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Jan 5

Yemen is the crisis that the world forgot

ByCARE Australia January 5, 2016 1 comment

Originally published in the Herald Sun and Herald Sun online. Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the…

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Dec 21

Ethiopia drought: 10 million people in need of food assistance

ByCARE Australia December 21, 2015 0 comments

More than 10 million people in Ethiopia are in need of emergency food assistance because of extreme drought caused by the global weather phenomenon El Nino, according to revised figures released by the Ethiopian government last week. “Right now families in drought-stricken areas are about to exhaust all available resources…

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Oct 9

Out of school and into marriage: 39,000 girls forced to marry every day

ByCARE Australia October 9, 2015 0 comments

Girls in 26 countries are more likely to be forced into marriage than to enroll in secondary school, research from CARE has found. The report, Vows of Poverty, has been released to mark the International Day of the Girl on 11 October and provides a snapshot of the forces that…

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Sep 11

El Nino drought looms for cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu

ByCARE Australia September 11, 2015 0 comments

Six months after Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu, there are fears an El Nino-linked drought could create major food shortages in parts of the country, aid organisation CARE Australia warns.

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