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SOMALIA - Conflict, drought force more children onto Hargeisa streets (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
HARGEISA, 22 October 2008 (IRIN) Conflict, drought and economic hardships have led to an unprecedented increase in the number of street children in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia's selfdeclared independent republic of Somaliland, with government and aid agencies calling for urgent steps ...
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KENYA - Hundreds displaced in "drought" clashes (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
nbsp;ISIOLO, 18 September 2008 (IRIN) At least six people have been killed and hundreds displaced following days of fighting over water and pasture along the Isiolo and Samburu district border as droughtrelated conflict escalated in northern Kenya ...
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Joint study identifies humanitarian hotspots and warns of dire consequences unless world leaders act now (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ7HRG5C?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P  India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are among the pivotal states identified as climate change "hotspots" countries particularly vulnerable to the increase in extreme drought, flooding, and cyclones expected in the coming ...
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EAST AFRICA Help pastoralists adapt to climate change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79883 NAIROBI, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semiarid lands (ASAL) need to be empowered to adapt to, and survive, climate change, a report by a humanitarian organisation says. "Pastoralists across East ...
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AFGHANISTAN Severe drought and food price increases cause malnutrition and disease (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ONIN7HJP8H?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Afghanistan is experiencing its most severe drought in eight years, with farming communities in the northern provinces being the hardest hit. In these areas where crops and livestock are dependent on rainfall rather ...
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Somalia, Drought, Fighting Worsens Situation of 'Ogaden Refugees' (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808120869.html UN Integrated Regional Information Networks 12 August 2008 Posted to the web 12 August 2008 Nairobi Drought and recent fighting around the town of Beletweyne, in central Somalia's Hiiraan region, have aggravated the plight ...
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Somalia faces dire crossroads as insecurity and drought combine (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Source: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Date: 18 Jul 2008 LONDON \ The United Nations World Food Programme said today that attacks on aid workers on the ground and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia, are jeopardising ...
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Drought threatens Iraq's crops and water supply (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
SALLY BUZBEE Thu Jul 10, 2:15 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080710/aponremiea/iraqdroughtyear;ylt=AtGIE3lk kC4y9ukkZ2hLiGs0NUE  BAGHDAD It's been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq a dry spell that has devastated the country's crucial ...
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Climate, Arms, Drugs Make Lethal Mix In Sahel (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48660/story.htm SENEGAL: June 6, 2008 \\ (Additional reporting by Mathieu Bonkoungou in Ouagadougou and Tiemoko Diallo in Bamako; Editing by Giles Elgood) \\ \\ Story by Pascal Fletcher \\ {}DAKAR Climate change, fighting over water and land ...
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Hunger crisis looming in Horn of Africa if rains fail this month (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Source: CARE Date: 17 Apr 2008 Geneva, April 17, 2008 \ An estimated 14 million people in the Horn of Africa are facing a food emergency just two years following the worst drought in decades, CARE International warned ...
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