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Ban on aid agencies condemned - 10 August 2010
		Government officials, aid beneficiaries and humanitarian workers in south-central Somalia have condemned a ban imposed on three aid organizations by the Islamist group, Al Shabab, which controls most of the region.
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Straight Talk with Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO's director of HIV - 8 July 2010
		The UN World Health Organization (WHO) recently appointed Gottfried Hirnschall the new director of its HIV department. IRIN/PlusNews talked to him about the state of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care, and how countries need to respond to waning donor funding for HIV programmes.
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New Somaliland president sets sights on corruption - 2 July 2010
		Opposition leader Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud “Siilanyo” of the Peace, Unity and Development Party, has been elected president of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, after he won just under 50 percent of votes cast on 26 June, in the first democratic handover in the Horn of Africa. He will be inaugurated next month.
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Schools reopening in Afghanistan - 14 March 2010
		At least 240 schools have reopened mostly in the volatile south and southeast of Afghanistan over the past 18 months, the Ministry of Education (MoE) has reported. The MoE said 18 schools have been reopened in Ghazni Province, central Afghanistan, over the past few months.
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Interview with top government official on IDP camps, returns - 11 November 2009
		One of the more contentious issues in Sri Lanka this year has been the plight of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the north.
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Twenty cities most vulnerable to storm surges, sea level rises - 1 October 2009
		According to (yet another) new climate change report, this time from development think-tank CGD, these are the 20 cities where the most people will be at the greatest risk from sea level rise and storm surges in the developing world.
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Children need more support in Gaza - UNICEF head - 9 March 2009
		UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann M. Veneman recently paid a visit to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to assess the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with special focus on children. As of 5 February, 431 Palestinian children had died and 1,872 had been wounded in the 22-day Israeli offensive which ended on 18 January, according to the Gaza health ministry.
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“We are not moving as fast as I would like” - 16 February 2009
		President Ismail Omar Guelleh leads a resource-poor country struggling with energy and food shortages. In an interview with IRIN, he explained how these and other pressing issues are being dealt with.
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“The Somali people do not want any more fighting" - 12 February 2009
		Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was recently elected President of Somalia at a parliamentary meeting in Djibouti. Before returning to Mogadishu where he will appoint a prime minister and form a government, Ahmed talked to IRIN about the challenges ahead.
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World conference of humanitarian studies - 5 February 2009
		Academics, humanitarian analysts, practitioners and students are gathered in the Netherlands this week at the first conference of its kind. The World Conference of Humanitarian Studies is hosted by the University of Groningen and features over 60 panels and dozens of papers on a very broad range of humanitarian topics.
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