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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
... warning network) as either highly or extremely food-insecure. A Reuters report of June 13 quoted Elisabeth Byrs, of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Seasonal rains have been poor or have failed in many parts of Ethiopia with dramatic effects on harvests in crop-producing areas, she explained, and the effects of the drought had doubled the numbers...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
... OCHA-New York, +1 917 367 5126, mobile +1 917 892 1679; John Nyaga, OCHA-NY, + 1 917 367 9262; Elisabeth Byrs, OCHA-Geneva, +41 22 917 2653, mobile, +41 79 473 4570. OCHA press releases are available at or www.reliefweb.int.
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An Inconvenient Blog (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Drought in Ethiopia has caused food shortages, killed livestock and more than doubled the number of people needing urgent humanitarian aid to 5 million, the United Nations said on Friday. “Seasonal rains have been poor or have failed in many parts of Ethiopia with dramatic effects on harvests in crop-producing areas,” said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman [...]
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
GENEVA, June 13 (Reuters) - Drought in Ethiopia has caused food shortages, killed livestock and more than doubled the number of people needing urgent humanitarian aid to 5 million, the United Nations said on Friday."Seasonal rains have been poor or have failed in many parts of Ethiopia with dramatic effects on harvests in crop-producing areas," said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Geneva - The UN warned Friday its humanitarian work in Zimbabwe was under threat if it could not rely on the help of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the field. The consequences would be very dramatic, said Elisabeth Byrs of the Office ...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... agencies have conducted operations in Zimbabwe with help from aid groups, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"If we don't have these NGOs to work with, the humanitarian programs of the U.N. cannot be carried out," she said.
Zimbabwe's social welfare minister, Nicholas Goche, said the aid groups were violating...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... his loyalists.U.N. agencies have conducted operations in Zimbabwe with help from aid groups, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs."If we don't have these NGOs to work with, the humanitarian programs of the U.N. cannot be carried out," she said.Zimbabwe's social welfare minister, Nicholas Goche, said the aid groups were violating...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... his loyalists.U.N. agencies have conducted operations in Zimbabwe with help from aid groups, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs."If we don't have these NGOs to work with, the humanitarian programs of the U.N. cannot be carried out," she said.Zimbabwe's social welfare minister, Nicholas Goche, said the aid groups were violating...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... if it could not rely on the help of the NGOs. "The consequences would be very dramatic," said Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva. "If we haven't these NGOs with whom the UN works then the humanitarian programme can't be carried out and it's the population that suffers," said Byrs. The European Commission, the biggest donor...
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International (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
MORE THAN 1 MILLION MYANMAR CYCLONE VICTIMS HAVE RECEIVED AID, SAYS UN New York, Jun 3 2008 3:00PM Some 1.3 million people affected by the deadly cyclone that battered Myanmar one month ago have received assistance, the humanitarian arm of the United Nations said today. In addition, the percentage of those reached in the Ayeyarwady Delta region had increased from 23 per cent to 49 per cent, Elisabeth...
