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The devastating, compounding impacts of economic depression,
COVID-19, the Beirut Port explosions and political instability
Patrick Moser
Geneva
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Patrick Moser’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridActing Before the Flood: An Anticipatory Humanitarian Action Pilot in Bangladesh, March 2021 - Ba...
ReliefWeb
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Anticipatory action to mitigate the humanitarian impact of monsoon flooding in Bangladesh in July 2020 reached more people, faster and at half the cost of a regular response. HELPING BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES This synthesis report is based on documents and research produced by OCHA and its partners.
Broken Dreams
unicef.org
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Central American children's dangerous journey to the United States
A wake-up call
UNICEF.org
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El Niño's impact on children
In Guinea, reaching out to root out Ebola
unicef.org
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Communities that were once considered off-limits to Ebola response teams are now doing their own outreach to help rid Guinea of the scourge.
Ebola: Getting to zero
unicef.org
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The impact of Ebola on children
In Nigeria, bringing the message of education for all
www.unicef.org
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In Nigeria, more than 10.5 million children are out of school, according to the most recent data, most of them in the north of the country, and many of them girls. UNICEF is helping persuade parents of the importance of getting children to school and ensuring girls are not left behind.
Rebuilding livelihoods in the wake of Haiyan's destruction
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TACLOBAN, Philippines (ILO-TV) -- As victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan struggle to pick up the pieces, the ILO is working hand-in-hand with Philippine authorities to help the most vulnerable regain their livelihoods and build back better. More information at: www.ilo.org/haiyan
Famed Jordan River Under Threat - Science News - redOrbit
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The once-famed, now heavily polluted Jordan River could cease to exist in 2011.
Defiant mates forced to call last orders
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THEY didn't stop serving when hurricane Katrina trashed New Orleans, and they defied looters by turning their bar into a fortress, with a shotgun-wielding transvestite as sentry at the door. But on Thursday, regulars at the Kajun Pub regretfully drank a final toast to their life in the Big Easy, and bowed to authorities' demands that they turn their backs on their stinking, wounded city. It took a heavily armed team of US marshals, who confiscated their weapons in a late-evening raid that ended with a barman in jail, to break the resistance of owner Joann Guidos.
Caribbean Net News: Hogs in Havana: Harley aficionados keep American classics on Cuban roads
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Bodies, loot and cars retrieved from Venezuela's flood-ravaged towns
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by Patrick Moser CARMEN DE URIA, Venezuela, Dec 28 (AFP) - The ghost towns along Venezuela's flood-wracked northern coastline returned to life Tuesday, as looters mingled with families retrieving the bodies of their loved ones. Armed with picks and shovels, a small group of people spent several hours digging out their loved one, among the tens of thousands feared buried under the tonnes of mud and rock that came crashing down mountainsides two weeks ago. An elderly woman, who had walked two hours to reach Carmen de Uria, cried as the decaying remains were placed
Amid Turtles And Sharks, Astronauts Train For Lunar Mission
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This handout from NASA shows flight surgeon Josef F. Schmid(R) and astronaut/aquanaut Jose M. Hernandez working 18 meters(60 feet) below the surface of the ocean to prepare future missions to the Moon. Inside the Aquarius Underwater Laboratory, two robotic arms telecommanded from thousands of kilometers (miles) away performed surgery on a simulated patient. The undersea venture is part of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Extreme Environment Mission Operations, which study moon-walking techniques, space medicine, and other space exploration activities. "Ultimately, what we are trying to do is develop operational concepts for lunar missions," said Bill Todd, the project manager for this NEEMO mission, the 12th since 2001.
Caribbean Net News: Trucks, choppers and mules deliver ballots for Haiti's election
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Salvadoran rescue efforts focus on earthquake survivors
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by Patrick Moser SANTA TECLA, El Salvador, Jan 17 (AFP) - With little hope left of finding survivors, rescue workers Wednesday focused on helping thousands of people made homeless by El Salvador's earthquake, as the appalling magnitude of the catastrophe became clear. Red Cross workers made their way slowly through rural areas Tuesday discovering more villages destroyed by Saturday's devastating earthquake, suggesting the death toll will continue to rise. So far, the quake has claimed 675 lives, but rescuers said at least 2,000 people were believed missing and feared dead. It would be a miracle to find survivors amid the destruction, they added.
US shuttle returns to space for first mission since Columbia disaster
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Cape Canaveral (AFP) Jul 26, 2005 - NASA insisted Discovery was ready for launch Tuesday despite an earlier postponement, but rain could cause another delay in the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Saddam Narrowly Missed Being Blown Up by Grenade on Surrender
Arab News
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AD DAWR, Iraq, 16 December 2003 - Saddam Hussein narrowly missed being blown up by a US grenade before he peered out from his dirt hole hideout and announced in English: "I am the president of Iraq and I want to negotiate," US army officers said yesterday."God Bless our Home," reads a poster hung in a tiny yard outside the adjacent squalid ramshackle mud hut in which the deposed tyrant apparently lived his last days of freedom.
Christianity Thrives in Marxist Ethiopia : Churches Are Still Filled Under 'Scientific Socialism'
LA Times
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A young Ethiopian, a hammer-and-sickle emblem pinned to the breast pocket of his party's uniform, or "comrade suit," bowed low as he kissed the heavy silver cross held out by a bearded bishop. Like about 10,000 other faithful, he braved the early morning downpours and the sticky mud outside Addis Ababa's St. Gabriel's Church to celebrate the monthly feast of the saint for which the church is named. Other party members stood among ordinary worshipers outside the church to collect alms from the Christian flock--bread for the poor and colorful velvet umbrellas for the priests of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who carry them as a sign of their authority.
Science / Medicine : Spraying Saves Millions From River Blindness
LA Times
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - The old man lifted his head to the cloudless sky, his eyes turned upward in the sightless stare of onchocerciasis--the crippling river-blindness disease that maims some 30 million people worldwide. "It started here," he said, stroking his chest with his huge, callused hands, "but then it went through my whole body and started eating my eyes." River blindness, known to some tribesmen in West Africa as "lion's eyes" because of the glassy look its victims acquire, is one of the world's major parasitic diseases.
Civil war, locusts compound Sudan's food crisis
Christian Science Monitor
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The granaries of Kassala, Wad Medeni, and Gadaref in sorghum-rich eastern Sudan are full. But 600 miles south, in the Narus refugee camp, children and adults await what seems certain starvation. Dozens of children die weekly in the rebel-controlled refugee camp. They are the children of Toposa nomads who trekked for days across the battle and famine fields of southern Sudan to reach the relative safety of Narus. The once proud and cattle-wealthy tribesmen are among an estimated 2 million southern Sudanese threatened with starvation.