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02/06/11 Action Against Hunger prepares for worsening crisis as rising tensions displace tens of thousands in Southern Sudan
As the date for southern independence draws near, tensions in Sudan are rising steadily and tens of thousands of people have fled their homes. Humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger has launched an emergency response to provide families with nutritional assistance and immediate access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
19/05/11 Malnutrition in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala
The most severe time of year for Dona Victoria and her is between May and August. This is the hunger season. During these months food prices are extremely high and merchants cease trading in the village because people cannot afford to buy their goods. As a result villagers have to walk for two hours or more to the city of Jocotan, where they pay double the normal price for maize.
15/05/11 Action Against Hunger Statement on working together towards a step change in the way DFID responds
ACF regards the HERR report as a much needed, global humanitarian and development effort. We believe that by adopting key recommendations made in this report, DFID will be in an unrivalled position to maintain and improve its effective responses to the most challenging humanitarian crises, integrate further the humanitarian and development agendas, and instigate transformational changes which are required in the humanitarian system.
12/05/11 Action Against Hunger ramps up response to humanitarian crisis in Libya
Three months after the start of conflict in Libya, thousands of displaced families are still crossing the Libyan-Tunisian border to escape the violence amid a decline in the pace of repatriations. International organisation Action Against Hunger continues its humanitarian programmes in Tunisia to meet the needs of displaced families who are forced to remain in the Chouchen camp indefinitely.
19/04/11 Action Against Hunger Warns of Potential Food Crisis
Thousands of families in Guatemala are facing severe food shortages due to a reduction in crops and rising food prices, warns humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger | ACF International. Over the past two years Guatemala has experienced a series of heavy rains and draught, which has led to the destruction of harvests and soaring food prices in local markets. According to the organisation’s latest report, Food Security and Nutrition in the Dry Corridor 2011, this is leaving thousands of...
15/04/11 Action Against Hunger Scales up Programmes to Help Communities Rebuild their Lives
As political unrest in the Ivory Coast begins to calm, the humanitarian crisis is far from over. International humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger | ACF International continues to scale up its programmes to help rebuild communities’ livelihoods over the next months.
06/04/11 Action Against Hunger deploys additional emergency resources to Ivory Coast
As the Ivory Coast plunges into a state of emergency, international humanitarian organisation Action Against Hunger | ACF International is transporting 24 tons of resources to the Western city of Man to reinforce its emergency response.
A flight will take off from France tonight, carrying 12 tons of materials. The crew will transport pumps, water purification kits, water storage kits, high energy nutritional foods as well as radios and satellite phones. A further 12 tons of resources will...
05/04/11 Action Against Hunger increases presence in Ivory Coast in response to worsening humanitarian emergency
As the Ivory Coast plunges deeper into humanitarian crisis, with a massacre occurring in the town of Duékoué, Action Against Hunger | ACF International is providing further emergency assistance to families fleeing the conflict.
The Duékoué massacre between 27 and 29 March has become the symbol of the recent violence in Ivory Coast. Action Against Hunger, present in the country since 2002, has launched an emergency operation, sending emergency response teams and vital relief supplies to...
04/04/11 An interview with our Policy Advisor on how the world can reduce undernutrition
An expert with over 10 years experience in food security and international aid, Morwenna co-authored Action Against Hunger’s latest publication, Undernutrition: What Works. We talk to Morwenna about her latest research and what can be learnt from countries that have been successful in reducing undernutrition.
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.
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