UNCHO Special Reports
UNHCO Special Report: Sierra Leone

After having successfully ended its civil war in January 2002, Sierra Leone has long re-established security and has gone far into the process of restoring public services and setting the country on a strong footing for economic growth and poverty reduction.

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UNHCO Special Report: Somalia

Rising food prices have left nearly one billion people hungry. Higher food prices mean people are eating less and lower quality food, children are being taken out of school and farmers are being forced to migrate to live in slums.

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NEWS
Violence Displaces 1,000 People a Day

20, October 2008 (Darfur)

A surge of fighting in Sudan's isolated north Darfur region has displaced 24,000 people. Due to an increase in violence, a first wave of people has bandoned their homes after ...

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Kenya awarded degree for "Peacemaker"

17, October 2008 (Kenya)

Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were Friday awarded honorary degrees for a peace accord and the related ...

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UNHCO: Billions of Dollar for malaria's control

10, October 2008 (New York)

Malaria continues to be an endemic disease in the developing world, causing more than one million deaths every year, mostly among children living in sub-Saharan countries ...

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UNHCO project for free Hepatitis B- vaccines

2, October 2008 (Monrovia)

As part of its efforts in reducing infectious diseases, the UNHCO office said that it now providing free hepatitis-B vaccine shots to indigent babies in Africa. Hepatitis B is one of the major diseases ...

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