of these women and children and end their prolonged detention, local officials and aid agency sources said.
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A boy plays with a plastic cup as he sits close to a puddle, while others queue for tea distributed by an aid agency at the refugee and migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Syrian refugee crisis is changing women's traditional roles with increasing numbers becoming heads of households and the main breadwinners, an international aid agency said on Saturday ahead of a global refugee summit.
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"It feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin," said David Evans, Middle East program director for the U.S. aid agency Mercy Corps, which said the most direct humanitarian route to Aleppo had been severed.
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The aid agency was able to enter Raqqa and Hassakeh provinces in late July for the first time in four years to see the destruction wrought by the jihadists, the fighting and U.S.-led coalition air strikes.
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The United States has designated the group a terrorist organization, and at least two aid groups had to scale back their work in Idlib last year after the United States' main aid agency put restrictions on grants.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's international aid agency is set to halt funding for sexual and reproductive health programs of organizations which acquiesce in President Donald Trump's ban on federal funding for foreign groups providing abortions or abortion support.
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The aid agency still needs $300 million to deliver emergency assistance to a total of five million people in Yemen, Somalia and northeast Nigeria as well as areas of South Sudan, where famine has already been declared.
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USAID, the federal government's aid agency, launched a funding program to help the country's coffee farmers bolster the quality of beans two years ago as part of a shift toward open economic and political relations with Myanmar.
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Inland sea of floodwater Meanwhile, rescue workers in Beira have described scenes of devastation that will require a "significant emergency response... including medical services and water and sanitation support," according to aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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Bob Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, highlighted these issues in a letter dated February 23 to the acting leader of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a small federal government aid agency established 2004.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The American government has slammed a major U.S. aid agency for lax oversight of renewable energy projects in Chile that stoked risks around the body's roughly $900 million of investment in the South American country.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen prevented a U.N. flight carrying aid agency staff from traveling to the Houthi-controled capital Sanaa on Tuesday because three international journalists were also aboard, aviation sources said.
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Children often bear the brunt of this deprivation: The harrowing statistic of 85,000 young children thought to have starved to death since 2015 was called a conservative estimate by aid agency Save the Children, which released the figure.
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ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth visit to Syria, said the aid agency was stepping up work to restore the water, health and power infrastructure in areas retaken by the government, to which civilians are returning.
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Dominik Stillhart, director of ICRC operations worldwide, said the aid agency was in touch with all sides to be able to deliver food and other supplies to civilians trapped in the besieged sector and to evacuate the wounded.
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Rearing worms, known as vermiculture, is a simple solution that sees farmers harvest the nutrients from worm waste, said Jemimah Njuki, an agriculture and environment expert in Nairobi with the International Development Research Centre, a Canadian aid agency.
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Alongside a plan to cut up to $2997bn from the State Department's budget over five years, the proposals included a closer alignment of the department and USAID—potentially involving a full takeover of the semi-independent aid agency.
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The British aid agency also said the international community must send a clear message that a coalition attack against Hodeidah, the strategic Red Sea entry point for some 70 percent of Yemen's food imports, would be "totally unacceptable".
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is working with the Palestinian Authority and Italian aid agency GVC to provide water to impoverished areas, has warned that up to 35,000 Palestinians are at risk because of the shortages.
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An official of a large Western aid agency told Reuters it had distributed more than 660 "dignity kits" for assault victims, besides counseling nearly 200 women who suffered trauma after the killing of a family member, usually male.
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Under the rules of the Paris Agreement, once it has come into effect, "legally a country cannot withdraw before the next five years are over", said Sven Harmeling, international climate change policy coordinator for the aid agency CARE.
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Fighting has since continued and intensified in towns such as Bangassou and Zemio, where militants last week shot and killed a baby in a hospital, forcing aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to temporarily suspend its operations there.
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Last week the army closed the office of another international aid agency - Action Against Hunger - in the region after accusing it of aiding the Boko Haram and Islamic State armed groups, which the government says are terrorist organizations.
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Developed by aid agency Plan India and Bangladeshi social enterprise Dnet, the Missing Child Alert (MCA) is a database programme - with the victim's data, including their name, photo and place of origin - which can shared between South Asian nations.
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Surveys of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres have shown at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in Rakhine state in the month after violence flared up on Aug 25, the aid group said last week.
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"My favorite kind of music is K-pop music, Korean music," exclaimed Tasnim during a recent video call, sitting alongside classmates from two schools in the Syrian capital run by aid agency United Nations Relief and Welfare Agency (UNRWA).
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No reference was given to any recognized aid agency working in Sudan or how the meals would be distributed -- despite the fact that a number of established charities have been working to help victims of the country's humanitarian crisis.
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Since Tuesday, attacks have forced thousands of civilians to flee to camps further north along the Turkish border and damaged four medical facilities, according to Idlib civil defense officials and a U.S. medical aid agency working in the area.
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seven suspected Boko Haram militants blew themselves on the outskirts of a northeast Nigerian city on Friday, a local aid agency said, in an attack witnesses said targeted refugees preparing to return to their home villages.
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"The number of people affected by humanitarian crises is increasing globally, which also increases mental health needs," Inka Weissbecker, global mental health and psychosocial adviser at aid agency International Medical Corps, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
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At a December hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, experts from government aid agency USAID and the State Department, after some hesitation, confirmed that South Sudanese government forces, as well as the opposition, had intentionally targeted aid workers.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing hundreds of millions of dollars to boost agriculture in Niger by improving water availability, upgrading road networks and developing markets will benefit at least four million Nigeriens, a U.S. aid agency said on Thursday.
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DAR ES SALAAM, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T anzania's decision to halt a multi-million dollar energy project to protect a wildlife sanctuary and farming land is a "victory" for vulnerable local communities, a global aid agency said.
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The director of a US federal aid agency said on Sunday that the Bahamas looks like "nuclear bombs were dropped" on it following the devastating Hurricane Dorian, which slammed into the islands as a Category 1853 storm last week.
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International aid agency Action Against Hunger said that a staff member and five others kidnapped in Nigeria last week had appeared in a video released on Wednesday evening and that they were "apparently in a good condition of health".
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One group, Kids4Peace, won a $800,000 grant for a project that "connects more than 1,000 youth and parents from East and West Jerusalem and neighboring West Bank communities in cross-border programs," according to an aid agency fact sheet.
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The British aid agency financed small early pilot projects that tested a mobile money service; they also gave Nick Hughes, the head of global payments at Vodafone, a $1.3 million grant to develop the system, which Vodafone then matched.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and foreign powers should revive the Middle East peace process at a time Palestinian youths are becoming increasingly disillusioned, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees urged on Monday.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from three years of war against Islamic State despite President Donald Trump cutting the foreign aid budget, a senior official in its main government aid agency has said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 100 lone children cross into Uganda each day as they flee conflict in South Sudan, walking for days on end with no food or family to sustain them, an aid agency said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not the millions designated by a U.N. aid agency whose funding has been slashed by the Trump administration, an Israeli official said on Friday.
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In March, state aid agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) injected $9.42 million into the island's infrastructure development while a group of Japanese food companies said they were pumping $500 million to process aquacultured products in certain Philippine regions, including Davao.
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I sat down to talk about the famines with Michael Bowers, the vice president of humanitarian leadership and response for Mercy Corps, a humanitarian aid agency operating in 40 countries around the world, including Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen.
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The aid agency called on all the warring sides in Yemen's three-year conflict to provide security guarantees so it can keep running its surgical, water and food assistance programs, which it said had been crippled by the partial evacuation.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A blockade of Yemen's key ports appeared to have been broken on Wednesday as ships arrived with food and fuel for the desperate population, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an humanitarian aid agency, told Reuters.
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But a project to train local leaders in conflict resolution, as well as establish joint projects, has settled more than 500 disputes - over issues from grazing rights to water access - in about 50 communities since 2013, aid agency Mercy Corps said.
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Emily David is part of the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Response Team, a group of about 40 people whose job it is to figure out how the aid agency will respond to a given crisis, and to figure it out fast.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's arid Sahel, a fertile breeding ground for militancy and organized crime, has been neglected by donors who must tackle the region's displacement crisis to stem radicalization and refugee flows, a leading aid agency said on Friday.
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JUBA (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen have raped 125 women during a 10-day spree of violence in the northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday, but local officials disputed the report.
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Last year, 24 million people globally fled at least temporarily to another area of their country because of a storm, flood, wildfire or other natural disaster, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), part of aid agency Norwegian Refugee Council.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Half of all Liberians think their West African nation could plunge back into conflict more than a decade after civil war ended, due to widespread corruption and rows over land, an aid agency said on Thursday.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nigeria, Singapore and India are among countries fuelling the gap between the super-rich and poor, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday as it launched an index spotlighting those nations doing least to bridge the divide.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed an office of the Save the Children aid agency in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and battled security forces surrounding the building, with at least three people killed and 20 wounded, officials said.
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Colleagues expressed their shock and disbelief at the death of Cox, a Cambridge University graduate who had spent a decade working for aid agency Oxfam in roles including head of humanitarian campaigning and was known for her work on women's issues.
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On Monday, aid agency Oxfam said wilder weather and fiercer wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes in the last decade, and the problem would worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate threats.
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Jalalabad, Afghanistan (CNN)ISIS militants attacked the offices of British aid agency Save the Children in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens in a 10-hour battle, according to local authorities.
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"Cash transfers are not currently a big part of the global aid package, but perhaps they should be," said Daniel Handel, an official with the American aid agency who proposed the experiment when he was an economic growth officer in Rwanda.
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According to figures from the U.S. government's aid agency USAID, in 2016 the United States provided some $13 billion in economic and military assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and $1.6 billion to states in East Asia and Oceania.
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The government, backed in the war by Russia and Iran, is seeking to crush the last major rebel enclave near the capital in a ferocious campaign that the aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says has killed more than 1,000 people.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - More than one of every 200 children aged under five at a camp in northeast Nigeria died in just two weeks in early August, according to Reuters calculations based on data from aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Friday.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's foreign aid agency was thrown into a sexual abuse scandal on Wednesday that it is trying to address in the aid sector after admitting "under five" of its staff members were reported for sexual harassment last year.
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International Rescue Committee, the leading aid agency headquartered in New York and led by former British foreign minister David Miliband, reckoned that up to two-thirds of the 300,000 Rohingya remaining in Myanmar will join the exodus to Bangladesh in the coming months.
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She said the Trump administration also has indicated it "will be reducing significantly" funding for government aid agency USAID and the State Department, both of which provide help to developing countries in building resilience to climate change shocks and pressures, she said.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece should urgently move children and other vulnerable migrants and refugees from its most overcrowded island camp to the mainland or to other EU countries for the sake of their mental and physical health, the MSF aid agency said on Monday.
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ZURICH/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The former head of the United Nations' Palestinians aid agency who resigned in the face of an inquiry into misconduct allegations has denied wrongdoing and said his agency was the victim of a political campaign designed to undermine it.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of Burundians are in need of humanitarian aid to help them cope with the consequences of civil unrest, flooding brought on by El Nino and a collapsing economy, an international aid agency said on Friday.
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"Some may say this is the one shot that the government has to extract a lot of money," Stefan Dercon, a professor at Oxford University and the chief economist at the British government's development aid agency, which supports the effort in Jordan.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost three in four Afghans who return home after seeking sanctuary abroad are forced to flee again due to fresh fighting, an aid agency said on Wednesday as it urged an end to deportations to the war-torn country.
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The New York Times reported Thursday that at least 22 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike on a Turkish observation post in Syria, with one Syrian aid agency telling the Times that the number of fatalities could be as high as 34.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are no signs that a blockade of Yemen's ports by a Saudi-led military coalition has eased to allow aid to reach communities increasingly at risk of starvation, the head of the U.S. government's aid agency said on Tuesday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees voiced concern on Friday that the U.S. administration's Middle East peace plan will spark further violence and said it had contingency measures in place to boost protection and assistance in the occupied territories.
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Global Health In a "value for money" assessment released this month, Britain's foreign aid agency gave top ratings to three organizations to which it donates: the World Bank; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.
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FREETOWN (Reuters) - A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, raising the possibility of further transmission as a regional epidemic appeared nearly over, according to an aid agency report.
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DHAKA/YANGON (Reuters) - The Bangladeshi government and the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday disputed Myanmar's claim it had repatriated five members of a Rohingya family, saying neither the government of Bangladesh nor the aid agency had any involvement in any such repatriation.
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Up to 10 hospitals have been reportedly damaged in the past 10 days, cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from access to health care, the aid agency said in a statement voicing alarm at the situation from Raqqa to Idlib and eastern Ghouta.
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Aid agency Oxfam said it rented the house and invited refugees from Somalia, Vietnam and Syria as guests to call on Trump and other world leaders to do more to support refugees as they gather in New York for the U.N. General Assembly this week.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the Syrian war nears the end of its fifth year, donors need to do more to help victims of the conflict rebuild their lives, an aid agency said ahead of an international pledging conference in London on Feb. 4.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cattle herders in West Africa are facing a severe lean season this year due to poor rains and insufficient plant growth, stoking the risk of conflict as they change migration patterns in search of food, an aid agency warned this week.
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"The bottom line is if you're a Palestinian, you don't have access to any of this," said David Harden, a former American aid agency official who managed projects for 11 years in the West Bank and Gaza and who had been briefed on the decision.
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In Mozambique, cyclones Idai and Kenneth killed more than 600 people earlier this year when they struck one after the other, with flooding wreaking havoc on the lives of more than 2 million in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, according to aid agency World Vision.
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Just days after the hotel siege ended, ISIS militants attacked the offices of British aid agency Save the Children in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens in a 10-hour battle, according to local authorities.
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On Monday night, Mr. Duterte lashed out at an American aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, which said it had deferred a decision on renewing assistance to the Philippines because of significant concerns about the rule of law and human rights in the country.
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"The construction sector has a significant number of people working informally - without the necessary paperwork - which didn't give them the proper protection for payment and possible employer abuse," said Elias Jourdi, a shelter specialist for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an international aid agency.
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The United Nations food aid agency said that it had distributed food to 580,000 people since the crisis erupted, but that it had so far received less than one-third of the $77 million it needs to aid a million people over six months.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new push to give farmers in developing countries better access to markets, led by the United Nations' food aid agency, could fall short of its goals if it does not prioritize helping poor farmers adapt to climate change, experts have warned.
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DUBAI/ADEN (Reuters) - An estimated 280,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015, an aid agency said on Wednesday, as the U.N. special envoy arrived in Yemen to pursue peace talks.
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In 2014 the Louis Berger Group, an engineering firm, along with its chairman and its president, pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding USAID, America's main aid agency, of billions of dollars by padding reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries over a period of 20 years.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $227 billion or nearly 403 percent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is on the rise among children, a global aid agency said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS – The already "staggering" number of 8.4 million Yemenis who don&apost know where their next meal will come from could double very quickly if ports in the rebel-held north are attacked and shut down, the head of the aid agency Oxfam America said Tuesday.
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" NEIL THORNS, DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY, CATHOLIC AID AGENCY CAFOD "The plummeting cost of renewable energy, the growth of jobs in the renewable energy industry, and the unequivocal call for action from people worldwide mean that the momentum in the fight to protect our common home is unstoppable.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water, given the huge numbers fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday, as authorities began moving people to camps to streamline the distribution of help.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinians for disrupting the peace process and heartily expressed his support for Washington's decision to slash funding to the UN aid agency, though others in Israel — including some Israel Defense Forces officials — believe the decision will have severe and negative ramifications.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agency Save the Children UK said on Monday it expected its income to fall by a sixth - 67 million pounds ($89 million) - this year after it withdrew from state funding amid claims of sexual misconduct by staff following a sector-wide sex scandal.
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Those American officials also believe that defunding the aid agency will give them leverage to force Palestinian and other Arab leaders to drop or reduce the demand for right of return, which is one of the greatest points of contention between Israeli and Palestinian officials, Mr. Harden said.
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Since 2016 it has created a high-level position dedicated to Christian-persecution issues; set up Hungary Helps, a foreign-aid agency that has reportedly given 90% of its assistance to Christians; and founded the International Conference on Christian Persecution, which representatives from 40 countries attended in late November.
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A group of senators wrote to Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, and a clutch of congressmen to the comptroller-general, taking aim at the same detail: the role of USAID, America's foreign-aid agency, in Macedonia, specifically its collaboration with the local arm of Mr Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF).
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The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, wants to split aid functions with health and humanitarian assistance delivered by a rump of USAID that would be absorbed into the State Department; the remainder of assistance would be delivered through a small independent aid agency that focuses on fostering economic growth.
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"If energy companies are serious about caring for our common home, they need to take the pope's advice and hurry up with shifting their priorities – and therefore their money – from fossil fuels to renewables," Neil Thorns, director of advocacy at Catholic aid agency CAFOD in London, said in a statement.
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With little fanfare, Mr. Trump signed a bill a little over a week ago that created a new foreign aid agency — the United States International Development Finance Corporation — and gave it authority to provide $20153 billion in loans, loan guarantees and insurance to companies willing to do business in developing nations.
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Mr. Harden said those American officials also believe that defunding the aid agency will give them leverage to force Palestinian and other Arab leaders to drop — or at least lessen — the demand for right of return, which is one of the greatest points of contention between Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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The announcement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis at the Pentagon came on the heels of a statement by the aid agency Save the Children on Wednesday that underscored the harrowing nature of the conflict: An estimated 85,5663 children might have died of hunger since the bombings began in 2015.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has yet to follow through on a threat to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in annual aid to three Central American nations from which migrants and refugees are moving toward the United States border, according to the head of the main American foreign aid agency.
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David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary who leads the International Rescue Committee aid agency, denounced that decision as a "historic assault on refugee resettlement to the United States, and a really catastrophic cut at a time there are more refugees around the world than ever before," The Associated Press reported.
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Now, United Nations officials appear to be backing away from airdrops, saying that the United Nations aid agency rules require permission from the Syrian government — something that is unlikely to happen because there is no reason to expect that the government would allow airdrops in areas where it has prohibited land convoys.
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"Irma is expected to sweep across the northern part of the country, so besides the strong winds and rain that could cause damage to houses, it is likely that many areas will be affected by flooding, landslides, and loss of livestock," said Jessica Pearl, Haiti country director for aid agency Mercy Corps.
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The director of a US federal aid agency told reporters on Sunday that the Bahamas looks like "nuclear bombs were dropped" as it begins to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian, which pummeled the islands with intense rain and strong winds for nearly two full days and caused the deaths of at least 50 people.
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Despite the risk of further flooding, some people have returned home here, tired of living in the squalor of encampments, where families share portable toilets provided by the government and a United States aid agency, use buckets to shower, cook on portable charcoal stoves, and survive on infrequent handouts of rice, pasta and beans.
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The vast majority of the five million refugees are descendants of Palestinians displaced in the early- to mid-20th century, and the United Nations aid agency officially considers all of them refugees, consistent with international law and United Nations refugee protocols, said Peter Mulrean, director of the Unrwa Representative Office at the United Nations.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE plans to nominate a top White House official to head an independent U.S. foreign aid agency, the White House announced Thursday.
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The RNC sued the aid agency in March, seeking two sets of communications: those between USAID officials and former aides at the State Department, as well as those between USAID and private domain names associated with Clinton, former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE and others including the Clinton Foundation.
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