Agriculture Report - Aid Workers Seek to Build 'Resilience' in Sahel 农业报道 - 援助组织试图培养萨赫勒地区人们的韧劲 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农

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By William Eagle Washington,DC 29 December 2006 A confluence of events has led to an increase in food and health needs in Zimbabwe. Like other parts of southern Africa, Zimbabwe has been the victim of drought, and a subsequent decline in crop produc

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By Selah Hennessy London 29 September 2009 An international aid group says East Africa is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in 10 years. The Britain-based agency, Oxfam, says climate change is leading to extreme drought, killing cattle and threat

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By Marianne Kearney Jakarta 15 June 2006 The United Nations has canceled an aid contract with a militant Muslim group chaired by Abu Bakar Bashir, who has just finished a jail term for terrorism-related offenses in Indonesia. The group was deliverin

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By Chad Bouchard Sarian, Indonesia 31 May 2006 Some rural areas of Indonesia's central-Java earthquake zone are still not getting food and supplies, four days after the 6.3 magnitude temblor killed more than 5,800 people and left 200,000 homeless. A

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 July 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is stepping up its humanitarian operations in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The ICRC says it must get aid to tens of thousands of people in

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 June 2008 The United Nations is lending its voice to widespread international condemnation of the decision by the Zimbabwean government of Robert Mugabe to suspend the delivery of aid by private agencies in the country. The

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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 24 April 2007 South Korean officials say their agreement Sunday to send rice to help North Korea feed its people will only go through if Pyongyang honors a pledge to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program. And P

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By Barry Newhouse Seoul 17 August 2006 North Korean soldiers reinforce a riverbank in Shinuiju, North Korea, Saturday, July 29, 2006 After initially turning down offers of emergency aid following devastating floods, North Korea has told South Korean

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By Lameck Masina Blantyre, Malawi 22 January 2008 In Malawi, the government, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders have introduced a new initiative to combat hunger. The move called Hunger Free is part of a worldwide campaign to eliminate h

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By Cathy Majtenyi Mekele 21 March 2006 The northern Ethiopian region, Tigray, is plagued with inconsistent rainfall, environmental degradation, poor quality soils and other problems, making the area p

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U.N. aid agencies are rushing aid to help thousands of people affected by devastating floods in Yemen. The agencies say many of the victims are without shelter, food and proper medical care. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva. The United Natio

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Charities Say Africa Drought Aid Delay Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives It's estimated that between 50,000 and 100,000 people died in the drought and food crisis that hit the Horn of Africa last year - more than half of them children under five. The U

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The International Committee of the Red Cross said it is increasing its aid to hundreds of thousands of destitute people in Somalia. It said drought, floods and the effects of 17 years of armed conflict and lawlessness have taken a terrible toll on t

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The United Nation's chief humanitarian official says efforts to fill the gaps left by the 13 international aid groups kicked out of Sudan are insufficient and that the upcoming rainy season could further complicate an already serious humanitarian si

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Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx Early afternoon at the Bab al-Salama Camp on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. Aid workers are distributing food to people waiting to become refugees in Turkey. The Turkish government is al

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By Robert Raffaele Washington 16 November 2009 World leaders at a U.N. summit on food security in Rome are vowing to take urgent action to eliminate global hunger. But they did not agree in their final declaration to a U.N. request for $44 billion a

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By Noel King Khartoum 03 October 2006 The African Union mission in Sudan has reported a flare-up in violence in southern Darfur. The AU says the former rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) has begun attacking civilians in Gereida, following clashes

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 August 2007 United Nations aid agencies say the distribution of humanitarian assistance to victims of Peru's devastating earthquake remains problematic. But they say the situation is beginning to ease. Lisa Schlein reports f

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U.S. President George Bush is getting a first hand look at the damage inflicted on his home state of Texas by Hurricane Ike. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports that the president traveled Tuesday to areas hardest hit by the storm. Marine One, with Presiden

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