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19-11-2009
Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This will not only help tackle the rapid deforestation but will also generate income for the poor.
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Image: Putting Nepal's forests in the hands of community people/ Photo credit: Community Forestry Workshop
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11-11-2009
Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor African countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to soaring food prices. This was revealed in a new report released by FAO.
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Image: Grain prices in Mali are still far higher than before the food price crisis/ Photo credit: UN News
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05-11-2009
The US-sponsored global technology and innovation fund will invest million of dollars in projects that will promote technological development and innovations in the Muslim-majority countries. Critics, however, say that the real intention is to get more access to the huge market in these countries.
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Image: Eligible projects would create opportunities in areas like ICT/ Photo credit: SciDev
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28-10-2009
In Sri Lanka's crucial textile industry, thousands of jobs are under threat following EU report over alleged human rights abuses and the failure to implement human rights conventions in the country. Officials have suggested that a key trade concession worth more than US$100 million could be withdrawn.
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Image: By 2008, the EU became Sri Lanka's biggest export destination for garments/ Photo credit: IRIN
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26-10-2009
Sri Lankan government has tightened its grip on the internally displaced people living in camps. Donors are saying that they are less likely to provide funding if the government continues to restrict their freedom of movement.
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Image: Thousands of Tamil civilians continue to languish in IDP camps such as this one in Vavuniya/ Photo credit: IRIN
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21-10-2009
Failure of monsoon for four consecutive seasons has left the trail of drought, hunger and disease not only in Kenya, but throughout the Horn of Africa. Some 24 million affected people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
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Image: A nomadic boy carries a water container towards his camels/ Photo credit: UNICEF
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06-10-2009
The Sri Lankan government says it is taking measures to ensure that the camps housing refugees will cope with the onset of monsoon rains. The government is also planning to tap foreign donors to raise more cash to look after over 250,000 displaced people.
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Image: It's feared that civilians could suffer when the monsoon arrives/ Photo credit: AFP
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05-10-2009
The World Food Programme’s budget for Bangladesh is going to be severely affected due to lack of funding by donors. The global economic downturn is taking its toll on the UN agency that is heavily dependent on aid from wealthy nations.
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Image: Shuili and her daughter depend on food rations from the UN not to face starvation/ Photo credit: Al Jazeera
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29-09-2009
Mostly inhabited by minority Tamil community, Vakarai is considered located on a ‘fault line’ of disasters. This Sri Lankan fishing village has seen the worst of tsunami and the war between government troops and LTTE, but it is now slowly reconstructing itself.
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Image: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Bernard Savage during the Vakarai school opening/ Photo credit: IPS
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27-09-2009
At least 10 million people in developing nations, including Nepal in South Asia, will get access to free healthcare, in an aid deal spearheaded by UK PM Gordon Brown. In Nepal, infant and child mortality rates are very high.
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Image: Malawi is one of the countries to benefit from the aid deal/ Photo credit: AFP
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