LIBYA and North Africa Unrest
The political protests and violent crackdown in Libya has caused nearly 250,000 people to flee, mainly into neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, and to a lesser degree into Niger.
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The political protests and violent crackdown in Libya has caused nearly 250,000 people to flee, mainly into neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, and to a lesser degree into Niger.
CARE warns that the mostly forgotten crisis in Côte d’Ivoire has the potential of escalating into a regional humanitarian disaster unless a larger-scale aid effort is put into place.
While the floodwaters and heavy rains that began in December last year have largely ceased, over a million Sri Lankans now face the difficult task of recovering from the devastation caused to their property and livelihoods.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (January 28, 2011) – 100 days after the first confirmed cases of cholera in Haiti, CARE continues to step up the emergency response in rural areas where death rates are alarmingly high and access to prevention and treatment still difficult.
The rain in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro began late on Wednesday, January 12th, and in a few hours had left over 650 dead and thousands homeless in eight counties.
CARE has provided urgently needed food and emergency supplies to 6,000 people in flood-ravaged Sri Lanka and we are rapidly scaling up our response.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (January 11, 2011) – When the earth shook in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, a humanitarian catastrophe without precedent followed. The earthquake hit Haiti in the heart, claiming more than 220,000 lives and destroying over 188,000 buildings. And…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (November 22, 2010) – As the cholera epidemic in Haiti continues to spread with lethal speed, CARE International stresses the need for a joint and long-term effort by the Haitian government and international partners to tackle the…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (November 11, 2010) – Haiti’s government reports a sharp increase in the number of Haitians killed and hospitalized by an outbreak of cholera. According to Haiti’s Ministry of Health, 11,125 people have been hospitalized with…
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