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Aid situation worsens as Sudan fighting spreads
Desperately needed relief supplies are being confiscated by the warring parties in Sudan as fighting spreads to areas previously untouched by the 10-week-old conflict between top generals, aid agencies said on Friday.
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Air strikes, combat as one-week Sudan truce officially starts
Witnesses in the Sudanese capital reported clashes and air strikes minutes after a one-week ceasefire was to have come into force to let through life-saving humanitarian assistance.
Record 50 mln people displaced internally: Monitors
Conflict and disaster forced more than 33 million people to flee within their own countries last year, putting them at greater risk amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, monitors said on April 28.
Palestinian, Syrian refugees in Lebanon camps brace for virus
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and Syrian refugees living in overcrowded and rundown camps in Lebanon are bracing for the novel coronavirus as aid groups mobilize to help.
Lebanon is home to tens of thousands of Palestinians in camps that over the decades have become bustling neighborhoods and at least 1.5 million Syrians who have fled the war next door.
Richest countries are the least generous in supporting refugees: UN official
Many of the richest countries are the "least generous" in supporting refugees or displaced people, a U.N. official and humanitarian aid expert has said, adding that Europe and the U.S. are making "embarrassingly" small efforts in this regard.
The day after for refugee NGOs on Greece's islands
Nikos Tsakos may be 32 years old but he's only known what he wants to do when he grows up - what he's good at, the thing that will give his life meaning - for a few months. He started in the field he studied - information technology - but the firm he worked for in Athens went bankrupt and Nikos was forced to go back home, to the island of Chios.
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Norwegian Refugee Council Warns EU Against Closing of Borders
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned against the closing of European national borders and called on European leaders to agree instead on a credible collective response to the current migration crisis.
NGOs condemn donors over slow Gaza reconstruction
Six months after donors pledged billions of dollars (euros) for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a coalition of aid groups said April 13.
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