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04/04/11 Action Against Hunger ramps up its response to escalating crisis in the Ivory Coast
International humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger |ACF International is scaling up its activities in the Ivory Coast and is launching an emergency appeal in response to the escalating crisis.
As the crisis unfolds, enormous strains are being placed on local communities and the water and sanitation situation has become critical.
22/03/11 What's Hygiene Got To Do With Hunger
Daisy Nyaga is a Public Health Programme Manager with Action Against Hunger in Kenya. She works with families to improve their health and prevent illnesses like malaria, dysentery and cholera that kill millions of children every year and devastate families and entire communities. We sat down to talk about her work training families in good hygiene and sanitation practices in northeastern Kenya.
15/03/11 Action Against Hunger Steps Up Emergency Response
In response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation, ACF expands its nutrition and public health programmes in the west and on the border with Liberia
14/03/11 G8 Foreign Ministers must make humanitarian access to western Libya a priority as situation deteriorates, aid agencies say
Urgent humanitarian access to western Libya must be made a priority by G8 Foreign ministers attending Monday’s meetings, a coalition of leading aid groups has said.
08/03/11 Action Against Hunger Launches Aid Programmes at Tunisia/Libya Border
As thousands continue to flee the escalating violence in Libya, Action Against Hunger | ACF International has launched programmes to address the public health and sanitation needs of displaced people in Choucha refugee camp, eight kilometers away from Libya’s border with Tunisia.
03/03/11 A Field Diary
Philip James is Action Against Hunger’s Emergency Nutrition Coordinator, a job which regularly takes him to the world’s humanitarian hotspots. Follow Philip’s live updates as he reports from the border area in Liberia, where an estimated 20,000 refugees are staying in view of the tense situation in Ivory Coast.
02/03/11 ACF Dispatches Emergency Response Team to Tunisian/Libyan Border
As tens of thousands of people continue to flee towards the Tunisian border with Libya, Action Against Hunger | ACF International has dispatched an emergency response team to assess the nutrition and water and sanitation needs on the ground.
07/02/11 ACF expands programmes in Ivory Coast
The ongoing political stalemate triggered by contested elections in Ivory Coast has plunged the country into economic, political and social turmoil and led to a deteriorating humanitarian situation.
03/02/11 Zero Hunger: The Road Map to Success
A major new report from Action Against Hunger reveals why and how some countries have managed to reduce undernutrition, while others have not.
02/02/11 ACF Provides Humanitarian Assistance to Thousands Returning to Southern Sudan
Global humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger |ACF International is responding to the basic needs of nearly 35,000 people relocating to southern Sudan in the period surrounding the historic vote for independence from January 9-15, 2011. Southern Sudan has experienced an influx of nearly 200,000 people over the last several weeks, with thousands more expected to arrive in the coming weeks and months.
