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16 April 2012
The Sahel suffers from chronic malnutrition. With the poor harvest and increasing food insecurity, there are serious concerns of a full-scale disaster this year. There are an estimated 20 million people living in vulnerable areas and 15.6 million of these people are affected by food insecurity. Malnutrition makes people, particularly children under five, weaker and more prone to disease. This crisis is further exacerbated because it is occurring in countries with very fragile health systems and services. WHO is calling for health interventions to urgently be scaled up, mainly in areas not yet covered, to complement on-going nutrition and food interventions. A total of US$ 14.2 million is required by WHO to cover the costs of the response operation over the next twelve months.
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13 March 2012
The civil uprising in Syria started with public demonstrations on 26 January 2011. Following mass protests in Daraa two months later, the situation quickly developed into a nationwide uprising. Since then, there have been clashes between government and opposition forces in several cities including the indiscriminate shelling of urban residential areas by government forces.
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